Lead Poisoning

Course outcome addressed in this Assignment:

PA201-3: Communicate the results of legal research to appropriate parties.

GEL-1.1: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.

Instructions

For this Assignment you will be locating a federal regulation. There are several ways you can locate regulations. You can choose to use federal and state government websites. Sometimes you will find that the agency’s website is the best source for finding and understanding current regulations. You can also search on Westlaw.

Remember regulations are different from statutes. They are not in the United States Code or the state codes. Regulations are created by agencies. Federal regulations are published in the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.). State regulations are published in the state administrative law collection.

For the following problem you are going to be asked to draft a short letter with your research findings. You are representing a local group of citizens here in town regarding their drinking water. The residents are worried that the water that they are drinking may have too high of lead levels and may not be safe. I believe the place to start on this issue would be the EPA’s website. I need to know what the regulation or regulations are that regulate lead in drinking water. Please discuss the enabling legislation for the regulation and the main parts of the regulation. Please then tell us how the regulation would apply to a small town of about 20,000 people.

Once you have done your research, please put all the findings from above into a letter addressed to the town manager, Mike Jones. Make sure to properly cite the regulation. If possible also provide links to the website where you found your information.

In addition to fulfilling the specifics of the Assignment, a successful paper must also meet the following criteria:

Grading

Please review the Assignment grading rubric in for more information on how your Assignment will be graded.

Submitting Your Work

Put your responses in a Microsoft Word document. Save it in a location and with the proper naming convention: username-Course Name-section-Unit x_Assignment.doc (username is your Kaplan username, section is your course section, x is your Unit number). When you are ready to submit it, go to the Dropbox and complete the steps below:

1. Click the link that says “Submit an Assignment.”
2. In the “Submit to Basket” menu, select Unit x: Assignment.
3. In the “Comments” field, make sure to add at least the title of your paper.
4. Click the “Add Attachments” button.
5. Follow the steps listed to attach your Word document.

To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted work.