Title: To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide assistance to schools to replace drinking water fountains that may contain lead, 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 that assists local educational agencies in replacing drinking water fountains located in schools or day care facilities with fountains that are lead-free. Grant recipients may also use funding for monitoring and reporting lead levels in the drinking water of schools or day care facilities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4908 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4908

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide assistance to schools 
  to replace drinking water fountains that may contain lead, 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 provide assistance to schools 
  to replace drinking water fountains that may contain lead, 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. 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 adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 1465. DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN REPLACEMENT FOR SCHOOLS.

    ``(a) Establishment.--Not later than 180 days 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 replacement 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 schools of a 
        local educational agency receiving such funds, as determined 
        appropriate by the Administrator.
    ``(c) 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 2019 through 2023.''.
    (b) Definitions.--Section 1461 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j-21) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by inserting ``or drinking water fountain'' 
                after ``drinking water cooler'' each place it appears; 
                and
                    (B) by inserting ``or fountain'' after ``the 
                cooler''; and
            (2) in paragraph (5), by inserting ``or drinking water 
        fountain'' after ``water cooler'' each place it appears.
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