To provide assistance to small communities with ground water radium contamination.

Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to assist local governments in demonstrating mitigation of radium contamination in groundwater where such groundwater is used as a source of public drinking water in small communities and the contamination exceeds the level established under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992 for such program.

 
HR 978 IH
101st CONGRESS
1st Session
 H. R. 978
To provide assistance to small communities with ground water radium
contamination.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 9, 1989
Mr. HASTERT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To provide assistance to small communities with ground water radium
contamination.
  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
  States of America in Congress assembled,
RADIUM REMOVAL DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
  SECTION 1. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in
  cooperation with State public authorities, may assist local governments
  in demonstrating mitigation of radium contamination in ground water. Upon
  application of any State public authority, the Administrator may make a
  grant to that authority for such purposes. Assistance provided pursuant to
  this section shall be used for financing the acquisition and installation
  of ground water treatment technologies needed to remove radium from ground
  water used as a source of public drinking water for residents of small
  communities under the jurisdiction of such local governments.
LEVEL OF CONTAMINATION
  SEC. 2. A grant may only be made under section 1 for removal of radium
  from ground water if the level of contamination from such radium exceeds
  the maximum contaminant level for radium established under title XIV of
  the Public Health Service Act (relating to safe drinking water).
PURPOSES OF GRANTS
  SEC. 3. Funds made available through grants under section 1 may only be
  used by the grant recipient for one or both of the following purposes:
  (1) Providing insurance or prepaying interest for local obligations issued by
  a local government to finance the acquisition and installation of treatment
  technologies described in section 1.
  (2) Paying for the costs of administration for establishment and operation
  by such authority of a program to provide financing for such acquisition
  and installation.
DEFINITIONS
  SEC. 4. For purposes of this Act, the term--
  (1) `small community' means a political subdivision of a State the population
  of which does not exceed twenty thousand individuals; and
  (2) `State public authority' means an agency or instrumentality of a State
  which is established for the purposes of assisting local governments in
  financing capital improvements on a statewide or regional basis.
AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
  SEC. 5. The following sums are authorized to be appropriated to carry out
  this Act:
Fiscal year
--Amount
1990
--$6,000,000
1991
--7,000,000
1992
--7,000,000