This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to revise requirements concerning national primary drinking water regulations, including by:
removing a requirement that the Environmental Protection Agency maintain, or provide greater, protection of human health when revising those regulations;
extending the repayment schedule for loans from the drinking water state revolving funds (SRF);
removing certain SRF matching fund requirement for states;
authorizing states to protect public drinking water source areas; and
removing federal reporting requirements if state or local requirements are at least equally stringent as federal requirements.
Actions
Dec 1, 2016
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.