[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4651 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4651

To require bottled water to meet maximum contaminant levels established 
       under the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 1994

  Mr. Bryant introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require bottled water to meet maximum contaminant levels established 
       under the Safe Drinking Water Act, 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. BOTTLED WATER STANDARDS.

    (a) FDA Rules.--(1) At any time after the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency publishes a proposed maximum 
contaminant level under section 1412 of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(title XIV of the Public Health Service Act) but not later than 180 
days after the Administrator publishes a final maximum contaminant 
level, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the 
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, after public notice 
and comment, shall promulgate a regulation establishing a quality level 
for the contaminant in bottled water or make a finding that such a 
regulation is not necessary to protect the public health because the 
contaminant is contained in water in the public water systems (as 
defined under section 1401(4) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 300f(4)) and not 
in water used for bottled water.
    (2) The regulation shall include any monitoring requirements 
determined appropriate for bottled water by the Secretary.
    (3) The regulation--
            (A) shall require that the quality level for the 
        contaminant in bottled water be as stringent as the maximum 
        contaminant level for the contaminant published by the 
        Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and
            (B) may require that the quality level be more stringent 
        than the maximum contaminant level if necessary to provide 
        ample public health protection under this Act.
    (b) Default.--(1) If the Secretary fails to promulgate a regulation 
as provided in subsection (a) within the 180-day time period specified 
in subsection (a), the regulation with respect to the final maximum 
contaminant level published by the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency (as described in subsection (a)) shall be considered, 
as of the date on which the Secretary is required to establish a 
regulation under subsection (a), as the final regulation for the 
establishment of the quality level for a contaminant required under 
subsection (a) for the purpose of establishing or amending a bottled 
water quality level standard with respect to the contaminant.
    (2) Not later than 30 days after the end of the 180-day period 
described in subsection (a), the Secretary shall, with respect to a 
maximum contaminant level that is considered as a quality level under 
paragraph (1), publish a notice in the Federal Register that sets forth 
the quality level and appropriate monitoring requirements required 
under paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) and that provides that 
the quality level standard and requirements shall take effect on the 
date on which the final regulation of the maximum contaminant level 
takes effect.

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