Title: A bill to amend the Safe Water Drinking Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish maximum contaminant levels for certain contaminants, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Environmental Protection Agency, within two years, to publish maximum contaminant level goals and promulgate national primary drinking water regulations for perfluorooctanoic acid; perfluorooctanesulfonic acid; 1,4-dioxane; and perchlorate.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 519 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 519

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of 
 the Environmental Protection Agency to establish maximum contaminant 
        levels for certain contaminants, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 2, 2017

Mrs. Gillibrand (for herself and Mr. Schumer) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of 
 the Environmental Protection Agency to establish maximum contaminant 
        levels for certain contaminants, 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. MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS.

    Section 1412(b)(2) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-
1(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Perfluorinated compounds.--Not later than 2 
                years after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, 
                with respect to the perfluorinated compounds 
                perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic 
                acid, the Administrator shall--
                            ``(i) publish a maximum contaminant level 
                        goal; and
                            ``(ii) promulgate a national primary 
                        drinking water regulation.
                    ``(E) 1,4-dioxane.--Not later than 2 years after 
                the date of enactment of this subparagraph, with 
                respect to 1,4-dioxane, the Administrator shall--
                            ``(i) publish a maximum contaminant level 
                        goal; and
                            ``(ii) promulgate a national primary 
                        drinking water regulation.
                    ``(F) Perchlorate.--Not later than 2 years after 
                the date of enactment of this subparagraph, with 
                respect to perchlorate, the Administrator shall--
                            ``(i) publish a maximum contaminant level 
                        goal; and
                            ``(ii) promulgate a national primary 
                        drinking water regulation.''.
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