I 
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. 
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 
A BILL 
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Ad-
ministrator 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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Copper and Lead Eval-
uation and Reporting Act of 2016’’ or the ‘‘CLEAR Act 
of 2016’’. 
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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 Adminis-
trator 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 notifica-
tion that is culturally and linguistically ap-
propriate; 
‘‘(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 
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by the public water system of any lead por-
tion of the service line; 
‘‘(B) provide for frequent and culturally 
and linguistically appropriate multimedia out-
reach in plain language about the health risk 
and protection available to— 
‘‘(i) consumers with known or sus-
pected 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 pro-
viders for any individual described in 
clause (i) or (ii); 
‘‘(C) require, for each monitoring period, 
each public water system to publish on a pub-
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licly accessible website of the public water sys-
tem, or distribute by carrier route presort if the 
public water system does not maintain a pub-
licly 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 cop-
per; 
‘‘(D) in the case of a community that has 
a lead service line, require the public water sys-
tem to provide a public statement of lead serv-
ice line ownership that includes the legal basis 
of that determination of ownership; and 
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