S.Amdt. 5047

SA 5047. Mr. BOOKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 4979 proposed by Mr. McConnell (for Mr. Inhofe (for
himself and Mrs. Boxer)) 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 of subtitle A of title VII, add the following

SEC. 71___. SCHOOL TESTING AND NOTIFICATION; GRANT PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--Section 1464 of the Safe Drinking Water
Act (42 U.S.C.300j-24) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(e) Testing and Notification Requirements for Public
Water Systems That Serve Schools.--Not later than 1 year
after the date of enactment of the Water Resources
Development Act of 2016, the Administrator shall promulgate a
regulation that--
``(1) requires--
``(A) each public water system that serves a school or
licensed childcare facility determined by the Administrator
to have a risk of lead in the drinking water at a level that
meets or exceeds the lead action level established by the
Administrator under section 1412(b) to offer to the local
educational agency that operates the school assistance in
sampling for lead in the drinking water of the school;
``(B) in the case of a local educational agency that
accepts assistance in sampling for lead in the drinking water
of the school, the public water system to sample for lead;
and
``(2) requires a public water system that provides
assistance under paragraph (1) and obtains the sampling
results for a school to provide the sampling results to the
local educational agency that has jurisdiction over the
school and the head of the State agency that has primary
responsibility to carry out this title in the State not later
than 5 business days after the date on which the public water
system receives the sampling results.
``(f) School Lead Testing and Remediation Grant Program.--
``(1) Definition of eligible entity.--In this subsection,
the term `eligible entity' means--
``(A) a local educational agency (as defined in section
8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 7801));
``(B) a public water system that provides assistance to a
local education agency under subsection (e)(1); or
``(C) a State agency that administers a statewide program
to test for, or remediate, lead contamination in drinking
water.
``(2) Grants authorized.--Not later than 1 year after the
date of enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall
establish a grant program to make grants available to
eligible entities to test for, or remediate, lead
contamination in school drinking water.
``(3) Use of funds.--An eligible entity that receives a
grant under this subsection may use grant funds--
``(A) to recover the costs incurred by the eligible entity
for testing for lead contamination in school drinking water
conducted by the eligible entity or another entity approved
by the Administrator or the State to conduct the testing; or
``(B) to replace lead pipes and short-term measures, pipe
fittings, plumbing fittings, and fixtures of any school with
drinking water that contains a level of lead that exceeds the
action level established by the Administrator under section
1412(b) with lead free (as defined in section 1417) pipes,
pipe fittings, plumbing fittings, and fixtures.
``(4) Guidance; public availability.--As a condition of
receiving a grant under this subsection, an eligible entity
shall--
``(A) expend grant funds in accordance with--
``(i) the guidance of the Environmental Protection Agency
entitled `3Ts for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in Schools:
Revised Technical Guidance' and dated October 2006 (or any
successor guidance); or
``(ii) applicable State regulations or guidance regarding
the reduction of lead in drinking water in schools that is
consistent with the guidance referred to in clause (i), as
determined by the Administrator;
``(B) make publicly available, including, to the maximum
extent practicable, on the Internet website of the eligible
entity, a copy of the results of any testing for lead
contamination in school drinking water that is carried out
with funds under this subsection; and
``(C) notify parent, teacher, and employee organizations of
the availability of the results described in subparagraph
(B).''.
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