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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not exceed 10 percent of that amount for anyone of the
following activities:
~'(A) To acquire land or conservation easements
pursuant to paragraph (1) (A) (i) .
"(B) To provide funding to implement voluntary,
incentive-based source water quality protection measures
pursuant to clauses (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (1) (A) .
"(C) To provide assistance through a capacity
development strategy pursuant to paragraph (1) (B) .
~~(D) To make expenditures to delineate or assess
source water protection areas pursuant to paragraph
(1) (e) .
"(E) To make expenditures to establish and
implement wellhead protection programs pursuant to
paragraph (1) (D) .
~'(3) Statutory construction.--Nothing in this section
creates or conveys any new authority to a State, political
subdivision of a State, or community water system for any new
regulatory measure, or limits any authority of a State,
political subdivision of a State or community water system.

"(I) Savings.--The failure or inability of any public water system
to receive funds under this section or any other loan or grant program,
or any delay in obtaining the funds, shall not alter the obligation of
the system to comply in a timely manner with all applicable drinking
water standards and requirements of this title.

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'~(m) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated to carry out the purposes of this section $599,000,000 for
the fiscal year 1994 and $1,000,000,000 for each of the fiscal years
1995 through 2003. To the extent amounts authorized to be appropriated
under this subsection in any fiscal year are not appropriated in that
fiscal year, such amounts are authorized to be appropriated in a
subsequent fiscal year (prior to the fiscal year 2004). Such sums shall
remain available until expended.
"(n) Health Effects Studies.--From funds appropriated pursuant to
this section for each fiscal year, the Administrator shall reserve
$10,000,000 for health effects studies on drinking water contaminants
authorized by the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996. In
allocating funds made available under this subsection, the Administrator
shall give priority to studies concerning the health effects of
cryptosporidium (as authorized by section 1458(c)), disinfection
byproducts (as authorized by section 1458(c)), and arsenic (as
authorized by section 1412(b) (12) (A)), and the implementation of a plan
for studies of subpopulations at greater risk of adverse effects (as
authorized by section 1458(a)).
"(0) Monitoring for Unregulated eontaminants.--From funds
appropriated pursuant to this section for each fiscal year beginning
with fiscal year 1998, the Administrator shall reserve $2,000,000 to pay
the costs of monitoring for unregulated contaminants under section
1445 (a) (2) (e) .
"(p) Demonstration Project for State of virginia.--Notwithstanding
the other provisions of this section limiting the use of funds deposited
in a State loan fund from any State allotment, the State of Virginia
may, as a single demonstration and with the approval of the Virginia
General Assembly and the Administrator, conduct a program to demonstrate
alternative approaches to intergovernmental coordination to assist in
the financing of new drinking water facilities in the following rural

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