Title: Get the Lead Out Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Get the Lead Out Act
This bill requires community water systems serving populations of 3,300 or more to submit to the Environmental Protection Agency a plan to inventory and replace all the lead service lines of the system within 10 years.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7918 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7918

  To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to replacement of 
              lead service lines, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2020

 Mr. Smith of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. Cuellar) 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 with respect to replacement of 
              lead service lines, 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 ``Get the Lead Out Act''.

SEC. 2. PLANS FOR REPLACEMENT OF LEAD SERVICE LINES.

    (a) In General.--Part E of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 1459E. REPLACEMENT OF LEAD SERVICE LINES.

    ``(a) Plans.--
            ``(1) Submission.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the 
                date of enactment of this section, each community water 
                system serving a population of 3,300 or more shall 
                submit to the Administrator a plan to inventory and 
                replace all the lead service lines of the community 
                water system, including the portions of such lead 
                service lines that are owned by the community water 
                system and any remaining portions of such lead service 
                lines.
                    ``(B) Small systems.--The Administrator shall 
                require community water systems serving fewer than 
                3,300 persons to submit a plan under this section at 
                such time as the Administrator determines appropriate.
            ``(2) Inclusions.--Each plan submitted under this 
        subsection shall include a plan and schedule for--
                    ``(A) notifying persons served by the applicable 
                community water system that, if authorized, the 
                community water system will install interim filters 
                that meet the criteria under paragraph (3) on all 
                drinking water taps served by the community water 
                system with lead service lines;
                    ``(B) installing such interim filters; and
                    ``(C) replacing all the lead service lines of the 
                community water system not later than 10 years after 
                such plan is approved.
            ``(3) Filter criteria.--Interim filters, and any 
        replacement thereof, installed pursuant to a plan under this 
        section--
                    ``(A) shall--
                            ``(i) be certified as compliant with NSF 
                        International/American National Standards 
                        Institute (`ANSI') Standard 53-2017, `Drinking 
                        Water Treatment Units--Health Effects', 
                        published by NSF International; and
                            ``(ii) incorporate an integral performance 
                        indication device as specified in section 6.1 
                        of NSF/ANSI standard 53-2017; or
                    ``(B) shall be certified as compliant with any 
                standards adopted by NSF International, ANSI, or the 
                Agency that are more stringent than the standards under 
                subparagraph (A).
    ``(b) Approval.--Not later than 6 months after a community water 
system submits a plan under this section, the Administrator shall 
approve the plan or notify the community water system in writing of 
revisions the Administrator determines necessary to approve the plan.
    ``(c) Implementation.--Not later than 10 years after a plan under 
this section of a community water system is approved by the 
Administrator, the community water system shall submit to the 
Administrator a certification that all the lead service lines of the 
community water system have been replaced except for any lead service 
line not owned by the community water system and with respect to which 
the owner has declined replacement by the community water system.
    ``(d) Extension.--
            ``(1) Application.--A community water system may submit an 
        application to the Administrator for an extension of the 10-
        year deadline described in subsection (c).
            ``(2) Approval.--The Administrator shall approve an 
        application for an extension under paragraph (1) only if--
                    ``(A) the community water system submitting the 
                application has held a public hearing and solicited 
                public comment prior to submitting the application; and
                    ``(B) the Administrator determines that lead 
                service line replacement by the community water system 
                is not feasible by the 10-year deadline described in 
                subsection (c).
            ``(3) Period of extension.--The Administrator may only 
        grant an extension under this subsection for the minimum period 
        of time necessary for the applicable community water system to 
        replace all lead service lines of the community water system.
    ``(e) Enforcement Authority.--The Administrator may take action to 
enforce a requirement of this section pursuant to section 1414(a)(2) 
with respect to a community water system in a State regardless of 
whether the State has primary enforcement responsibility for public 
water systems.
    ``(f) Definition.--In this section, the term `lead service line' 
has the meaning given such term in section 1459B(a).
    ``(g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2021 and 2022.''.
    (b) Enforcement.--Section 1414(i)(1) of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(42 U.S.C. 300g-3(i)(1)) is amended by striking ``or 1445'' and 
inserting ``1445, or 1459E''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATIONS.

    (a) State Revolving Loan Funds.--Section 1452(m)(1)(C) of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12(m)(1)(C)) is amended by striking 
``$1,950,000,000 for fiscal year 2021'' and inserting ``$6,600,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2021 and 2022''.
    (b) Reducing Lead in Drinking Water.--Subsection (d) of section 
1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-19b) is amended to 
read as follows:
    ``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section--
            ``(1) $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 
        2020; and
            ``(2) $80,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 and 
        2022.''.
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