Protect Our TEETH Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4556 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4556

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency to seek to enter into an agreement 
 with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to 
 carry out a rapid response evidence review of proposed rules relating 
                  to fluoride, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 21, 2025

  Mr. Cleaver (for himself, Mr. Frost, Mr. Fields, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. 
Bell, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mrs. Sykes, and Ms. 
   Norton) 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 to require the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency to seek to enter into an agreement 
 with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to 
 carry out a rapid response evidence review of proposed rules relating 
                  to fluoride, 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 ``Protect Our Treatment for Enamel, 
Erosion, and Tooth Health Act'' or the ``Protect Our TEETH Act''.

SEC. 2. FLUORIDE IN DRINKING WATER.

    Section 1412(b)(12) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-
1(b)(12)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Fluoride.--
                            ``(i) National academies rapid response 
                        evidence review.--Prior to publishing in the 
                        Federal Register a proposed rule to establish 
                        the maximum contaminant level goal for 
                        fluoride, or, in the national primary drinking 
                        water regulation for fluoride, specify the 
                        maximum contaminant level for fluoride, the 
                        Administrator shall--
                                    ``(I) seek to enter into an 
                                agreement with the National Academies 
                                of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 
                                to carry out a rapid response evidence 
                                review of such proposed rule, which 
                                agreement shall specify a timeline of 
                                no fewer than 90 days and no more than 
                                180 days for carrying out such rapid 
                                response evidence review;
                                    ``(II) provide the National 
                                Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
                                Medicine with all data and other 
                                information being used to justify such 
                                proposed rule; and
                                    ``(III) consider the results of any 
                                such rapid response evidence review 
                                with respect to such proposed rule.
                            ``(ii) Publication.--The Administrator 
                        shall publish in the Federal Register, as a 
                        part of any proposed rule under this 
                        subparagraph, the entirety of the final report 
                        of any rapid response evidence review relating 
                        to such proposed rule.
                            ``(iii) Use of existing funds.--The 
                        Administrator may use funds otherwise available 
                        to the Administrator to carry out this 
                        subparagraph.''.
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