Small Community Options for Regulatory Equity Act of 2010 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require states exercising primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems to exempt any nonprofit small public water system (serving 10,000 or fewer persons) that so requests in accordance with this Act from the requirements of any national primary drinking water regulation for naturally occurring contaminants, including arsenic, radon, radium, uranium, and specified disinfection byproducts.
Requires exemption requests to include a finding that the system's compliance with applicable national primary drinking water regulations is not economically feasible. Precludes judicial or administrative review of such findings.
[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4798 Introduced in House (IH)]
111th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4798
To allow small public water systems to request an exemption from the
requirements of any national primary drinking water regulation for a
naturally occurring contaminant, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 9, 2010
Mr. Simpson (for himself and Mr. Conaway) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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A BILL
To allow small public water systems to request an exemption from the
requirements of any national primary drinking water regulation for a
naturally occurring contaminant, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Small Community Options for
Regulatory Equity Act of 2010''.
SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FOR NONPROFIT SMALL PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS RESPECTING
NATURALLY OCCURRING CONTAMINANTS.
The Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.) is amended by
inserting after section 1416 the following:
``exemption for nonprofit small public water systems respecting
naturally occurring contaminants
``Sec. 1416A. (a) Exemption.--A State exercising primary
enforcement responsibility for public water systems under section 1413
(or the Administrator in any nonprimacy State) shall exempt any
nonprofit small public water system that submits a request in
accordance with subsection (b) from the requirements of any national
primary drinking water regulation for a naturally occurring
contaminant.
``(b) Request.--To seek an exemption under this section, a
nonprofit small public water system--
``(1) shall submit a written request to the State
exercising primary enforcement responsibility with respect to
the system (or the Administrator in any nonprimacy State); and
``(2) shall include in such request a finding under
subsection (c).
``(c) Economic Feasibility.--
``(1) Finding.--To seek an exemption under this section, a
nonprofit small public water system must find that compliance
by the system with the national primary drinking water
regulation involved is not economically feasible.
``(2) No review.--A finding by a nonprofit small public
water system under this subsection shall not be subject to
judicial or administrative review.
``(d) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) The term `naturally occurring contaminant' includes
arsenic, radon, radium, uranium, and any contaminant that is a
disinfection byproduct (including bromate, chlorite, haloacetic
acids, and total trihalomethanes).
``(2) The term `small public water system' means a public
water system serving 10,000 or fewer persons.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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