[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 69 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 69

 To amend section 424 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
    1987 to modify the requirements for minimum property standards 
regarding individual residential water purification and treatment units 
  for properties subject to mortgages insured under the single-family 
                  housing mortgage insurance program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 1995

 Mr. Bereuter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Banking and Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 424 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
    1987 to modify the requirements for minimum property standards 
regarding individual residential water purification and treatment units 
  for properties subject to mortgages insured under the single-family 
                  housing mortgage insurance program.

    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 ``FHA Water Purification Standards 
Amendments Act''.

SEC. 2. APPROVAL OF POINT-OF-USE PURIFICATION SYSTEMS AND TESTING OF 
              SYSTEMS.

    Section 424 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 
(12 U.S.C. 1701z-15) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting after the period at the 
        end the following new sentence: ``The Secretary of Housing and 
        Urban Development shall provide for the approval under 
        subsection (c) of both point-of-use and point-of-entry water 
        treatment equipment and water purification systems that meet 
        the standards established under this section.'';
            (2) in the first sentence of subsection (b), by striking 
        ``general standards recognized by the Department as modified 
        for local or regional conditions'' and inserting the following: 
        ``standards for testing using (1) industry-accepted product 
        testing protocols, or (2) protocols that utilize technically 
        valid methodology using analytical testing methods of the 
        Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water quality and 
        maximum contaminant levels or equivalent methods.'';
            (3) by redesignating subsection (b) (as amended by 
        paragraph (2) of this section) as subsection (c); and
            (4) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(b) Point-of-Use Equipment.--For any property in which the water 
treatment or purification system in operation employs point-of-use 
equipment, the Secretary may not require that a treatment or 
purification system be employed on any water supply source serving the 
property that provides water that will not be used primarily for human 
consumption.''.

SEC. 3. REGULATIONS.

    The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall issue any 
regulations necessary to carry out section 424 of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1987, as amended by section 2 of this Act, 
not later than the expiration of the 6-month period beginning on the 
date of the enactment of this Act.

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