Title: Protect Drinking Water from PFAS Act of 2019
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Protect Drinking Water from PFAS Act of 2019
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a maximum contaminant level goal as well as a national primary drinking water regulation for certain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS. The substances are man-made and may have adverse human health effects. A variety of products contain PFAS, such as nonstick cookware or weatherproof clothing.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1473 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1473

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 15, 2019

Mrs. Gillibrand (for herself and Mrs. Capito) 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 set maximum contaminant levels 
             for certain chemicals, 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 ``Protect Drinking Water from PFAS Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. 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.--
                            ``(i) Required regulations.--Not later than 
                        2 years after the date of enactment of the 
                        Protect Drinking Water from PFAS Act of 2019, 
                        the Administrator shall publish a maximum 
                        contaminant level and promulgate a national 
                        primary drinking water regulation for 
                        perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
                            ``(ii) Monitoring.--In establishing 
                        monitoring requirements under the national 
                        primary drinking water regulation for 
                        perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances 
                        under clause (i), the Administrator shall--
                                    ``(I) consider options for 
                                tailoring monitoring requirements for 
                                public water systems that do not 
                                detect, or are reliably and 
                                consistently below the maximum 
                                contaminant level for, those 
                                substances; and
                                    ``(II) prioritize the use of 
                                existing authorities to provide 
                                technical assistance and funding to 
                                help small, rural, or disadvantaged 
                                public water systems to comply with the 
                                national primary drinking water 
                                regulation.''.
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