I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4470 
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to the requirements 
related to lead in drinking water, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 4, 2016 
Mr. KILDEE (for himself, Mr. UPTON, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. LEVIN, Mrs. MIL-
LER of Michigan, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. AMASH, Mr. BENISHEK, Mr. 
HUIZENGA of Michigan, Mr. BISHOP of Michigan, Mrs. DINGELL, Mrs. 
LAWRENCE, Mr. MOOLENAAR, Mr. TROTT, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. 
PAYNE, and Ms. EDWARDS) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to 
the requirements related to lead in drinking water, and 
for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Safe Drinking Water 
Act Improved Compliance Awareness Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ENFORCEMENT OF DRINKING WATER REGULA-
TIONS. 
Section 1414(c) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300g–3(c)) is amended— 
(1) in the header, by inserting ‘‘STATES, THE 
ADMINISTRATOR, AND’’ before ‘‘PERSONS SERVED’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(D) Notice of any exceedance of a lead 
action level or any other enforceable maximum 
level of lead in a regulation issued under section 
1412, which shall protect the privacy of indi-
vidual customer information.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) in the header, by striking ‘‘VIOLA-
TIONS’’ and inserting ‘‘NOTICE OF VIOLA-
TIONS’’; and 
(ii) in clause (iv)— 
(I) in subclause (I), by striking 
‘‘broadcast’’; 
(II) in subclause (II), by striking 
‘‘in a newspaper of general circulation 
serving the area’’ and inserting ‘‘for 
circulation in the affected area’’; and 
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(III) in subclause (III), by strik-
ing ‘‘in lieu of notification by means 
of broadcast media or newspaper’’; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) 
and (E) as subparagraphs (E) and (F), respec-
tively; and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 
the following: 
‘‘(D) NOTICE
BY
ADMINISTRATOR.—If, 
after 24 hours after the Administrator’s notifi-
cation under subsection (a)(1)(A), the State 
with primary enforcement responsibility or the 
owner or operator of the public water system, 
with regard to a notice required under subpara-
graph (C), has not issued a notice for a viola-
tion of a national primary drinking water regu-
lation with significant potential to have serious 
adverse effects on human health as a result of 
acute exposure, the Administrator shall issue 
such required notice pursuant to this para-
graph.’’; 
(4) in paragraph (4)(B)(ii), by striking ‘‘the 
terms’’ and inserting ‘‘the terms ‘action level’,’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) EXCEEDANCE OF SAFE LEAD LEVEL.— 
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