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Lead Service Line Inventory (LSLI) and Replacement Templates and Documents

Document Title	Document Description
Fact Sheet – Lead Service Line Inventory Requirements	Fact sheet to provide a high-level overview of the lead service line inventory requirements
Lead Service Line Inventory Spreadsheet	Spreadsheet to be used by community and non-transient, non-community public water systems in documenting their water system’s Lead Service Line Inventories
EPA Guidance: Developing and Maintaining a Service Line Inventory: Small Entity Compliance Guide	This guide is designed for owners and operators of small community water systems (CWSs) and non-transient non-community water systems (NTNCWSs). All CWSs and NTNCWSs must develop and maintain an inventory of each service line in their distribution system to comply with the LCRR. Water systems must submit their initial inventories to their State1 by October 16, 2024. Systems that might find this guide useful include those that operate the following: Small towns; Rural water districts; Tribal waters systems; Manufactured housing parks; Homeowners associations; Small private water systems; and Factories, schools, and religious institutions that have their own water supplies.
EPA Guidance: Guidance for Developing and Maintaining a Service Line Inventory	The purpose of this document is to guide water systems as they develop and maintain service line inventories and to provide states with needed information for oversight and reporting to EPA. The guidance contained in this document can also position water systems to begin replacing LSLs as soon as possible. Locating LSLs is the first and critical step to replacing them; however, water systems do not need to complete the entire inventory process before designing and implementing their LSLR programs. This guidance covers the lifecycle of the inventory, including inventory creation, material investigations, system reporting, state review, public accessibility of service line information, and service line consumer notification. In addition, the guidance provides best practices, case studies, and templates related to topics such as the classification of unknowns, goosenecks, and galvanized plumbing; best practices for service line material investigations; inventory form and format; inventory accessibility; tools to support inventory development and data tracking; and ways to prioritize service line investigations.

Lead Service Line Inventory Customer Driven Data

Document Title	Document Description
Fact Sheet – Customer Outreach Packet	Customer and private assistance to Systems is an important component in completing the service line inventory. NMED has created several customer communication templates that Systems can use for outreach to their customers. Systems may provide the three documents outlined below to customers via mail, email, or other methods.
Customer Outreach Letter Template	Provides a brief overview of the health effects of lead in drinking water and why customer service line identification is important, contains a customer survey and web links for additional information. The template Word file can be edited to include your system contact information and any additional information you’d like to include.
Customer Self-Identify Drinking Water Service Line Survey Template	The survey is a guidance tool for customers to self-assess and verify the material of customer-owned service lines. The survey is then returned to the System. The template should be downloaded either as a Word file or a fill-able PDF. Make sure to edit the document to include how to submit the completed survey and system contact information.
Survey guidance-Water Service Line Material Identification	Explains how to locate the drinking water service line and identify the line material. Make sure to include this document with the customer service line survey.

LCRR School and Childcare Facility Sampling

Document Title	Document Description
Fact Sheet – Developing an LCRR School and Childcare Facility Monitoring list	Community public water systems must create, contact the facilities, and maintain a list of all elementary schools and childcare facilities they serve, to comply with the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR). This list will need to be compiled by October 16, 2024, and submitted to NMED Drinking Water Bureau, in accordance with Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) §141.92(a)(1).
Fact Sheet – LCRR Monitoring for lead in schools and childcare facilities	The LCRR requires that all community water systems conduct directed public education and lead monitoring at the schools and childcare facilities they serve if those schools or childcare facilities were constructed prior to January 1, 2014 or the date the State adopted standards that meet the definition of lead free in accordance with Section 1417 of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Early Childhood Education & Care Department List of Licensed Childcare Facilities (Excel List)	List of licensed Childcare facilities in New Mexico, provided by the Early Childhood Education & Care Department (ECECD). Additional information from ECECD can be found on their website: https://www.nmececd.org/child-care-assistance/

Available Funding for LCRR Projects

Document Title	Document Description
Federal Funds for Drinking Water Infrastructure Fact sheet	The IIJA, also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), provides five years of infrastructure funding for New Mexico Public Water Systems. This funding will be delivered through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF), which is jointly administered by the New Mexico Finance Authority (NMFA) and the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED).
DWB Infrastructure Funding Information	Webpage to provide comprehensive information about infrastructure and project funding resources
DWSRF and BIL Funding Pre-application	Pre-application for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding. Submitting a pre-application is not binding. Submitting a pre-application provides DWB with basic information that will help provide infrastructure funding assistance to interested public water systems.

LCRR Public Notice Template Documents

Document Title	Document Description
Fact Sheet – Requirements for Tier 1 Public Notice Following a Lead Action Level Exceedance	This fact sheet provides an overview of the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) requirements following a lead ALE for timing, content, and delivery of Tier 1 PN and updated requirements for PE materials. You must also continue to provide PE materials to customers within 60 days after the end of the monitoring period as required by the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR). Starting October 16, 2024, you must use the updated lead health effects language in your PE materials.
Tier 1 Lead Public Notice Lead Instructions and Template	Beginning October 16, 2024, an exceedance of the action level for lead requires Tier 1 public notification. This applies to any community water system or non-transient non-community water system. You must provide public notice to persons served as soon as practical but no more than 24 hours after learning of the lead Action Level Exceedance (ALE). During this time, you must also provide a copy of the notice to EPA and your State. You must provide the notice that can reach all persons using one or more of the following methods to deliver the notice to consumers: · Broadcast Media, such as radio and television. · Hand delivery. · Posting in conspicuous locations throughout your water service area. · Another method approved in writing by your State.
Lead Tier 1 Public Notice Certification Template	The public water system, within 10 days of completing the public notification requirements for the initial public notice and any repeat notices, must submit to the primary agency a certification that it has fully complied with the public notification regulations.
Consumer Notice of Tap Water Result	The form is used to notify customers of the lead results in the drinking water where samples were collected. Systems are required to send lead results to consumers within 30 days of receiving the test results from the laboratory. Systems are also required to submit one copy of this form, along with the Lead Consumer Notice Certification Form to NMED, no later than 90 days after the end of your monitoring period.
Fact Sheet – Public Notification of Known or Potential Service Line Containing Lead	Under the 2021 Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR), water systems must provide people with specific information about their service lines. This requirement begins on October 16, 2024. Since this is a new regulatory requirement, EPA recommends water systems plan ahead to ensure readiness to comply with the new requirements. This fact sheet provides an overview of the EPA’s requirements for content, delivery, and timing of this notification.
Confirmed Lead Service Line Public Notice Template	To be used when a public water system confirms the presence of lead service lines.
Confirmed Galvanized Service Line Requiring Replacement Public Notice Template	To be used when a public water system confirms the presence of galvanized lead service lines that require replacement.
Unknown Service line Material Public Notice Template	To be used when a public water system contains service lines with unknown materials.

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