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May 3, 2016

Inslee wants funding for lead testing in schools

By WALKER ORENSTEIN
Associated Press

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday ordered a review of an unenforced and unfunded rule requiring schools to test water for lead following a week where unsafe levels of the toxic chemical were found in the drinking water at 13 Tacoma schools.

The state rule was passed in 2009, but it was never given money to be implemented. Inslee's order directs the state Department of Health to estimate the cost of testing every school for lead, and it asks the department to bring a proposal to the Legislature for doing so.


 
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