[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6061 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6061

  To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to make grants to States that 
 establish and carry out programs to assist local educational agencies 
  in testing for, and remedying, lead contamination in drinking water 
from any source of lead contamination at schools under the jurisdiction 
                           of such agencies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2016

 Ms. Speier (for herself, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Brendan F. 
 Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. DeSaulnier, 
 Ms. Edwards, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Honda, Ms. 
     Jackson Lee, Mr. Kind, Ms. Lee, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
  Perlmutter, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Rangel, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. 
 Slaughter, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Tonko, and Ms. Velazquez) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to make grants to States that 
 establish and carry out programs to assist local educational agencies 
  in testing for, and remedying, lead contamination in drinking water 
from any source of lead contamination at schools under the jurisdiction 
                           of such agencies.

    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 ``No Lead in School Water Act''.

SEC. 2. TESTING AND REMEDYING LEAD CONTAMINATION IN DRINKING WATER AT 
              SCHOOLS.

    (a) Testing and Remedying Lead Contamination in Drinking Water at 
Schools.--Section 1464 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-
24) is amended by striking subsections (c) and (d) and inserting the 
following:
    ``(c) Testing and Remedying Lead Contamination.--
            ``(1) State programs.--In order to receive a grant under 
        section 1465, a State shall establish and carry out a program, 
        that meets the requirements under paragraph (2), to assist 
        local educational agencies in testing for, and remedying, lead 
        contamination in drinking water from any source of lead 
        contamination at schools under the jurisdiction of such 
        agencies, including drinking water coolers.
            ``(2) Requirements.--A State program under paragraph (1) 
        shall--
                    ``(A) require testing for lead contamination in 
                drinking water at schools under the jurisdiction of 
                local educational agencies, including testing of 
                drinking water at the site of consumption;
                    ``(B) provide for the dissemination to local 
                educational agencies, private nonprofit elementary or 
                secondary schools, and to day care centers of the 
                guidance document and testing protocol published under 
                subsection (b), together with the list of drinking 
                water coolers published under section 1463(a);
                    ``(C) provide that a copy of the results of any 
                testing under subparagraph (A) shall be available in 
                the administrative offices of the local educational 
                agency, and on a publicly accessible Web site, for 
                inspection by the public, including appropriate 
                governmental entities, teachers, other school 
                personnel, and parents;
                    ``(D) provide for notification of parent, teacher, 
                and employee organizations of the availability of the 
                results of any testing under subparagraph (A);
                    ``(E) if the results of any testing under 
                subparagraph (A) show a level of lead that meets or 
                exceeds a lead action level for remediation, as 
                determined by the Administrator, in conjunction with 
                the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
                Prevention--
                            ``(i) require distribution of the guidance 
                        document published under paragraph (3) to 
                        parents; and
                            ``(ii) require remediation measures be 
                        taken; and
                    ``(F) include any other requirement that the 
                Administrator determines necessary.
            ``(3) Guidance for parents.--Not later than 180 days after 
        the date of enactment of this paragraph, the Administrator 
        shall publish and make available on a publicly accessible Web 
        site a guidance document for parents that explains the results 
        of testing for lead contamination in drinking water at schools, 
        including results that show a level of lead that meets or 
        exceeds a lead action level for remediation, as determined by 
        the Administrator, in conjunction with the Director of the 
        Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and actions parents 
        can take to protect their child from lead contamination in 
        drinking water at school and otherwise. Such document may be 
        revised and republished as the Administrator determines 
        necessary.''.
    (b) Funding.--Section 1465 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j-25) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``under section 1464'' and 
                inserting ``that meet the requirements of section 
                1464(c)'';
                    (B) by striking ``drinking water coolers and from 
                other sources of lead contamination at schools under 
                the jurisdiction of such agencies'' and inserting ``any 
                source of lead contamination at schools under the 
                jurisdiction of such agencies, including drinking water 
                coolers''; and
                    (C) by striking ``after the enactment of this 
                section'' and inserting ``after the date of enactment 
                of the No Lead in School Water Act''; and
            (2) by striking subsections (b) and (c) and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2017 through 2022.
    ``(c) Federal Share.--The Federal share of the cost of a State 
program under section 1464(c) carried out using a grant under this 
section may not exceed 75 percent of the total cost of the program.''.

SEC. 3. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall submit to 
Congress a report on the State programs under section 1464(c) of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act, including the level of participation by 
States, the effect of the programs, and the estimated health and 
economic benefits of the programs.
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