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[CITE: 42USC300j-24]

 
                 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-24. Lead contamination in school drinking water


(a) Distribution of drinking water cooler list

    Within 100 days after October 31, 1988, the Administrator shall 
distribute to the States a list of each brand and model of drinking 
water cooler identified and listed by the Administrator under section 
300j-23(a) of this title.

(b) Guidance document and testing protocol

    The Administrator shall publish a guidance document and a testing 
protocol to assist schools in determining the source and degree of lead 
contamination in school drinking water supplies and in remedying such 
contamination. The guidance document shall include guidelines for sample 
preservation. The guidance document shall also include guidance to 
assist States, schools, and the general public in ascertaining the 
levels of lead contamination in drinking water coolers and in taking 
appropriate action to reduce or eliminate such contamination. The 
guidance document shall contain a testing protocol for the 
identification of drinking water coolers which contribute to lead 
contamination in drinking water. Such document and protocol may be 
revised, republished and redistributed as the Administrator deems 
necessary. The Administrator shall distribute the guidance document and 
testing protocol to the States within 100 days after October 31, 1988.

(c) Dissemination to schools, etc.

    Each State shall provide for the dissemination to local educational 
agencies, private nonprofit elementary or secondary schools and to day 
care centers of the guidance document and testing protocol published 
under subsection (b) of this section, together with the list of drinking 
water coolers published under section 300j-23(a) of this title.

(d) Remedial action program

            (1) Testing and remedying lead contamination

        Within 9 months after October 31, 1988, each State shall 
    establish a program, consistent with this section, to assist local 
    educational agencies in testing for, and remedying, lead 
    contamination in drinking water from coolers and from other sources 
    of lead contamination at schools under the jurisdiction of such 
    agencies.

                       (2) Public availability

        A copy of the results of any testing under paragraph (1) shall 
    be available in the administrative offices of the local educational 
    agency for inspection by the public, including teachers, other 
    school personnel, and parents. The local educational agency shall 
    notify parent, teacher, and employee organizations of the 
    availability of such testing results.

                             (3) Coolers

        In the case of drinking water coolers, such program shall 
    include measures for the reduction or elimination of lead 
    contamination from those water coolers which are not lead free and 
    which are located in schools. Such measures shall be adequate to 
    ensure that within 15 months after October 31, 1988, all such water 
    coolers in schools under the jurisdiction of such agencies are 
    repaired, replaced, permanently removed, or rendered inoperable 
    unless the cooler is tested and found (within the limits of testing 
    accuracy) not to contribute lead to drinking water.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIV, Sec. 1464, as added Pub. L. 100-572, 
Sec. 2(a), Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2886; amended Pub. L. 104-182, title 
V, Sec. 501(f)(10), Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1692.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-182 made technical amendment to section catchline 
and subsec. (a) designation.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300j-25 of this title.
