[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1578 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1578

     To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to consumer 
             confidence reports by community water systems.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 19, 2011

Mr. Toomey (for himself and Mr. Boozman) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to consumer 
             confidence reports by community 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 ``End Unnecessary Mailers Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORTS BY COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEMS.

    (a) Method of Delivering Report.--Section 1414(c)(4)(A) of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-3(c)(4)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``The Administrator, 
        in consultation'' and inserting the following:
                            ``(i) In general.--The Administrator, in 
                        consultation'';
            (2) in clause (i) (as designated by paragraph (1)), in the 
        first sentence, by striking ``to mail to each customer'' and 
        inserting ``to provide, in accordance with clause (ii) or 
        (iii), as applicable, to each customer''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(ii) Mailing requirement for violation of 
                        maximum contaminant level.--If a violation of 
                        the maximum contaminant level for any regulated 
                        contaminant has occurred during the year 
                        concerned, the regulations under clause (i) 
                        shall require the applicable community water 
                        system to mail a copy of the consumer 
                        confidence report to each customer of the 
                        system.
                            ``(iii) Mailing requirement absent any 
                        violation of maximum contaminant level.--
                                    ``(I) In general.--If no violation 
                                of the maximum contaminant level for 
                                any regulated contaminant has occurred 
                                during the year concerned, the 
                                regulations under clause (i) shall 
                                require the applicable community water 
                                system to make the consumer confidence 
                                report available by, at the discretion 
                                of the community water system--
                                            ``(aa) mailing a copy of 
                                        the consumer confidence report 
                                        to each customer of the system; 
                                        or
                                            ``(bb) subject to subclause 
                                        (II), making a copy of the 
                                        consumer confidence report 
                                        available on a publicly 
                                        accessible Internet site of the 
                                        community water system and by 
                                        mail, at the request of a 
                                        customer.
                                    ``(II) Requirements.--If a 
                                community water system elects to 
                                provide consumer confidence reports to 
                                consumers under subclause (I)(bb), the 
                                community water system shall provide to 
                                each customer of the community water 
                                system, in plain language and in the 
                                same manner (such as in printed or 
                                electronic form) in which the customer 
                                has elected to pay the bill of the 
                                customer, notice that--
                                            ``(aa) the community water 
                                        system has remained in 
                                        compliance with the maximum 
                                        contaminant level for each 
                                        regulated contaminant during 
                                        the year concerned; and
                                            ``(bb) a consumer 
                                        confidence report is available 
                                        on a publicly accessible 
                                        Internet site of the community 
                                        water system and, on request, 
                                        by mail.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 1414(c)(4) of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-3(c)(4)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (C), in the matter preceding clause 
        (i), by striking ``mailing requirement of subparagraph (A)'' 
        and inserting ``mailing requirement of clause (ii) or (iii) of 
        subparagraph (A)''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (D), in the first sentence of the 
        matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``mailing requirement 
        of subparagraph (A)'' and inserting ``mailing requirement of 
        clause (ii) or (iii) of subparagraph (A)''.
    (c) Application; Administrative Actions.--
            (1) In general.--The amendments made by this section take 
        effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act.
            (2) Regulations.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental 
        Protection Agency shall promulgate any revised regulations and 
        take any other actions necessary to carry out the amendments 
        made by this section.
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