SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safe Drinking Water 
Act Improved Compliance Awareness Act’’. 
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)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘paragraph (2)(E)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph 
(2)(F)’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) Notice of any exceedance at the 90th 
percentile of a lead action level in a regulation 
promulgated under section 1412.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘sub-
paragraph (D)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph 
(E)’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) in the header, by striking ‘‘VIOLA-
TIONS’’ and inserting ‘‘NOTICE OF VIOLA-
TIONS’’;
(ii) in the matter preceding clause 
(i)— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘, and each ex-
ceedance 
described 
in 
paragraph 
(1)(D),’’ after ‘‘for each violation’’; 
and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘or exceedance’’ 
after ‘‘Each notice of violation’’; 
(iii) by inserting ‘‘or exceedance’’ 
after ‘‘the violation’’ each place it appears; 
and 
(iv) in clause (iv)— 
(I) in subclause (I), by striking 
‘‘broadcast 
media’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘media, including broadcast media,’’; 
(II) in subclause (II)— 
(aa) by striking ‘‘in a news-
paper of general circulation serv-
ing the area’’ and inserting ‘‘for 
circulation in the affected area, 
including in a newspaper of gen-
eral 
circulation 
serving 
the 
area,’’; and
(bb) by striking ‘‘or the date 
of publication of the next issue of 
the newspaper’’; and 
(III) in subclause (III), by strik-
ing ‘‘in lieu of notification by means 
of broadcast media or newspaper’’; 
(C) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) 
and (E) as subparagraphs (E) and (F), respec-
tively; and 
(D) 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 
has not issued a notice that is required under 
subparagraph (C) for an exceedance described 
in paragraph (1)(D), the Administrator shall 
issue such required notice pursuant to this 
paragraph.’’; 
(4) in paragraph (3)(B)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘subparagraph (A) and’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (A),’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘subparagraph (C) or (D) 
of paragraph (2)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph 
(C) or (E) of paragraph (2), and notices issued 
by the Administrator with respect to public 
water systems serving Indian Tribes under sub-
paragraph (D) of such paragraph’’; 
(5) in paragraph (4)(B)— 
(A) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘the terms’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the terms ‘action level’,’’; and 
(B) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘and (IV)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(IV) the action level for the con-
taminant, and (V)’’; and 
(6) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) EXCEEDANCE OF SAFE LEAD LEVEL.— 
‘‘(A) STRATEGIC
PLAN.—Not later than 
120 days after the date of enactment of this 
paragraph, the Administrator shall, in collabo-
ration with owners and operators of public 
water systems and States, establish a strategic 
plan for how the Administrator, a State with 
primary enforcement responsibility, and owners 
and operators of public water systems shall con-
duct targeted outreach, education, technical as-
sistance, and risk communication to populations 
affected by lead in a public water system, in-
cluding dissemination of information described 
in subparagraph (C). 
‘‘(B) EPA INITIATION OF NOTICE.— 
‘‘(i) FORWARDING OF DATA BY EM-
PLOYEE
OF
EPA.—If the Environmental 
Protection Agency develops or receives, 
from a source other than the State or the 
public water system, data, which meets the 
requirements of section 1412(b)(3)(A)(ii), 
indicating that the drinking water of a per-
son served by a public water system con-
tains a level of lead that exceeds a lead ac-
tion level promulgated under section 1412, 
the Administrator shall require an appro-
priate employee of the Agency to forward 
such data to the owner or operator of the 
public water system and to the State in 
which the exceedance occurred within a 
time period established by the Adminis-
trator. 
‘‘(ii) DISSEMINATION
OF
INFORMA-
TION
BY
OWNER
OR
OPERATOR.—If an 
owner or operator of a public water system 
receives a notice under clause (i), the 
owner or operator, within a time period es-