[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4806 Introduced in House (IH)]
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114th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4806
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate national primary
drinking water regulations regarding lead and copper.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 17, 2016
Mr. Quigley (for himself, Ms. Duckworth, and Mrs. Bustos) 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 promulgate national primary
drinking water regulations regarding lead and copper.
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 ``Copper and Lead Evaluation and
Reporting Act of 2016'' or the ``CLEAR Act of 2016''.
SEC. 2. LEAD AND COPPER IN DRINKING WATER.
Section 1412(b) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-
1(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(16) Lead and copper in drinking water.--Not later than
180 days after the date of enactment of the CLEAR Act of 2016,
the Administrator shall promulgate national primary drinking
water regulations regarding lead and copper that--
``(A) based on the amount of lead that would result
in a blood lead level greater than 5 micrograms per
deciliter in an average, healthy infant who consumes
infant formula made with water, establish a health-
based household action level for lead and copper that
triggers--
``(i) not later than 28 days after the date
on which the household action level is reached,
plain-language consumer notification that is
culturally and linguistically appropriate;
``(ii) a report to the appropriate public
health agency; and
``(iii) an examination by the public water
system of service line material and, if
applicable, the initiation of the removal by
the public water system of any lead portion of
the service line;
``(B) provide for frequent and culturally and
linguistically appropriate multimedia outreach in plain
language about the health risk and protection available
to--
``(i) consumers with known or suspected
full or partial lead service lines;
``(ii) public and private institutions and
facilities that serve individuals of any other
vulnerable population, including--
``(I) children;
``(II) pregnant women; and
``(III) an immunocompromised
population, such as--
``(aa) individuals living
with auto immune deficiency
syndrome or human
immunodeficiency virus; and
``(bb) the elderly; and
``(iii) caregivers and healthcare providers
for any individual described in clause (i) or
(ii);
``(C) require, for each monitoring period, each
public water system to publish on a publicly accessible
website of the public water system, or distribute by
carrier route presort if the public water system does
not maintain a publicly accessible website, or
distribute door-to-door if a substantial portion of the
population served by the public water system does not
have access to the Internet or is elderly--
``(i) the number of households served by
the public water system that have a household
action level that is greater than the household
action level established by the Administrator
under subparagraph (A);
``(ii) all levels of lead and copper found
in each monitoring period; and
``(iii) the most recent 90th percentile
levels for lead and copper, as compared to the
system action levels for lead and copper;
``(D) in the case of a community that has a lead
service line, require the public water system to
provide a public statement of lead service line
ownership that includes the legal basis of that
determination of ownership; and
``(E) modify lead monitoring requirements to
provide for--
``(i) voluntary consumer-requested tap
sampling for lead; and
``(ii) the use of any result of a tap
sample described in clause (i)--
``(I) to inform--
``(aa) consumer action to
reduce the risk of lead in the
home of the consumer; and
``(bb) in the case of a tap
sample that is higher than the
household action level
established in subparagraph
(A), the consumer and the
appropriate public health
agency; and
``(II) to assess--
``(aa) if the tap sample
meets the site selection
criteria described in the
national primary drinking water
regulations issued by the
Administrator regarding lead
and copper, the effectiveness
of corrosion control treatment;
or
``(bb) any other potential
cause of an elevated lead
level.''.
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