S. 875: Drinking Water Right to Know Act

112th Congress · introduced 2011-05-03 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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Where it came from: introduced 2011-05-03 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Drinking Water Right to Know Act

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Drinking Water Right to Know Act - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require a public water system that detects an unregulated contaminant included in EPA's list of unregulated contaminants to be monitored by public water systems and included in the national drinking water occurrence data base, to continue to monitor for the detected contaminant for such period, at such frequency, and at such levels of concentration as the Administrator determines to be appropriate. Authorizes the data contained in the national drinking water contaminant occurrence data base to be used by the public. Requires the Administrator to: (1) evaluate the extent to which such data is accessible to and useable by the public; and (2) make such data more accessible to and useable by the public.

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Drinking Water Right to Know Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] · 0 cosponsors

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112s875.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/s>

Record fed-us-cong112-s875 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112