[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7078 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7078

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of 
 the Environmental Protection Agency to publish a maximum contaminant 
level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation 
             for microcystin toxin, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 2018

Ms. Kaptur (for herself, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Ms. Bonamici, Mrs. Dingell, 
 Mr. Quigley, and Ms. Fudge) 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 require the Administrator of 
 the Environmental Protection Agency to publish a maximum contaminant 
level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation 
             for microcystin toxin, 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 ``Protection from Algal Toxins Act''.

SEC. 2. DEADLINE FOR REGULATIONS ON MICROCYSTIN TOXIN.

    Section 1412(b)(2) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-
1(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Microcystin toxin.--
                            ``(i) Notwithstanding any other deadline 
                        established in this subsection, not later than 
                        the date described in clause (ii), the 
                        Administrator shall publish a maximum 
                        contaminant level goal and promulgate a 
                        national primary drinking water regulation for 
                        microcystin toxin.
                            ``(ii) The date described in this clause is 
                        date of the first final determination under 
                        paragraph (1)(B)(ii)(I) made after the date of 
                        enactment of this subparagraph.''.
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