Consumer Confidence Reports for Tomorrow Act

Bill: 115-hr-3206
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2017-07-12
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Congressional oversight

Consumer affairs

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environmental regulatory procedures

Government information and archives

Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Materials

Metals

Public utilities and utility rates

Water quality

Water use and supply
Latest action: action_date: 2017-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-07-12
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Consumer Confidence Reports for Tomorrow Act</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> In addition, the EPA must maintain and keep current a searchable website providing access to consumer confidence reports, sortable by zip code and water system.

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3206 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 12, 2017 Mrs. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Consumer Confidence Reports for Tomorrow Act . 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. 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. 4. National consumer confidence report The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall issue a national consumer confidence report to Congress every 2 years.