S.Amdt. 5004

SA 5004. Mrs. GILLIBRAND submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 4979 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill S.
2848, to provide for the conservation and development of water and
related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct
various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United
States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table;
as follows:

At the end subtitle A of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 71__. MONITORING FOR UNREGULATED CONTAMINANTS.

Section 1445 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C.
300j-4) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(2)--
(A) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the
following:
``(A) Establishment.--
``(i) In general.--The Administrator shall promulgate
regulations establishing the criteria for a monitoring
program for unregulated contaminants for all public water
systems, regardless of the number of people served by a
public water system.
``(ii) Requirements.--In promulgating regulations under
clause (i), the Administrator shall--

``(I) require the monitoring of drinking water supplied by
public water systems; and
``(II) vary the frequency and schedule for monitoring
requirements for public water systems based on--

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``(aa) the number of people served by a public water
system;
``(bb) the source of the water supply; and
``(cc) the contaminants likely to be found in the water
supply.''; and
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``(i) In general'' and
all that follows through ``(ii) Grants for small system
costs--''; and
(2) in subsection (g), by striking paragraph (7) and
inserting the following:
``(7) Unregulated contaminants.--With respect to
contaminants for which a national primary drinking water
regulation has not been established, the data base shall
include--
``(A) monitoring information collected by public water
systems under subsection (a); and
``(B) other reliable and appropriate monitoring information
on the occurrence of the contaminants in public water systems
that is available to the Administrator.''.
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