S. 1578 (112th): End Unnecessary Mailers Act of 2011

S 1578 IS

To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to consumer confidence reports by community water systems.

September 19, 2011

Mr. TOOMEY (for himself and Mr. BOOZMAN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to consumer confidence reports by community water systems.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘End Unnecessary Mailers Act of 2011’.

SEC. 2. CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORTS BY COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEMS.

(a) Method of Delivering Report- Section 1414(c)(4)(A) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-3(c)(4)(A)) is amended--

(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘The Administrator, in consultation’ and inserting the following:

‘(i) IN GENERAL- The Administrator, in consultation’;

(2) in clause (i) (as designated by paragraph (1)), in the first sentence, by striking ‘to mail to each customer’ and inserting ‘to provide, in accordance with clause (ii) or (iii), as applicable, to each customer’; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:

‘(ii) MAILING REQUIREMENT FOR VIOLATION OF MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL- If a violation of the maximum contaminant level for any regulated contaminant has occurred during the year concerned, the regulations under clause (i) shall require the applicable community water system to mail a copy of the consumer confidence report to each customer of the system.

‘(iii) MAILING REQUIREMENT ABSENT ANY VIOLATION OF MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL-

‘(I) IN GENERAL- If no violation of the maximum contaminant level for any regulated contaminant has occurred during the year concerned, the regulations under clause (i) shall require the applicable community water system to make the consumer confidence report available by, at the discretion of the community water system--

‘(aa) mailing a copy of the consumer confidence report to each customer of the system; or

‘(bb) subject to subclause (II), making a copy of the consumer confidence report available on a publicly accessible Internet site of the community water system and by mail, at the request of a customer.

‘(II) REQUIREMENTS- If a community water system elects to provide consumer confidence reports to consumers under subclause (I)(bb), the community water system shall provide to each customer of the community water system, in plain language and in the same manner (such as in printed or electronic form) in which the customer has elected to pay the bill of the customer, notice that--

‘(aa) the community water system has remained in compliance with the maximum contaminant level for each regulated contaminant during the year concerned; and

‘(bb) a consumer confidence report is available on a publicly accessible Internet site of the community water system and, on request, by mail.’.

(b) Conforming Amendments- Section 1414(c)(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-3(c)(4)) is amended--

(1) in subparagraph (C), in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ‘mailing requirement of subparagraph (A)’ and inserting ‘mailing requirement of clause (ii) or (iii) of subparagraph (A)’; and

(2) in subparagraph (D), in the first sentence of the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ‘mailing requirement of subparagraph (A)’ and inserting ‘mailing requirement of clause (ii) or (iii) of subparagraph (A)’.

(c) Application; Administrative Actions-

(1) IN GENERAL- The amendments made by this section take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

(2) REGULATIONS- Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall promulgate any revised regulations and take any other actions necessary to carry out the amendments made by this section.

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