Clean Water Healthy Communities Act
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by directing the Environmental Protection Agency to require monitoring of unregulated contaminants in drinking water supplied by public water systems, regardless of the number of people served by the system.
[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6201 Introduced in House (IH)]
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114th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6201
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to the monitoring
program for unregulated contaminants, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 28, 2016
Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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A BILL
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to the monitoring
program for unregulated contaminants, 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 ``Clean Water Healthy Communities
Act''.
SEC. 2. MONITORING FOR UNREGULATED CONTAMINANTS.
Section 1445 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-4) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(2)--
(A) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the
following:
``(A) Establishment.--
``(i) In general.--The Administrator shall
promulgate regulations establishing the
criteria for a monitoring program for
unregulated contaminants for all public water
systems, regardless of the number of people
served by a public water system.
``(ii) Requirements.--In promulgating
regulations under clause (i), the Administrator
shall--
``(I) require the monitoring of
drinking water supplied by public water
systems; and
``(II) vary the frequency and
schedule for monitoring requirements
for public water systems based on--
``(aa) the number of people
served by a public water
system;
``(bb) the source of the
water supply; and
``(cc) the contaminants
likely to be found in the water
supply.''; and
(B) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the
following:
``(C) Grants for small and medium system costs.--
From funds reserved under section 1452(o) or
appropriated under subparagraph (H), the Administrator
shall pay the reasonable cost of such testing and
laboratory analysis as are necessary to carry out
monitoring to assess the occurrence of unregulated
contaminants in public water systems that serve a
population of 10,000 or fewer.''; and
(2) in subsection (g), by striking paragraph (7) and
inserting the following:
``(7) Unregulated contaminants.--With respect to
contaminants for which a national primary drinking water
regulation has not been established, the database shall
include--
``(A) monitoring information collected by public
water systems under subsection (a); and
``(B) other reliable and appropriate monitoring
information on the occurrence of the contaminants in
public water systems that is available to the
Administrator.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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