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[CITE: 42USC300j-21]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
             SUBCHAPTER XII--SAFETY OF PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS
 
  Part F--Additional Requirements To Regulate Safety of Drinking Water
 
Sec. 300j-21. Definitions

    As used in this part--

                      (1) Drinking water cooler

        The term ``drinking water cooler'' means any mechanical device 
    affixed to drinking water supply plumbing which actively cools water 
    for human consumption.

                            (2) Lead free

        The term ``lead free'' means, with respect to a drinking water 
    cooler, that each part or component of the cooler which may come in 
    contact with drinking water contains not more than 8 percent lead, 
    except that no drinking water cooler which contains any solder, 
    flux, or storage tank interior surface which may come in contact 
    with drinking water shall be considered lead free if the solder, 
    flux, or storage tank interior surface contains more than 0.2 
    percent lead. The Administrator may establish more stringent 
    requirements for treating any part or component of a drinking water 
    cooler as lead free for purposes of this part whenever he determines 
    that any such part may constitute an important source of lead in 
    drinking water.

                    (3) Local educational agency

        The term ``local educational agency'' means--
            (A) any local educational agency as defined in section 8801 
        of title 20,
            (B) the owner of any private, nonprofit elementary or 
        secondary school building, and
            (C) the governing authority of any school operating under 
        the defense dependent's education system provided for under the 
        Defense Dependent's Education Act of 1978 (20 U.S.C. 921 and 
        following).

                             (4) Repair

        The term ``repair'' means, with respect to a drinking water 
    cooler, to take such corrective action as is necessary to ensure 
    that water cooler is lead free.

                           (5) Replacement

        The term ``replacement'', when used with respect to a drinking 
    water cooler, means the permanent removal of the water cooler and 
    the installation of a lead free water cooler.

                             (6) School

        The term ``school'' means any elementary school or secondary 
    school as defined in section 8801 of title 20 and any kindergarten 
    or day care facility.

                         (7) Lead-lined tank

        The term ``lead-lined tank'' means a water reservoir container 
    in a drinking water cooler which container is constructed of lead or 
    which has an interior surface which is not lead free.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIV, Sec. 1461, as added Pub. L. 100-572, 
Sec. 2(a), Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2884; amended Pub. L. 103-382, title 
III, Sec. 391(p), Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 4024; Pub. L. 104-182, title 
V, Sec. 501(f)(7), Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1692.)

                       References in Text

    The Defense Dependent's Education Act of 1978, referred to in par. 
(3)(C), probably means the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978, 
title XIV of Pub. L. 95-561, Nov. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 2365, as amended, 
which is classified principally to chapter 25A (Sec. 921 et seq.) of 
Title 20, Education. For complete classification of this Act to the 
Code, see Short Title note set out under section 921 of Title 20 and 
Tables.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-182 made technical amendment to section catchline 
and first word of text.
    1994--Par. (3)(A). Pub. L. 103-382, Sec. 391(p)(1), substituted 
``section 8801 of title 20'' for ``section 198 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 3381)''.
    Par. (6). Pub. L. 103-382, Sec. 391(p)(2), substituted ``section 
8801 of title 20'' for ``section 198 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 2854)''.
