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Bill Signed on Water Test foi•romium . C° I�u �n A E MLP <br /> Page 1 of 4 T <br /> IG4 ER <br /> q t T <br /> — w . I_ �C3Ve r,.. .inLl <br /> Home I Archives I Print Edition I Discussions Advertise Feedback <br /> News Business Sports Saturday, September 30, 2000 1 g Print this story <br /> Politics Travel Commentary <br /> Entertainment Classifieds Shopping <br /> music,movies,a rt, AJoJobs,homes,tar,, Bi[( Signed on Water Test for <br /> Chromium <br /> " ■ Health: Measure sets January 2002 deadline for <br /> " state regulators to report levels of a toxic form of <br /> TOP STORIES the substance in drinking wells. <br /> • L.A. County Workers to Start 1-Day Strikes By ANDREW_ BLANKSTFiti Times StaP Writer <br /> • For Economic Data U.S. May Merge L.A., <br /> Orange Counties <br /> • COLUMN ONE: Success From the Ground Up As concern rises that chromium 6 poses a public <br /> MORE health threat, Gov. Gray Davis has signed legislation <br /> Breaking Health orange requiring state regulators to speed up testing of local <br /> News Highway 1 Coun drinking water wells. <br /> Nation & Science valley SB 2127, signed late Thursday, gives the state <br /> World Ventura Department of Health Services until January State rt Local Coun p 2002 to <br /> report to the governor and the state Legislature on <br /> the amount of chromium 6 in the San Fernando <br /> Classifieds Find a home,car,rental,job,2et,merchandise, Valley aquifer, which supplies up to 15% of the <br /> auction,boat.plane or Ry Place an Ad <br /> drinking water for Los Angeles, as well as water for <br /> L.A. Times Subscription Services Subscribe,Change of the cities of Burbank and San Fernando. <br /> Address,Vacation stool,suspend Deli erv,College Discount,Gift The agency also faces the same deadline to <br /> Subscriptiofn,Mail Subscriptions,FA <br /> assess the health threat of chromium 6 statewide. <br /> Print Edition Advertisements See this week's ads The chemical, a byproduct of metal-plating and <br /> other industrial processes, is classified as a <br /> OTHER EDITIONS carcinogen when inhaled as particles or fumes, but <br /> Print Edition,Orange County, Valley Ventura County, its health risk it poses in water is still debated b <br /> National,Community Papers y <br /> experts. <br /> Books Columnists Crossword Decades of operation by defense contractors <br /> Food Education Horoscope have made the Valley a hot zone for chemical <br /> Health Obituaries Lottery contamination. Parts of Burbank, Glendale and ' <br /> HiehwaV 7 Religion Readine by 9 North Hollywood were declared a federal Superfund <br /> Real Estate Science Traffic <br /> SO.CaL. Living Special Reports Weather cleanup site in 1986. <br /> Sunday Opinion Times Poll SME MAP "While the study will focus on the San Fernando <br /> Ameritrade Valley, its conclusions, particularly with regard to <br /> health impacts, will be relevant statewide," said the <br /> bill's author, state Sen. Adam Schiff(D-Burbank). <br /> Y ' F <br /> But Sen. Tom Hayden (D-Los Angeles) said the <br /> new law doesn't go far enough to protect public <br /> safety. <br /> "The Schiff bill is well intended and is a prod to <br /> Htrtzl3j P-irisre <br /> [the Department of Health Services] to get moving," <br />