S.Amdt. 370

SA 370. Mrs. GILLIBRAND submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense,
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal
year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

SEC. ___. MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS.

Section 1412(b)(2) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42
U.S.C. 300g-1(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(D) Perfluorinated compounds.--
``(i) Required regulations.--Not later than 2 years after
the date of enactment of the Protect Drinking Water from PFAS
Act of 2019, the Administrator shall publish a maximum
contaminant level and promulgate a national primary drinking
water regulation for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl
substances.
``(ii) Monitoring.--In establishing monitoring requirements
under the national primary drinking water regulation for
perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances under clause
(i), the Administrator shall--

``(I) consider options for tailoring monitoring
requirements for public water systems that do not detect, or
are reliably and consistently below the maximum contaminant
level for, those substances; and
``(II) prioritize the use of existing authorities to
provide technical assistance and funding to help small,
rural, or disadvantaged public water systems to comply with
the national primary drinking water regulation.''.

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