A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require a health advisory and monitoring of drinking water for perchlorate.
Perchlorate Monitoring and Right-to-Know Act of 2008 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish (within 90 days) a health advisory for perchlorate that is fully protective, with an adequate margin of safety, of the health of vulnerable persons (including pregnant women, infants, and children), considering body weight, exposure patterns, and all routes of exposure; (2) propose (within 60 days) and promulgate (within 120 days) a final regulation requiring public water systems to monitor for perchlorate, which shall be in effect until monitoring for perchlorate is required under a national primary drinking water regulation; and (3) require consumer confidence reports by community water systems to disclose the presence of perchlorate in drinking water and the potential health risks to vulnerable persons.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1055.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S63-64)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S64)
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held.
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-483. Minority views filed.
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-483. Minority views filed.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1054.
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