[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 875 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 875

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require additional monitoring 
            of certain contaminants, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 3, 2011

Mr. Lautenberg 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 to require additional monitoring 
            of certain contaminants, 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 ``Drinking Water Right to Know Act''.

SEC. 2. MONITORING OF UNREGULATED CONTAMINANTS.

    (a) Monitoring Program for Certain Unregulated Contaminants.--
Section 1445(a)(2)(B) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-
4(a)(2)(B)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) Continued monitoring for detected 
                        contaminants.--
                                    ``(I) In general.--If, as part of 
                                the monitoring program established 
                                under subparagraph (A), a public water 
                                system detects an unregulated 
                                contaminant included on the list 
                                described in clause (i), the 
                                Administrator shall by regulation 
                                require the public water system to 
                                continue to monitor for the detected 
                                contaminant for such period, at such 
                                frequency, and at such levels of 
                                concentration as the Administrator 
                                determines to be appropriate.
                                    ``(II) No effect on list.--
                                Continued monitoring required under 
                                subclause (I) shall not affect the 
                                listing of or monitoring for 
                                contaminants required under clause 
                                (i).''.
    (b) Occurrence Data Base.--Section 1445(g) of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-4(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by striking ``The data shall be used'' and 
                inserting the following:
                    ``(A) In general.--The data contained in the 
                occurrence data base--
                            ``(i) may be used by the public; and
                            ``(ii) shall be used''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Evaluation of usability.--Not later than 1 
                year after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, 
                the Administrator shall--
                            ``(i) evaluate the extent to which data 
                        maintained in the occurrence data base under 
                        this subsection are accessible to and useable 
                        by the public; and
                            ``(ii) implement any recommendations of the 
                        Administrator for making those data more 
                        accessible to and useable by the public.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (5), by inserting ``and useable by'' after 
        ``available to''.
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