2. The Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Drinking Water Quality Institute, shall adopt, pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations that shall provide that the Consumer Confidence Report, in addition to meeting the specific requirements of the “Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996,” shall set forth the environmental and health information concerning the drinking water provided by the public community water system in a format designed to make this information easily accessible and understandable to all customers of the public community water system. These rules and regulations shall include, but need not be limited to, provisions requiring the Consumer Confidence Report to be formatted in such a way that the statement required pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § s.141.154(a) shall be included in bold print within the header of any chart displaying levels of detection and maximum contaminant levels for contaminants included in the Consumer Confidence Report.

L.1999,c.362,s.2.