LEAD Guidance Act
Bill: H.R.3255 | Sponsor: Rep. Norcross, Donald (D-NJ)
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Lead Elimination and Data Guidance Act or the LEAD Guidance Act
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to develop guidance to help public water systems identify high-risk locations for purposes of (1) testing the concentration of lead in drinking water, and (2) replacing lead service lines. High-risk locations are areas that contain an environmental justice community and that are likely to have lead service lines.

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
  develop guidance for identifying high-risk locations to focus lead 
               reduction efforts, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lead Elimination and Data Guidance 
Act'' or the ``LEAD Guidance Act''.

SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH-RISK LOCATIONS.

    (a) Development of Guidance.--
            (1) In general.--In accordance with the deadline 
        established in subsection (b), the Administrator of the 
        Environmental Protection Agency shall develop guidance to help 
        public water systems identify high-risk locations for purposes 
        of focusing efforts to--
                    (A) test drinking water for the concentration of 
                lead in such drinking water; and
                    (B) replace lead service lines.
            (2) Use of data.--The guidance developed under paragraph 
        (1) shall include information on how a public water system may 
        use data from the American Community Survey conducted by the 
        Department of Commerce and, where available, geospatial data to 
        identify high-risk locations for the purposes described in 
        subsection (a).
    (b) Availability of Guidance.--Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall--
            (1) publish the guidance developed under subsection (a) in 
        the Federal Register; and
            (2) make such guidance available on a publicly accessible 
        website.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
Representatives and the appropriate committee of the Senate a report 
that--
            (1) includes the guidance developed under subsection (a);
            (2) describes the methodology used to develop such 
        guidance; and
            (3) provides information about who was consulted in the 
        development of such guidance.
    (d) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) High-risk location.--The term ``high-risk location'' 
        means an area--
                    (A) that is likely to have lead service lines; and
                    (B) in which an environmental justice community is 
                located.
            (2) Lead service line.--The term ``lead service line'' has 
        the meaning given such term in section 1459B(a) of the Safe 
        Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-19b(a)).
            (3) Public water system.--The term ``public water system'' 
        has the meaning given such term in section 1401 of the Safe 
        Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f).
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