[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2466 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2466

To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to authorize the Administrator of 
  the Environmental Protection Agency to notify the public if a State 
   agency and public water system are not taking action to address a 
    public health risk associated with drinking water requirements.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 27, 2016

  Mr. Peters (for himself and Ms. Stabenow) 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 authorize the Administrator of 
  the Environmental Protection Agency to notify the public if a State 
   agency and public water system are not taking action to address a 
    public health risk associated with drinking water requirements.

    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 ``Improving Notification for Clean and 
Safe Drinking Water Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. ENFORCEMENT OF DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS.

    (a) Exceedance of Lead Action Level.--Section 1414(c) of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-3(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Notice of any exceedance of a lead action 
                level or any other prescribed level of lead in a 
                regulation issued under section 1412, including the 
                concentrations of lead found in a monitoring 
                activity.'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) and (E) as 
                subparagraphs (E) and (F), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the 
                following:
                    ``(D) Exceedance of lead action level.--Regulations 
                issued under subparagraph (A) shall specify 
                notification procedures for an exceedance of a lead 
                action level or any other prescribed level of lead in a 
                regulation issued under section 1412.'';
            (3) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
        (4) and (5), respectively; and
            (4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) Notification of the public relating to lead.--
                    ``(A) Exceedance of lead action level.--Not later 
                than 15 days after the date of an exceedance of a lead 
                action level or any other prescribed level of lead in a 
                regulation issued under section 1412, the Administrator 
                shall notify the public of the concentrations of lead 
                found in the monitoring activity conducted by the 
                public water system if the public water system or the 
                State does not notify the public of the concentrations 
                of lead found in a monitoring activity.
                    ``(B) Results of lead monitoring.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The Administrator may 
                        provide notice of any result of lead monitoring 
                        conducted by a public water system to--
                                    ``(I) any person that is served by 
                                the public water system; or
                                    ``(II) the local or State health 
                                department of a locality or State in 
                                which the public water system is 
                                located.
                            ``(ii) Form of notice.--The Administrator 
                        may provide the notice described in clause (i) 
                        by--
                                    ``(I) press release; or
                                    ``(II) other form of communication, 
                                including local media.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 1414(c) of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-3(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(C), by striking ``paragraph (2)(E)'' 
        and inserting ``paragraph (2)(F)'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)(B)(i)(II), by striking ``subparagraph 
        (D)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (E)''; and
            (3) in paragraph (3)(B), in the first sentence, by striking 
        ``(D)'' and inserting ``(E)''.
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