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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basis, to determine whether such person has acted or is acting in
compliance with this title.
"(C) Every person who is subject to a national primary drinking
water regulation under section 1412 shall provide such information as
the Administrator may reasonably require to assist the Administrator in
establishing regulations under section 1412 of this title, after
consultation with States and suppliers of water. The Administrator may
not require under this subparagraph the installation of treatment
equipment or process changes, the testing of treatment technology, or
the analysis or processing of monitoring samples, except where the
Administrator provides the funding for such activities. Before
exercising this authority, the Administrator shall first seek to obtain
the information by voluntary submission.
"(D) <<NOTE: Regulations.>> The Administrator shall not later than
2 years after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, after
consultation with public health experts, representatives of the general
public, and officials of State and local governments, review the
monitoring requirements for not fewer than 12 contaminants identified by
the Administrator, and promulgate any necessary modifications. r I.

(b) Monitoring Relief.--Part B is amended by adding the following
new section after section 1417 (42 u.s.e. 300g-6):

"Sec. 1418. <<NOTE: 42 use 300g-7.>> (a) Interim Monitoring Relief
Authority.--
"(1) In general.--A State exercising primary enforcement
responsibility for public water systems may modify the
monitoring requirements for any regulated or unregulated
contaminants for which monitoring is required other than
microbial contaminants (or indicators thereof), disinfectants
and disinfection byproducts or corrosion byproducts for an
interim period to provide that any public water system serving
10,000 persons or fewer shall not be required to conduct
additional quarterly monitoring during an interim relief period
for such contaminants if--
"(A) monitoring, conducted at the beginning of the
period for the contaminant concerned and certified to
the State by the public water system, fails to detect
the presence of the contaminant in the ground or surface
water supplying the public water system; and

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"(B) the State, considering the hydrogeology of the
area and other relevant factors, determines in writing
that the contaminant is unlikely to be detected by
further monitoring during such period.
"(2) Termination; timing of monitoring.--The interim relief
period referred to in paragraph (1) shall terminate when
permanent monitoring relief is adopted and approved for such
State, or at the end of 36 months after the date of enactment of
the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, whichever comes
first. In order to serve as a basis for interim relief, the
monitoring conducted at the beginning of the period must occur
at the time determined by the State to be the time of the public
water systemrs greatest vulnerability to the contaminant
concerned in the relevant ground or surface water, taking into
account in the case of pesticides the time of application of the
pesticide for the source water are~ and the travel time for the
pesticide to reach such waters and taking into account, in the

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