SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT

Bills and resolutions

EPA: establish a program that tests chemicals found in drinking water to determine whether they are endocrine disruptors and the extent of their ability to interfere with human hormones (see H.R. 553), H550 [8FE]

———reduce or eliminate the risk of releases of hazardous chemicals from public water systems and wastewater treatment works (see S. 711), S2046 [31MR]

Power resources: repeal exemption for hydraulic fracturing (see S. 587), S1677 [15MR]

Public utilities: amend relative to consumer confidence reports by community water systems (see S. 1578), S5726 [19SE] (see H.R. 1340), H2266 [1AP]

———reauthorize provision of technical assistance to small public water systems (see H.R. 1427), H2533 [7AP]

Water: prevent enforcement of certain national primary drinking water regulations unless sufficient funding is available or variance technology has been identified (see S. 999), S2992 [16MY]

———repeal exemption for hydraulic fracturing (see H.R. 1084), H1841 [15MR]

———require a health advisory and drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium (see S. 79), S124 [25JA]

———require a health advisory and drinking water standard for perchlorate (see S. 78), S124 [25JA]

———require additional monitoring of certain contaminants in drinking water (see S. 875), S2621 [3MY]

Remarks in House

Public utilities: amend relative to consumer confidence reports by community water systems (H.R. 1340), E623 [4AP]

Remarks in Senate

Public utilities: amend relative to consumer confidence reports by community water systems (S. 1578), S7696 [17NO]

Water: prevent enforcement of certain national primary drinking water regulations unless sufficient funding is available or variance technology has been identified (S. 999), S2993 [16MY]