[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 135 (Thursday, September 8, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5480-S5481]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5004. Mrs. GILLIBRAND submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 4979 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill S. 
2848, to provide for the conservation and development of water and 
related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct 
various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United 
States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       At the end subtitle A of title VII, add the following:

     SEC. 71__. 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--

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       ``(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) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``(i) In general'' and 
     all that follows through ``(ii) Grants for small system 
     costs--''; 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 data base 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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