§300j–19d Review of technologies

Summary

The Administrator must work with federal, state, and local governments to review—or hire others to review—existing and new methods, equipment, and technologies (including their cost, availability, and effectiveness) that: keep community water systems physically secure; prevent, detect, and respond to contaminants covered by national drinking water rules in those systems and their source water; allow use of alternate, nontraditional water supplies; and help assess and protect source water. The review must look at things like corrosion control, metering, leak detection, and ways to reduce water loss; smart systems with hardware or software; point-of-use or point-of-entry devices; real-time physical or electronic contaminant monitors; and technologies that let nontraditional sources be used, such as physical separation and chemical or biological treatment. The results must be made public. Up to $10,000,000 was provided for fiscal year 2019 to do this work, and the money remains available until spent.