[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 189 (Wednesday, November 29, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1394-D1395]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                      Wednesday, November 29, 1995 

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Safe Drinking Water Act.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S17699-S17829
Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1433-1437, and S. Res. 196.
  Pages S17775-76
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 1142, to authorize appropriations for the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 104-178)

Page S17775
Measures Passed:
  Safe Drinking Water Act: By a unanimous vote of 99 yeas (Vote No. 
588), Senate passed S. 1316, to reauthorize and amend title XIV of the 
Public Health Service Act (commonly known as the ``Safe Drinking Water 
Act''), after agreeing to committee amendments, and taking action on 
amendments proposed thereto, as follows:

  Pages S17700-32, S17734-58, S17760-62, S17764-74
Adopted:
  (1) Chafee Amendment No. 3068, to authorize listing of point-of-use 
treatment devices as best available technology, modify loan authorities 
for the State Revolving Fund program, and to clarify the definition of 
public water system.
Pages S17727-29
  (2) Chafee Amendment No. 3069, to require additional research prior 
to the promulgation of a standard for sulfate.
Pages S17729-30
  (3) Murkowski Amendment No. 3070, to authorize the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the State of 
Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages.

Page S17731
  (4) Chafee Amendment No. 3071, to authorize additional criteria to 
alternatives to filtration.
Pages S17755-56
  (5) Chafee Amendment No. 3072, to authorize grants for wastewater 
treatment and drinking water supply to low-income communities with 
economic hardship located along the United States-Mexico border.

Pages S17756-57
  (6) Kempthorne (for Thomas/Simpson) Amendment No. 3073, to provide 
that in nonprimacy States the Governor shall determine which State 
agency will have the authority to establish assistance priorities for 
financial assistance provided with amounts deposited into the State 
loan fund.
Page S17760
  (7) Kempthorne (for Bond) Amendment No. 3074, to provide an extension 
of drinking water regulations when necessary and justified.

Pages S17760-61
  Subsequently, the amendment was modified.
Page S17761
  (8) Kempthorne (for Murkowski/Stevens) Amendment No. 3075, to require 
that the needs of Native villages in the State of Alaska for drinking 
water treatment facilities be surveyed and assessed as part of the 
State survey and assessment.
Page S17761
  (9) Chafee Amendment No. 3076, to strike section 28, assessing 
environmental priorities, costs, and benefits.
Page S17762
  (10) Chafee Amendment No. 3077, to establish a watershed protection 
demonstration program, and to provide assistance to the State of New 
York for demonstration projects for the protection and enhancement of 
the quality of source waters of the New York City water supply system. 
                                                            Pages S17764-66

  (11) Chafee Amendment No. 3079, to provide that monitoring 
requirements imposed on a substantial number of public water systems be 
established by regulation.
Page S17771
Rejected:
  Boxer Amendment No. 3078, (by 59 yeas to 40 nays (Vote 587), Senate 
tabled the amendment) to require certain communities water systems to 
issue a consumer confidence report on the level of contaminants in the 
drinking water.
Pages S17767-73
  Death of Chaplain Halverson: Senate agreed to S. Res. 196, relative 
to the death of the Reverend 

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Richard Halverson, late the Chaplain of the United States Senate.

  Page S17825
  Land Transfer: Senate passed S. 1341, to provide for the transfer of 
certain lands to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the 
city of Scottsdale, Arizona, after agreeing to committee amendments.

  Pages S17825-28
  Philanthropy Protection Act: Senate passed H.R. 2519, to facilitate 
contributions to charitable organizations by codifying certain 
exemptions from the Federal securities laws, clearing the measure for 
the President.
  Page S17828
  Charitable Gift Annuity Antitrust Relief Act: Senate passed H.R. 
2525, to modify the operation of the antitrust laws, and of State laws 
similar to the antitrust laws, with respect to charitable gift 
annuities, clearing the measure for the President.
  Page S17828
Securities Litigation Reform Act/Conference Report--Agreement: A 
unanimous-consent time agreement was reached providing for the 
consideration of the conference report on H.R. 1058, to amend the 
Federal securities laws to curb certain abusive practices in private 
securities litigation, on Tuesday, December 5, 1995.
  Page S17825
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States:
  Transmitting the report of the Agreement For Cooperation in the 
Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy Between the U.S. and the European 
Atomic Energy Community; referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations. (PM-99).
Pages S17774-75
Messages From the President:
  Pages S17774-75
Messages From the House:
  Page S17775
Measures Placed on Calendar:
  Page S17775
Communications:
  Page S17775
Executive Reports of Committees:
  Page S17775
Statements on Introduced Bills:
  Pages S17776-82
Additional Cosponsors:
  Pages S17782-83
Amendments Submitted:
  Pages S17783-86
Authority for Committees:
  Page S17786
Additional Statements:
  Pages S17786-92
Text of H.R. 2539 as Previously Passed:
  Pages S17792-S17819
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--588)

  Pages S17773-74
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and as a further mark of 
respect to the memory of the late Chaplain of the Senate Reverend 
Richard Halverson, in accordance with S. Res. 196, adjourned at 7:30 
p.m., until 10 a.m., on Thursday, November 30, 1995. (For Senate's 
program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's 
Record on pages S17828-29.)