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I am Ronnie Levin. I have been studying the exposures and health effects of lead upon US children for 40 years. I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency for over 37 years, during which I attained national status in several areas. I was a key writer of EPA’s regulation of lead in gasoline, which was the major environmental achievement of the second half of the 20th century. I wrote EPA’s regulation of lead in drinking water and marshaled the regulation through the agency. I also published 5 critical articles linking waterborne disease outbreaks to a mundane measure of water quality – turbidity. These analyses have formed the foundation for EPA’s enhanced turbidity standard.

The methods and analyses developed for these 2 regulations have set the standards for EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses, for benefit analysis in general, and for health valuations. These 2 regulations reduced the lead exposures of all Americans (gasoline rule), with an additional 30 million US children having their lead exposures further reduced by restricting lead contamination of drinking water. 200 million Americans served by public drinking water supplies have benefited from my achievements.