[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2112 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2112

  To authorize the use of certain Federal funding programs to remove 
 arsenic from drinking water when the Environmental Protection Agency 
   promulgates a new national primary drinking water regulation for 
                    arsenic, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 2001

    Mr. Rogers of Michigan introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
     the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the use of certain Federal funding programs to remove 
 arsenic from drinking water when the Environmental Protection Agency 
   promulgates a new national primary drinking water regulation for 
                    arsenic, 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 ``Safe Drinking Water and Arsenic 
Removal Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR ARSENIC REMOVAL FROM DRINKING 
              WATER.

    (a) Safe Drinking Water Act Revolving Funds.--Section 1452(a)(2) of 
the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12(a)(2)) is amended by 
inserting the following after the second sentence: ``The funds may also 
be used to assist community water systems in removing arsenic from 
drinking water to the maximum level established in any national primary 
drinking water regulation for arsenic that is promulgated after the 
enactment of this sentence, notwithstanding any delay or phase-in of 
the date on which such systems are required to comply with such maximum 
contaminant level.''.
    (b) Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.--Section 306(a) of 
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926(a)) is 
amended by adding the following at the end thereof:
    ``(22) Loans and grants under this subsection may also be used to 
assist recipients that own or operate community water systems subject 
to the Safe Drinking Water Act in removing arsenic from drinking water 
to the maximum level established in any national primary drinking water 
regulation for arsenic that is promulgated under that Act after the 
enactment of this paragraph, notwithstanding any delay or phase-in of 
the date on which community water systems are required to comply with 
such maximum contaminant level.''.
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