Title: To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program to assist eligible entities in carrying out programs to replace lead service lines for schools and solder that is not lead free used in the plumbing for schools, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program to help schools and day cares in replacing service lines and solder that are not lead free. The program may fund activities for identifying the location and condition of the service lines and solder.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4907 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4907

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of 
  the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program to 
   assist eligible entities in carrying out programs to replace lead 
service lines for schools and solder that is not lead free used in the 
             plumbing for schools, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2018

  Mr. Rush (for himself, Mr. Pallone, and Mrs. Bustos) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of 
  the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program to 
   assist eligible entities in carrying out programs to replace lead 
service lines for schools and solder that is not lead free used in the 
             plumbing for schools, 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. SCHOOL LEAD PIPE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM.

    Part F of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-21 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 1465. SCHOOL LEAD PIPE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM.

    ``(a) Eligible Entity.--In this section, the term `eligible entity' 
means--
            ``(1) a local educational agency; or
            ``(2) a public water system.
    ``(b) Grant Program.--
            ``(1) Establishment.--Not later than 180 days after the 
        date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall 
        establish a grant program to assist eligible entities in 
        carrying out programs to replace lead service lines for schools 
        and solder that is not lead free used in the plumbing for 
        schools. Such a program--
                    ``(A) shall include replacing lead service lines 
                and solder that is not lead free; and
                    ``(B) may include testing, planning, or carrying 
                out other relevant activities, as determined by the 
                Administrator, to identify the location and condition 
                of lead service lines and solder that is not lead free.
            ``(2) Priority application.--In providing assistance under 
        this section, the Administrator shall give priority to proposed 
        programs for schools for which, at any time during the 3-year 
        period preceding the date of submission of an application of 
        the eligible entity, monitoring data has indicated elevated 
        lead levels in the school drinking water.
    ``(c) Lead Service Line Defined.--For purposes of this section, the 
term `lead service line' has the meaning given that term in section 
1459B.
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $50,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2019 through 2023.''.
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