[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3436]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 370. Mrs. GILLIBRAND submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, 
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department 
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal 
year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. ___. MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS.

       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) Perfluorinated compounds.--
       ``(i) Required regulations.--Not later than 2 years after 
     the date of enactment of the Protect Drinking Water from PFAS 
     Act of 2019, the Administrator shall publish a maximum 
     contaminant level and promulgate a national primary drinking 
     water regulation for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl 
     substances.
       ``(ii) Monitoring.--In establishing monitoring requirements 
     under the national primary drinking water regulation for 
     perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances under clause 
     (i), the Administrator shall--

       ``(I) consider options for tailoring monitoring 
     requirements for public water systems that do not detect, or 
     are reliably and consistently below the maximum contaminant 
     level for, those substances; and
       ``(II) prioritize the use of existing authorities to 
     provide technical assistance and funding to help small, 
     rural, or disadvantaged public water systems to comply with 
     the national primary drinking water regulation.''.

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