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Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Bill TextTo allow small public water systems to request an exemption from the requirements of any national primary drinking water regulation for a naturally occurring contaminant, and for other purposes. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Small Community Options for Regulatory Equity Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require states exercising primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems to exempt any nonprofit small public water system (serving 10,000 or fewer persons) that so requests in accordance with this Act from the requirements of any national primary drinking water regulation for naturally occurring contaminants, including arsenic, radon, radium, uranium, and specified disinfection byproducts. Requires exemption requests to include a finding that the system's compliance with applicable national primary drinking water regulations is not economically feasible. Precludes judicial or administrative review of such findings.
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Latest Action: 12/18/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Bill TextA bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to prevent the enforcement of certain national primary drinking water regulations unless sufficient funding is available or variance technology has been identified. 12/18/2007--Introduced. Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): (1) to convene a working group to study barriers to using specified treatments; (2) to develop model guidance to assist states in regulating and promoting such treatment options; and (3) when establishing affordability criteria for variance technology, to consider specified cost factors, to give extra weight to households below the poverty level and to communities that meet state affordability criteria, and to ensure that the criteria are not more costly, on a per-capita basis, to a small public water system than the per capita cost to a large water system of acquiring feasible technology. [...] show full description
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Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Budgets, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Environmental health, Environmental protection, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental research, Environmental technology, Executive departments, Federal aid to water pollution control, Governmental investigations, Hazardous substances, Infrastructure, Law, Medical care, Medicine, Potable water, Research and development, Revolving funds, Science policy, Technology, Technology transfer, Waste water treatment, Water pollution, Water pollution control, Water purification, Water resources, Water treatment plants
Latest Action: 12/18/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Bill TextA bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to prevent the enforcement of certain national primary drinking water regulations unless sufficient funding is available or variance technology has been identified. 12/18/2007--Introduced. Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): (1) to convene a working group to study barriers to using specified treatments; (2) to develop model guidance to assist states in regulating and promoting such treatment options; and (3) when establishing affordability criteria for variance technology, to consider specified cost factors, to give extra weight to households below the poverty level and to communities that meet state affordability criteria, and to ensure that the criteria are not more costly, on a per-capita basis, to a small public water system than the per capita cost to a large water system of acquiring feasible technology. [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative remedies, Environmental protection, Environmental Protection Agency, Executive departments, Hazardous substances, Law, Nonprofit organizations, Politics and government, Potable water, Public utilities, Radon, Social services, Standards, State and local government, State politics and government, Uranium, Water pollution, Water pollution control, Water quality, Water resources
Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Bill TextTo allow small public water systems to request an exemption from the requirements of any national primary drinking water regulation for a naturally occurring contaminant, and for other purposes. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Small Community Options for Regulatory Equity Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require states exercising primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems to exempt any nonprofit small public water system (serving 10,000 or fewer persons) that so requests in accordance with this Act from the requirements of any national primary drinking water regulation for naturally occurring contaminants, including arsenic, radon, radium, uranium, and specified disinfection byproducts. Requires exemption requests to include a finding that the system's compliance with applicable national primary drinking water regulations is not economically feasible. Precludes judicial or administrative review of such findings.
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