Section 144-226-4 - CROSS CONNECTION CONTROL PROGRAMSA. All suppliers serving a community population with one or more low or high hazard service connections or a non-community population with one or more high hazard service connections shall submit a written cross-connection control program to the Department for approval within sixty (60) days of the date the system is established or service is extended to the low or high hazard connection(s). The cross-connection control program shall be implemented and in effect within a period not to exceed nine (9) months of the date the system is established or service is extended to a low or high-hazard connection.B. Cross connection control programs, approvals, and device testing records must be available for review by the Department's field inspectors during regular sanitary survey or other on-site inspections.C. The Department specifically reserves the right to inspect all cross-connections. The supplier shall be administratively responsible for the corrections necessary as a result of a Departmental inspection. The owner and/or supplier shall comply with any Departmental or supplier's orders issued as a result of said inspections of the water system.D. Cross connection control programs shall include these sections (The model program in the EPA Cross Connection Control Manual can be used as a reference for creating these sections, EPA 816-R-03-002, available at www.epa.gov/safewater): 8. Cross Connection Approvals;12. Fees and Charges Addendum
E. Suppliers shall review their cross connection control programs at least every five years. Updates shall be made as needed. Updated cross connection control programs shall be submitted to and approved by the Department.10- 144 C.M.R. ch. 226, § 4