PUBLIC LAW 104-182—AUG. 6, 1996 110 STAT. 1673 "(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. —T here are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1997 through 2003.". SEC. 132. SOURCE WATER ASSESSMENT. (a) IN GENERAL. — Part E (42 U.S.C. 300j et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: "SOURCE WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT "SEC. 1453. (a) SOURCE WATER ASSESSMENT.— 42 USC 300j-i3. "(1) GUIDANCE. — Within 12 months after the date of enact- Publication, ment of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, after notice and comment, the Administrator shall publish guidance for States exercising primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems to carry out directly or through delegation (for the protection and benefit of public water systems and for the support of monitoring flexibility) a source water assessment program within the State's boundaries. Each State adopting modiflcations to monitoring requirements pursuant to section 1418(b) shall, prior to adopting such modifications, have an approved source water assessment program under this section and shall carry out the program either directly or through delegation. "(2) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.— A source water assessment program under this subsection shall— "(A) delineate the boundaries of the assessment areas in such State from which one or more public water systems in the State receive supplies of drinking water, using all reasonably available hydrogeologic information on the sources of the supply of drinking water in the State and the water flow, recnarge, and discharge and any other reliable information as the State deems necessary to adequately determine such areas; and "(B) identify for contaminsmts regulated under this title for which monitoring is required under this title (or any unregulated contsmiinants selected by the State, in its discretion, which the State, for the purposes of this subsection, has determined may present a threat to public health), to the extent practical, the origins within each delineated area of such contaminants to determine the susceptibility of the public water systems in the delineated area to such contaminants. "(3) APPROVAL, IMPLEMENTATION, AND MONITORING RELIEF.—A State source water assessment program under this subsection shall be submitted to the Administrator within 18 months after the Administrator's guidance is issued under this subsection and shall be deemed approved 9 months after the date of such submittal unless the Administrator disapproves the program as provided in section 1428(c). States shall begin implementation of the program immediately after its approval. The Administrator's approval of a State program under this subsection shall include a timetable, established in consultation with the State, allowing not more than 2 years for completion after approval of the program. Public water systems seeking monitoring relief in addition to the interim relief provided under section 1418(a) shall be eligible for monitoring relief, consistent with section 1418(b), upon completion of the assess-
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