I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4805 
To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to estab-
lish a program to make grants to States to assist local educational 
agencies in voluntary installation and maintenance of filtration stations 
at schools and child care programs, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 29, 2021 
Ms. CLARKE of New York (for herself, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. NORTON, Mr. 
BLUMENAUER, Mr. NADLER, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, 
Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. 
EVANS, Ms. NEWMAN, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. LEE of California, and Ms. 
MENG) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency to establish a program to make grants to States 
to assist local educational agencies in voluntary installa-
tion and maintenance of filtration stations at schools 
and child care programs, 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 School Drinking 
Water Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR INSTALLATION OF FILTRA-
TION STATIONS AT SCHOOLS AND CHILD 
CARE PROGRAMS. 
Section 1464 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–24) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(e) GRANT PROGRAM
FOR INSTALLATION
AND 
MAINTENANCE OF FILTRATION STATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) PROGRAM.—The Administrator shall es-
tablish a program to make grants to States to assist 
local educational agencies in voluntary installation 
and maintenance of filtration stations at schools and 
child care programs under the jurisdiction of the 
local educational agencies. 
‘‘(2) DIRECT GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL 
AGENCIES.—The Administrator may make a grant 
described in paragraph (1) directly available to— 
‘‘(A) any local educational agency de-
scribed in clause (i) or (iii) of subsection 
(d)(1)(B) located in a State that does not par-
ticipate in the program established under para-
graph (1); or 
‘‘(B) any local educational agency de-
scribed in clause (ii) of subsection (d)(1)(B). 
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‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants made under the 
program established under this subsection may be 
used to pay the costs of— 
‘‘(A) installation and maintenance of filtra-
tion stations at schools and child care pro-
grams; and 
‘‘(B) annual testing of drinking water at 
such schools and child care programs following 
the installation of filtration stations. 
‘‘(4) PRIORITY.—In making grants under the 
program established under this subsection, the Ad-
ministrator shall give priority to States and local 
educational agencies that will assist in voluntary in-
stallation and maintenance of filtration stations at 
schools and child care programs that are in low-in-
come areas. 
‘‘(5) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
Administrator shall establish guidance to carry out 
the program established under this subsection. 
‘‘(6) NO PRIOR TESTING REQUIRED.—The pro-
gram established under this subsection shall not re-
quire testing for lead contamination in drinking 
water at schools and child care programs prior to 
participation in such program. 
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‘‘(7) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) CHILD CARE PROGRAM AND LOCAL 
EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The terms ‘child care 
program’ and ‘local educational agency’ have 
the meaning given such terms in subsection (d). 
‘‘(B) FILTRATION
STATION.—The term 
‘filtration station’ means an apparatus that— 
‘‘(i) is connected to building plumb-
ing; 
‘‘(ii) is certified to the latest version 
of NSF/ANSI 53 for lead reduction and 
NSF/ANSI 42 for particulate reduction 
(Class I) by a certification body accredited 
by the American National Standards Insti-
tute National Accreditation Board; 
‘‘(iii) has an indicator to show filter 
performance; 
‘‘(iv) can fill bottles or containers for 
water consumption; and 
‘‘(v) allows users to drink directly 
from a stream of flowing water. 
‘‘(8) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
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this subsection $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2022 through 2031.’’. 
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