A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to establish a program to provide assistance to small communities for use in carrying out projects and activities necessary to achieve or maintain compliance with drinking water standards.
Provides temporary relief from enforcement by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of drinking water standards for such systems during and after the grant application process.
Delays implementation or enforcement by the Administrator of an arsenic standard in any State until the earlier of January 1, 2006, or the date on which the Administrator certifies that the program has been implemented in that State and the State has made substantial progress in drinking water standards compliance.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9639-9640)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9640-9641)
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