3.0.0 2509 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z Senate S S 2007-12-18 110 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-12-18T23:55:27Z 2007-12-18 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2007-12-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress I000024 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] Jim Inhofe R OK N N000180 Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE] E. Nelson D NE Benjamin 2007-12-18 True H001028 Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE] CHUCK HAGEL R NE 2007-12-18 True C001057 Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] Norm Coleman R MN 2008-01-25 False Environmental Protection Administrative procedure Arsenic Congress Congressional reporting requirements Economics and Public Finance Environmental Protection Agency Environmental health Environmental research Environmental technology Federal aid to water pollution control Government Operations and Politics Governmental investigations Health Infrastructure Law Potable water Research and development Revolving funds Science, Technology, Communications Technology transfer Waste water treatment Water Resources Development Water pollution control Water purification Water treatment plants Environmental Protection 00 2007-12-18 Introduced in Senate 2008-06-16T14:35:48Z Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): (1) to convene a working group to study barriers to using specified treatments; (2) to develop model guidance to assist states in regulating and promoting such treatment options; and (3) when establishing affordability criteria for variance technology, to consider specified cost factors, to give extra weight to households below the poverty level and to communities that meet state affordability criteria, and to ensure that the criteria are not more costly, on a per-capita basis, to a small public water system than the per capita cost to a large water system of acquiring feasible technology.

Requires the Administrator or a state, before initiating any enforcement action, to ensure that sufficient funds have been made available to assist each public water system that serves fewer than 10,000 individuals in meeting regulation requirements.

Revises provisions allowing an exemption of a system from maximum containment level and treatment technique requirements to: (1) increase the population threshold; and (2) allow state determinations of a renewal period.

Revises technical assistance provisions to require water systems serving fewer than 10,000 individuals to receive adequate technical assistance and training to meet requirements of final rules. Gives priority to systems not in compliance with specified rules concerning: (1) disinfectants and disinfection byproducts; (2) arsenic and compliance and new source monitoring; and (3) groundwater.

Establishes pilot programs to: (1) explore new technologies or approaches to comply with a drinking water standard; and (2) research technology transfer issues and disinfection strategies relating to drinking water.

Requires the Administrator to establish a panel to study the health effects of exposure to arsenic and disinfection byproducts.

]]> Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2007 Display Title Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to prevent the enforcement of certain national primary drinking water regulations unless sufficient funding is available or variance technology has been identified. Introduced in Senate 2007-12-18T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2509is/xml/BILLS-110s2509is.xml 2007-12-18 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.