Title: To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish a maximum contaminant level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for perfluorinated compounds (including perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid), and for other purposes.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address the level of perfluorinated compounds, including perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid, in drinking water. Specifically, the EPA must publish a maximum contaminant level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for perfluorinated compounds within two years. Perfluorinated compounds are manufactured compounds that are used in an array of consumer products and that accumulate in human blood.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3106 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3106

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of 
 the Environmental Protection Agency to publish a maximum contaminant 
level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation 
 for perfluorinated compounds (including perfluorooctanesulfonic acid 
          and perfluorooctanoic acid), and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 2017

  Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Pallone, Mr. 
Tonko, Mr. Meehan, and Mr. Fitzpatrick) 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 publish a maximum contaminant 
level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation 
 for perfluorinated compounds (including perfluorooctanesulfonic acid 
          and perfluorooctanoic acid), 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. DEADLINE FOR REGULATIONS ON PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS.

    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.--Notwithstanding 
                any other deadline established in this subsection, not 
                later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this 
                subparagraph, the Administrator shall publish a maximum 
                contaminant level goal and promulgate a national 
                primary drinking water regulation for perfluorinated 
                compounds (including perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and 
                perfluorooctanoic acid).''.
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