[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6201 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6201

  To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to the monitoring 
     program for unregulated contaminants, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2016

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York 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 with respect to the monitoring 
     program for unregulated 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 ``Clean Water Healthy Communities 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MONITORING FOR UNREGULATED CONTAMINANTS.

    Section 1445 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-4) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(A) Establishment.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The Administrator shall 
                        promulgate regulations establishing the 
                        criteria for a monitoring program for 
                        unregulated contaminants for all public water 
                        systems, regardless of the number of people 
                        served by a public water system.
                            ``(ii) Requirements.--In promulgating 
                        regulations under clause (i), the Administrator 
                        shall--
                                    ``(I) require the monitoring of 
                                drinking water supplied by public water 
                                systems; and
                                    ``(II) vary the frequency and 
                                schedule for monitoring requirements 
                                for public water systems based on--
                                            ``(aa) the number of people 
                                        served by a public water 
                                        system;
                                            ``(bb) the source of the 
                                        water supply; and
                                            ``(cc) the contaminants 
                                        likely to be found in the water 
                                        supply.''; and
                    (B) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(C) Grants for small and medium system costs.--
                From funds reserved under section 1452(o) or 
                appropriated under subparagraph (H), the Administrator 
                shall pay the reasonable cost of such testing and 
                laboratory analysis as are necessary to carry out 
                monitoring to assess the occurrence of unregulated 
                contaminants in public water systems that serve a 
                population of 10,000 or fewer.''; and
            (2) in subsection (g), by striking paragraph (7) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(7) Unregulated contaminants.--With respect to 
        contaminants for which a national primary drinking water 
        regulation has not been established, the database shall 
        include--
                    ``(A) monitoring information collected by public 
                water systems under subsection (a); and
                    ``(B) other reliable and appropriate monitoring 
                information on the occurrence of the contaminants in 
                public water systems that is available to the 
                Administrator.''.
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