[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3536 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 3536

   To provide for a study regarding the potential health effects of 
ingesting and inhaling MTBE, to provide for research regarding methods 
  for the removal of MTBE from water supplies, and to require public 
   water systems to monitor for the presence of MTBE in public water 
                                systems.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2000

   Mr. Franks of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for a study regarding the potential health effects of 
ingesting and inhaling MTBE, to provide for research regarding methods 
  for the removal of MTBE from water supplies, and to require public 
   water systems to monitor for the presence of MTBE in public water 
                                systems.

    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 ``Drinking Water Protection Act of 
2000''.

SEC. 2. STUDY OF HEALTH EFFECTS OF MTBE.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the 
Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall conduct a 
comprehensive study of the potential health effects of ingesting and 
inhaling Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE). The Secretary shall report 
the results of such study to the Congress and the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency.

SEC. 3. RESEARCH REGARDING THE REMOVAL OF MTBE FROM WATER SUPPLIES.

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is 
directed to carry out a research program regarding methods available 
for the safe removal of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) from 
drinking water supplies.

SEC. 4. MONITORING BY PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS.

    Section 1445(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Safe Drinking Water Act is amended 
by adding the following at the end thereof: ``Notwithstanding the 
deadlines established in the preceding provisions of this clause, 
public water systems shall commence monitoring for Methyl Tertiary 
Butyl Ether (MTBE) no later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this sentence.''.
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