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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1324 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to modify eligibility for the State |
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| 6 | 6 | | response to contaminants program, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | APRIL8, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mrs. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | HAHEEN(for herself, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. KING, Mr. KELLY, and Mr. |
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| 11 | 11 | | H |
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| 12 | 12 | | EINRICH) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and re- |
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| 13 | 13 | | ferred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to modify eligibility |
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| 16 | 16 | | for the State response to contaminants program, and |
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| 17 | 17 | | for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. TECHNICAL FIX FOR STATE RESPONSE TO CON-3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | TAMINANTS PROGRAM. 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Section 1459A(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | U.S.C. 300j–19a(j)) is amended— 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (1) in paragraph (1)— 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 8 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (A), by striking ‘‘subsection (c)(2)’’ and insert-9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •S 1324 IS |
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| 30 | 30 | | ing ‘‘clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (A) of 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | paragraph (3) or a drinking water well owner 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | described in subparagraph (B) of that para-3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | graph’’; 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (B) by striking ‘‘contaminant—’’ and all 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | that follows through ‘‘to—’’ in subparagraph 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (A) in the matter preceding clause (i) and in-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | serting ‘‘contaminant that is determined by the 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | State—’’; 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (C) by striking subparagraph (B); 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (D) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | indenting appropriately; 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (E) in subparagraph (A) (as so redesig-14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | nated)— 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (i) by inserting ‘‘to’’ before ‘‘be 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | present’’; 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (ii) by striking ‘‘serving,’’ and insert-18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ing ‘‘serving a community’’; and 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (iii) by striking ‘‘for, that commu-20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | nity’’; and 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (F) in subparagraph (B) (as so redesig-22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | nated)— 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (i) by inserting ‘‘to’’ before ‘‘poten-24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | tially’’; and 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | •S 1324 IS |
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| 58 | 58 | | (ii) by striking ‘‘; and’’ at the end and 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | inserting a period; and 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(3) E |
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| 62 | 62 | | LIGIBILITY FOR ASSISTANCE OR AS A 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | BENEFICIARY OF ASSISTANCE .—For purposes of this 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | subsection, the Administrator may issue a grant to 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | a State— 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(A) that is requesting a grant on behalf 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | of— 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(i) a community that, under the af-10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | fordability criteria established by the State 11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | under section 1452(d)(3), is determined by 12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | the State to be— 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ‘‘(I) a disadvantaged community; 14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | or 15 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(II) a community that may be-16 |
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| 75 | 75 | | come a disadvantaged community as a 17 |
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| 76 | 76 | | result of carrying out an activity de-18 |
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| 77 | 77 | | scribed in paragraph (1); or 19 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ‘‘(ii) a community with a population 20 |
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| 79 | 79 | | of fewer than 10,000 individuals that the 21 |
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| 80 | 80 | | Administrator determines does not have 22 |
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| 81 | 81 | | the capacity to incur debt sufficient to fi-23 |
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| 82 | 82 | | nance an activity described in paragraph 24 |
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| 83 | 83 | | (1); or 25 |
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| 86 | 86 | | •S 1324 IS |
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| 87 | 87 | | ‘‘(B) for the benefit of 1 or more owners 1 |
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| 88 | 88 | | of drinking water wells that are not public 2 |
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| 89 | 89 | | water systems and are not connected to a public 3 |
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| 90 | 90 | | water system.’’. 4 |
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