1.This Act may be cited as
the Drinking Water Right to Know
Act
.
2.Monitoring of
unregulated contaminants
(a)Monitoring
program for certain unregulated contaminantsSection
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)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)Continued monitoring required under subclause (I) shall not
affect the listing of or monitoring for contaminants required under clause
(i).
.
(b)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)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)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
.