I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3387 
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to improve public water systems 
and enhance compliance with such Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 25, 2017 
Mr. HARPER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to improve public 
water systems and enhance compliance with such Act, 
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 ‘‘Drinking Water Sys-
tem Improvement Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. IMPROVED CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORTS. 
Section 1414(c)(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(42 U.S.C. 300g–3(c)(4)) is amended— 
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(1) in the heading for subparagraph (A), by 
striking ‘‘ANNUAL
REPORT’’ and inserting ‘‘RE-
PORT’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘, or pro-
vide by electronic means,’’ after ‘‘to mail’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘the Admin-
istrator, and’’ and inserting ‘‘the Administrator, 
including corrosion control efforts, and’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following 
clause: 
‘‘(vii) Identification of, if any— 
‘‘(I) exceedances described in 
paragraph (1)(D) for which corrective 
action has been required by the Ad-
ministrator or the State (in the case 
of a State exercising primary enforce-
ment responsibility for public water 
systems) during the monitoring period 
covered by the consumer confidence 
report; and 
‘‘(II) violations that occurred 
during the monitoring period covered 
by the consumer confidence report.’’; 
and 
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(4) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(F) REVISIONS.— 
‘‘(i) UNDERSTANDABILITY AND FRE-
QUENCY.—Not later than 24 months after 
the Drinking Water System Improvement 
Act of 2017, the Administrator, in con-
sultation with the parties identified in sub-
paragraph (A), shall issue revisions to the 
regulations issued under subparagraph 
(A)— 
‘‘(I) to increase— 
‘‘(aa) the readability, clarity, 
and understandability of the in-
formation presented in consumer 
confidence reports; and 
‘‘(bb) the accuracy of infor-
mation presented, and risk com-
munication, in consumer con-
fidence reports; and 
‘‘(II) with respect to community 
water systems that serve 10,000 or 
more persons, to require each such 
community water system to provide, 
by mail, electronic means, or other 
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methods described in clause (ii), a 
consumer confidence report to each 
customer of the system at least bian-
nually. 
‘‘(ii) ELECTRONIC
DELIVERY.—Any 
revision of regulations pursuant to clause 
(i) shall allow delivery of consumer con-
fidence reports by methods consistent with 
methods described in the memorandum 
‘Safe Drinking Water Act—Consumer 
Confidence Report Rule Delivery Options’ 
issued by the Environmental Protection 
Agency on January 3, 2013.’’. 
SEC. 3. CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1414(h)(1) of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g–3(h)(1)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘or’’ after 
the semicolon; 
(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(D) entering into a contractual agreement 
for significant management or administrative 
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functions of the system to correct violations 
identified in the plan.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Section 1414(i)(1) of 
the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g–3(i)(1)) is 
amended by inserting a comma after ‘‘1417’’. 
SEC. 4. IMPROVED ACCURACY AND AVAILABILITY OF COM-
PLIANCE MONITORING DATA. 
Section 1414 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300g–3) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(j) IMPROVED ACCURACY
AND AVAILABILITY
OF 
COMPLIANCE MONITORING DATA.— 
‘‘(1) STRATEGIC PLAN.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
Administrator, in coordination with States, public 
water systems, and other interested stakeholders, 
shall develop and provide to Congress a strategic 
plan for improving the accuracy and availability of 
monitoring data collected to demonstrate compliance 
with national primary drinking water regulations 
and submitted— 
‘‘(A) by public water systems to States; or 
‘‘(B) by States to the Administrator. 
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Federal agencies that have experience using prac-
ticable methods and means to improve the accuracy 
and availability of submitted data described in such 
paragraph.’’. 
SEC. 5. ASSET MANAGEMENT. 
Section 1420 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300g–9) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘; 
and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in subparagraph (E), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(F) a description of how the State will, as 
appropriate— 
‘‘(i) encourage development by public 
water systems of asset management plans 
that include best practices for asset man-
agement; and 
‘‘(ii) assist, including through the pro-
vision of technical assistance, public water 
systems in training operators or other rel-
evant and appropriate persons in imple-
menting such asset management plans.’’; 
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(2) in subsection (c)(3), by inserting ‘‘, includ-
ing efforts of the State to encourage development by 
public water systems of asset management plans and 
to assist public water systems in training relevant 
and appropriate persons in implementing such asset 
management plans’’ after ‘‘public water systems in 
the State’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(5) INFORMATION
ON
ASSET
MANAGEMENT 
PRACTICES.—Not later than 5 years after the date 
of enactment of this paragraph, and not less often 
than every 5 years thereafter, the Administrator 
shall review and, if appropriate, update educational 
materials, including handbooks, training materials, 
and technical information, made available by the Ad-
ministrator to owners, managers, and operators of 
public water systems, local officials, technical assist-
ance providers (including non-profit water associa-
tions), and State personnel concerning best practices 
for asset management strategies that may be used 
by public water systems.’’. 
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SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION FOR GRANTS FOR STATE PRO-
GRAMS. 
Section 1443(a)(7) of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(42 U.S.C. 300j–2(a)(7)) is amended by striking 
‘‘$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1997 through 
2003’’ and inserting ‘‘$150,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2018 through 2022’’. 
SEC. 7. STATE REVOLVING LOAN FUNDS. 
(a) USE OF FUNDS.—Section 1452(a)(2)(B) of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(a)(2)(B)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘(including expenditures for plan-
ning, design, and associated preconstruction activities, in-
cluding activities relating to the siting of the facility, but 
not’’ and inserting ‘‘(including expenditures for planning, 
design, siting, and associated preconstruction activities, or 
for replacing or rehabilitating aging treatment, storage, 
or distribution facilities of public water systems, but not’’. 
(b) AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTS.—Sec-
tion 1452(a)(4)(A) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–12(a)(4)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year 2017’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 2018 through 
2022’’. 
(c) EVALUATION.—Section 1452(a) of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(a)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(5) EVALUATION.—During fiscal years 2018 
through 2022, a State may provide financial assist-
ance under this section to a public water system 
serving a population of more than 10,000 for an ex-
penditure described in paragraph (2) only if the pub-
lic water system— 
‘‘(A) considers the cost and effectiveness of 
relevant processes, materials, techniques, and 
technologies for carrying out the project or ac-
tivity that is the subject of the expenditure; and 
‘‘(B) certifies to the State, in a form and 
manner determined by the State, that the pub-
lic water system has made such consideration.’’. 
(d) PREVAILING WAGES.—Section 1452(a) of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(a)) is fur-
ther amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(6) PREVAILING WAGES.—The requirements of 
section 1450(e) shall apply to any construction 
project carried out in whole or in part with assist-
ance made available by a drinking water treatment 
revolving loan fund.’’. 
(e) ASSISTANCE
FOR
DISADVANTAGED
COMMU-
NITIES.—Section 1452(d)(2) of the Safe Drinking Water 
Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(d)(2)) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
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‘‘(2) TOTAL AMOUNT OF SUBSIDIES.—For each 
fiscal year, of the amount of the capitalization grant 
received by the State for the year, the total amount 
of loan subsidies made by a State pursuant to para-
graph (1)— 
‘‘(A) may not exceed 35 percent; and 
‘‘(B) to the extent that there are sufficient 
applications for loans to communities described 
in paragraph (1), may not be less than 6 per-
cent.’’. 
(f) TYPES OF ASSISTANCE.—Section 1452(f)(1) of 
the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(f)(1)) 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and 
(D) as subparagraphs (D) and (E), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) each loan will be fully amortized not 
later than 30 years after the completion of the 
project, except that in the case of a disadvan-
taged community (as defined in subsection 
(d)(3)) a State may provide an extended term 
for a loan, if the extended term— 
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‘‘(i) terminates not later than the date 
that is 40 years after the date of project 
completion; and 
‘‘(ii) does not exceed the expected de-
sign life of the project;’’; and 
(3) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘1 year 
after completion of the project for which the loan 
was made’’ and all that follows through ‘‘design life 
of the project;’’ and inserting ‘‘18 months after com-
pletion of the project for which the loan was made;’’. 
(g) NEEDS SURVEY.—Section 1452(h) of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(h)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Administrator’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘(1) The Administrator’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) Any assessment conducted under paragraph (1) 
after the date of enactment of the Drinking Water System 
Improvement Act of 2017 shall include an assessment of 
costs to replace all lead service lines (as defined in section 
1459B(a)(4)) of all eligible public water systems in the 
United States, and such assessment shall describe sepa-
rately the costs associated with replacing the portions of 
such lead service lines that are owned by an eligible public 
water system and the costs associated with replacing any 
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‘‘(E) 
$2,000,000,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
2022.’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘To the extent amounts author-
ized to be’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(2) To the extent amounts authorized to be’’; 
and 
(3) by striking ‘‘(prior to the fiscal year 
2004)’’. 
(j) BEST
PRACTICES
FOR
ADMINISTRATION
OF 
STATE REVOLVING LOAN FUNDS.—Section 1452 of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12) is amended 
by adding after subsection (r) the following: 
‘‘(s) BEST PRACTICES FOR STATE LOAN FUND AD-
MINISTRATION.—The Administrator shall— 
‘‘(1) collect information from States on admin-
istration of State loan funds established pursuant to 
subsection (a)(1), including— 
‘‘(A) efforts to streamline the process for 
applying for assistance through such State loan 
funds; 
‘‘(B) programs in place to assist with the 
completion 
of 
applications 
for 
assistance 
through such State loan funds; 
‘‘(C) incentives provided to public water 
systems that partner with small public water 
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systems to assist with the application process 
for assistance through such State loan funds; 
‘‘(D) practices to ensure that amounts in 
such State loan funds are used to provide loans, 
loan guarantees, or other authorized assistance 
in a timely fashion; 
‘‘(E) practices that support effective man-
agement of such State loan funds; 
‘‘(F) practices and tools to enhance finan-
cial management of such State loan funds; and 
‘‘(G) key financial measures for use in 
evaluating State loan fund operations, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(i) measures of lending capacity, 
such as current assets and current liabil-
ities or undisbursed loan assistance liabil-
ity; and 
‘‘(ii) measures of growth or sustain-
ability, such as return on net interest; 
‘‘(2) not later than 3 years after the date of en-
actment of the Drinking Water System Improvement 
Act of 2017, disseminate to the States best practices 
for administration of such State loan funds, based 
on the information collected pursuant to this sub-
section; and 
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‘‘(3) periodically update such best practices, as 
appropriate.’’. 
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION FOR SOURCE WATER PETITION 
PROGRAMS. 
Section 1454(e) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–14(e)) is amended by striking ‘‘1997 through 
2003’’ and inserting ‘‘2018 through 2022’’. 
SEC. 9. REVIEW OF TECHNOLOGIES. 
Part E of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘SEC. 1459C. REVIEW OF TECHNOLOGIES. 
‘‘(a) REVIEW.—The Administrator, after consultation 
with appropriate departments and agencies of the Federal 
Government and with State and local governments, shall 
review (or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements 
to provide for a review of) existing and potential methods, 
means, equipment, and technologies (including review of 
cost, availability, and efficacy of such methods, means, 
equipment, and technologies) that— 
‘‘(1) ensure the physical integrity of community 
water systems; 
‘‘(2) prevent, detect, and respond to any con-
taminant for which a national primary drinking 
water regulation has been promulgated in commu-
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nity water systems and source water for community 
water systems; 
‘‘(3) allow for use of alternate drinking water 
supplies from non-traditional sources; and 
‘‘(4) facilitate source water assessment and pro-
tection. 
‘‘(b) INCLUSIONS.—The review under subsection (a) 
shall include review of methods, means, equipment, and 
technologies— 
‘‘(1) that are used for corrosion protection, me-
tering, leak detection, or protection against water 
loss; 
‘‘(2) that are intelligent systems, including 
hardware, software, or other technology, used to as-
sist in protection and detection described in para-
graph (1); 
‘‘(3) that are point of use devices or point of 
entry devices; 
‘‘(4) that are physical or electronic systems that 
monitor, or assist in monitoring, contaminants in 
drinking water in real-time; and 
‘‘(5) that allow for the use of non-traditional 
sources for drinking water, including physical sepa-
ration and chemical and biological transformation 
technologies. 
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‘‘(c) AVAILABILITY.—The Administrator shall make 
the results of the review under subsection (a) available to 
the public. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to 
carry out this section $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2018, 
which shall remain available until expended.’’. 
SEC. 10. DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN REPLACEMENT FOR 
SCHOOLS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part F of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–21 et seq.) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 1465. DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN REPLACEMENT 
FOR SCHOOLS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator 
shall establish a grant program to provide assistance to 
local educational agencies for the replacement of drinking 
water fountains manufactured prior to 1988. 
‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds awarded under the 
grant program— 
‘‘(1) shall be used to pay the costs of replace-
ment of drinking water fountains in schools; and 
‘‘(2) may be used to pay the costs of monitoring 
and reporting of lead levels in the drinking water of 
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schools of a local educational agency receiving such 
funds, as determined appropriate by the Adminis-
trator. 
‘‘(c) PRIORITY.—In awarding funds under the grant 
program, the Administrator shall give priority to local edu-
cational agencies based on economic need. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
not more than $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 
through 2022.’’. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 1461(5) of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–21(5)) is amended 
by inserting ‘‘or drinking water fountain’’ after ‘‘water 
cooler’’ each place it appears. 
SEC. 11. SOURCE WATER. 
(a) ADDRESSING SOURCE WATER USED FOR DRINK-
ING WATER.—Section 304 of the Emergency Planning 
and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. 
11004) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘State 
emergency planning commission’’ and inserting 
‘‘State emergency response commission’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
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‘‘(iii) forward to the community water 
system the written followup emergency no-
tice provided under paragraph (1)(C). 
‘‘(B) DIRECT NOTIFICATION.—In the case 
of a State that does not have an applicable 
State agency, the State emergency response 
commission shall provide the notices and infor-
mation described in paragraph (1) directly to 
any community water system the source waters 
of which are affected by a release that requires 
notice under subsection (a). 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) COMMUNITY
WATER
SYSTEM.—The 
term ‘community water system’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 1401(15) of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act. 
‘‘(B) APPLICABLE
STATE
AGENCY.—The 
term ‘applicable State agency’ means the State 
agency that has primary responsibility to en-
force the requirements of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act in the State.’’. 
(b) AVAILABILITY
TO COMMUNITY WATER SYS-
TEMS.—Section 312(e) of the Emergency Planning and 
Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. 
11022(e)) is amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘State emergency planning com-
mission’’ and inserting ‘‘State emergency response 
commission’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(4) AVAILABILITY TO COMMUNITY WATER SYS-
TEMS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—An affected commu-
nity water system may have access to tier II in-
formation by submitting a request to the State 
emergency response commission or the local 
emergency planning committee. Upon receipt of 
a request for tier II information, the State com-
mission or local committee shall, pursuant to 
paragraph (1), request the facility owner or op-
erator for the tier II information and make 
available such information to the affected com-
munity water system. 
‘‘(B) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 
term ‘affected community water system’ means 
a community water system (as defined in sec-
tion 1401(15) of the Safe Drinking Water Act) 
that receives supplies of drinking water from a 
source water area, delineated under section 
1453 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, in which 
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a facility that is required to prepare and submit 
an inventory form under subsection (a)(1) is lo-
cated.’’. 
SEC. 12. REPORT ON FEDERAL CROSS-CUTTING REQUIRE-
MENTS. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 
submit to Congress a report containing the results of a 
study, to be conducted in consultation with the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency, any State 
agency that has primary responsibility to enforce the re-
quirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300f et seq.) in a State, and public water systems, to iden-
tify demonstrations of compliance with a State or local en-
vironmental law that may be substantially equivalent to 
any demonstration required by the Administrator for com-
pliance with a Federal cross-cutting requirement. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
(1) FEDERAL CROSS-CUTTING REQUIREMENT.— 
The term ‘‘Federal cross-cutting requirement’’ 
means a requirement of a Federal law or regulation, 
compliance with which is a condition on receipt of a 
loan or loan guarantee pursuant to section 1452 of 
the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12), 
that, if applied with respect to projects and activities 
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for which a public water system receives such a loan 
or loan guarantee, would be substantially equivalent 
to a requirement of an applicable State or local law. 
(2) PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘public 
water system’’ has the meaning given that term in 
section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300f). 
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