LEG00140

• Bill Number: PUB104-182
• Year: 1996
• Title: To reauthorize and amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act ‎(Commonly Known as the "Safe Drinking Water Act")‎ and for Other Purposes
• Legislation - Doc Type: Congressional Legislative Information

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States, the Administrator shall issue a list of
technologies that achieve compliance with the
maximum contaminant level or treatment technique
for each category of public water systems
described in subclauses (I), (II), and (III) of
clause (ii) for each national primary drinking
water regulation promulgated prior to the date of
enactment of this paragraph.
"(iv) Addition~l technologies.--The
Administrator may, at any time after a national
primary drinking water regulation has been
promulgated, supplement the list of technologies
describing additional or new or innovative
treatment technologies that meet the requirements
of this paragraph for categories of small public
water systems described in subclauses (I), (II),
and (III) of clause (ii) that are subject to the
regulation.
"(v) <<NOTE: Records.>> Technologies that
meet surface water treatment rule.--Within one
year after the date of enactment of this clause,
the Administrator sball list technologies that
meet the Surface Water Treatment Rule for each
category of public water systems described in
subclauses (I), (II), and (III) of clause (ii).".

SEC. 106. LIMITED ALTERNATIVE TO FILTRATION.

Section l4l2(b) (7) (C) (42 U.S.C. 300g-1(b) (7) (C)) is amended by
adding the following after clause (iv):
"(v) As an additional alternative to the regulations promulgated
pursuant to clauses (i) and (iii), including the criteria for avoiding
filtration contained in 40 CFR 141.71, a state exercising primary
enforcement responsibility for public water systems may, on a case-by-
case basis, and after notice and opportunity for public comment,
establish treatment requirements as an alternative to filtration in the
case of systems having uninhabited, undeveloped watersheds in
consolidated ownership, and having control over access to, and
activities in, those watersheds, if the State determines (and the
Administrator concurs) that the quality of the source water and the
alternative treatment requirements established by the State ensure
greater removal or inactivation efficiencies of pathogenic organisms for
which national primary drinking water regulations have been promulgated
or that are of public health concern than would be achieved by the
combination of filtration and chlorine disinfection (in compliance with
this section). I I .

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SEC. 107. <<NOTE: Regulations.>> GROUND WATER DISINFECTION.

Paragraph (8) of section 1412(b) (42 U.S.C. 300g-1(b) (8)) is amended
by moving the margins of such paragraph 2 ems to the right and by
striking the first sentence and inserting the following:
"Disinfection.--At any time after the end of the 3-year period that
begins on the date of enactment of the Safe Drinking Water Act
Amendments of 1996, but not later than the date on which the
Administrator promulgates a Stage II rulemaking for disinfectants and
disinfection byproducts (as described in p~ragraph (2) (C)), the
Administrator shall also promulgate national primary drinking water

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