Lead Contamination Control Act + Lead & Copper Rule Exam 2025 With 100% Correct Answers

Lead Contamination Control Act +
Lead & Copper Rule Exam 2025 With
100% Correct Answers

Lead Contamination Control Act (LCCA) Purpose + Background - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Purpose:
Reduce lead exposures and associated risks by reducing lead levels in drinking water at schools
and childcare centers.

-Children under age of 6 years are at greatest risk

-The act required replacement, repair, or removal of water-coolers that had lead

-AF implemented Lead Assessment Program in 1989, and compliance was achieved by the early
90's



LCCA resulted in these impacts (3) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. EPA Guidance: Some state level
enforcement

2. Lead removed from water coolers

3. CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program



LCCA Action Level - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔.020 mg/L (20ppb)



LCCA Background --> AFI 48-144, Drinking Water Surveillance Program: Requirements -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Requires BE to ensure initial sampling for lead is conducted at CDCs, SAPs
(schools), DoDDs (daycare), and DDESs prior to opening new facilities and when lines or fixtures
are modified, added, or replaced.



Lead and Copper Rule: Which water systems need to be samples? Exceeding AL means? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Required CWSs and NTNCWs to monitor for lead and copper.

Exceeding the AL is NOT a violation, but triggers action.