[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2890 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2890

To expand homeland security at public water systems and treatment works 
    by allowing the Secretary of Homeland Security to include these 
 facilities in the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 12, 2011

    Mr. Clarke of Michigan introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 expand homeland security at public water systems and treatment works 
    by allowing the Secretary of Homeland Security to include these 
 facilities in the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO REGULATE CERTAIN TREATMENT WORKS 
              AND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE 
              ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.

    Section 550 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 
Act, 2007 (Public Law 109-295; 6 U.S.C. 121 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Public Water Systems, 
        as defined by section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 
        Public Law 93-523, as amended; Treatment Works as defined in 
        section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Public 
        Law 92-500, as amended;''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i)(1) The President shall delegate to the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency the authority otherwise provided to the 
Secretary under this section with respect to--
            ``(A) a treatment works, as such term is defined by section 
        212(2) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
        1292(2)); and
            ``(B) a public water system, as such term is defined by 
        section 1401(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
        300f(4)).
    ``(2) The Secretary shall provide technical assistance regarding 
compliance with regulations under this section, to any operator of a 
facility or treatment works referred to in paragraph (1).''.
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