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H.R. 4470: Safe Drinking Water Act Improved Compliance Awareness Act

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H.R. 4470: Safe Drinking Water Act Improved Compliance Awareness Act

114th Congress · introduced 2016-02-04 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2016-02-04 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: 1 recorded vote in our records. Latest: House roll call 67 (2016): On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended, HR4470 (2016-02-10), Passed. See all
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Safe Drinking Water Act Improved Compliance Awareness Act

Plain summary

Safe Drinking Water Act Improved Compliance Awareness Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require public water systems to notify their customers when a lead action level under national drinking water regulations is exceeded in more than 10% of customer taps sampled. (An action level is a level of contaminates which triggers a requirement for the public water system to take additional actions to control corrosion.) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must notify customers if the state or the public water system fails to notify the public within 24 hours of receiving notice from the EPA. Community water systems' consumer confidence reports must include: (1) a definition of "action level," and (2) the action level for contaminants detected in water provided by the public water system. The EPA must establish a strategic plan for conducting targeted outreach, education, technical assistance, and risk communication to populations affected by lead in the public water system. EPA employees must forward to the public water system and to the state information indicating that drinking water contains lead that exceeds a lead action level. The public water system must then disseminate this information to its customers along with its potential adverse effects on human health, corrective steps underway, and advice on whether customers should seek alternative water supplies. If the public water system or the state fails to disseminate the information, the EPA must disseminate it as soon as reasonably possible. (Sec. 3) The EPA must: (1) make information about lead in drinking water available to the public, and (2) carry out targeted outreach strategies that focus on educating groups that are at greater risk than the general population for adverse health effects from exposure to lead in drinking water.

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Official text

Safe Drinking Water Act Improved Compliance Awareness Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5] · 77 cosponsors

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Tim Walberg (R-MI), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), John R. Moolenaar (R-MI), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Joaquin Castro (D-TX), John Garamendi (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Mike Quigley (D-IL), H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Peter Welch (D-VT), Stacey E. Plaskett (D-VI), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA) and 17 more.

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The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr4470 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114