Title: Consumer Confidence Reports for Tomorrow Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Consumer Confidence Reports for Tomorrow Act
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise regulations about consumer confidence reports in order to increase their effectiveness and understandability. Currently, each community water system must mail their customers an annual consumer confidence report that provides information about local drinking water quality.
This bill directs the EPA to: (1) require quarterly consumer confidence reports for drinking water systems that include information about corrosion control efforts and exceedances of the maximum contaminant levels and violations of all kinds, and (2) issue a national consumer confidence report to Congress every two years.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3206 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3206

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require quarterly reporting, 
 improvement of consumer confidence reports, establishment of a nation 
          consumer confidence report, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2017

 Mrs. Dingell 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 quarterly reporting, 
 improvement of consumer confidence reports, establishment of a nation 
          consumer confidence report, 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 ``Consumer Confidence Reports for 
Tomorrow Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVED CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORTS.

    (a) Revisions.--Section 1414(c)(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(42 U.S.C. 300g-3(c)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subparagraph:
                    ``(F) Revisions.--Not later than 24 months after 
                the date of enactment of this subparagraph, the 
                Administrator, in consultation with the groups 
                identified in subparagraph (A), shall promulgate 
                revisions to the regulations issued pursuant to 
                subparagraph (A) to increase the effectiveness and 
                understandability of consumer confidence reports.''.
    (b) Quarterly Issuance.--The Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall require consumer confidence reports to be 
issued quarterly each year for drinking water systems.
    (c) Inclusions.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency shall require all consumer confidence reports to include--
            (1) corrosion control efforts; and
            (2) exceedances and violations of all kinds must be clearly 
        identified.

SEC. 3. IMPROVING EPA DATABASE FOR CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORTS.

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
maintain and keep current a searchable website providing access to 
consumer confidence reports, sortable by zip code and water system.

SEC. 4. NATIONAL CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORT.

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
issue a national consumer confidence report to Congress every 2 years.
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