Perchlorate Monitoring and Right-to-Know Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-24
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aviation fuels
Chemicals
Child health
Commerce
Consumer education
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Explosives
Families
Fetus
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health warnings
Infants
Infrastructure
Law
Potable water
Pregnant women
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water supply
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Perchlorate Monitoring and Right-to-Know Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish a health advisory for perchlorate that fully protects the health of vulnerable persons (including pregnant women, fetuses, and children) considering body weight, exposure patterns, and all routes of exposure; and (2) promulgate a final regulation requiring monitoring for perchlorate in drinking water. Makes such regulation effective unless and until monitoring for perchlorate is required under a national primary drinking water regulation.
 
Requires consumer confidence reports to disclose the presence and health risks of perchlorate in drinking water.

action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Perchlorate Monitoring and Right-to-Know Act of 2008 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish (within 90 days) a health advisory for perchlorate that is fully protective, with an adequate margin of safety, of the health of vulnerable persons (including pregnant women, infants, and children), considering body weight, exposure patterns, and all routes of exposure; (2) propose (within 60 days) and promulgate (within 120 days) a final regulation requiring public water systems to monitor for perchlorate, which shall be in effect until monitoring for perchlorate is required under a national primary drinking water regulation; and (3) require consumer confidence reports by community water systems to disclose the presence of perchlorate in drinking water and the potential health risks to vulnerable persons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1054.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-483. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-483. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2008-05-06
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S64)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S63-64)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate