| #Q001 | administrative | operational | guidance | Administrator Addition of Alternative Quality Control Procedures | drinking water | At any time after promulgation of a regulation referred to in this paragraph, the Administrator may add equally effective quality control and testing procedures by guidance published in the Federal Register. | After promulgation of a primary drinking water regulation | high |
| #Q002 | administrative | operational | mandatory | Treatment of Alternative Quality Control Procedures | drinking water | Such procedures shall be treated as an alternative for public water systems to the quality control and testing procedures listed in the regulation. | When the Administrator adds equally effective quality control and testing procedures by guidance published in the Federal Register | high |
| #Q003 | reporting | reporting | mandatory | Separate Identification of Safe Drinking Water Act Funding | drinking water | The Administrator shall identify in the agency's annual budget all funding and full-time equivalents administering such title XIV separately from funding and staffing for the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. | In the agency's annual budget | high |
| #Q004 | reporting | reporting | mandatory | GAO Study on Nonpublic Water Systems | drinking water | required the Comptroller General to study the reliance for residential water on various nonpublic water systems and to submit a report on the results of the study to Congress within 3 years after Aug. 6, 1996. | Within 3 years after Aug. 6, 1996 | high |
| #Q005 | reporting | reporting | mandatory | Rural Drinking Water Survey and Report | drinking water | directed Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency, after consultation with Secretary of Agriculture and the several States, to enter into arrangements with public or private entities to conduct a survey of quantity, quality, and availability of rural drinking water supplies, which survey was to include, but not be limited to, consideration of number of residents in each rural area who presently are being inadequately served by a public or private drinking water supply system, or by an individual home drinking water supply system, or who presently have limited or otherwise inadequate access to drinking water, or who, due to absence or inadequacy of a drinking water supply system, are exposed to an increased health hazard, and who have experienced incidents of chronic or acute illness, which may be attributed to inadequacy of a drinking water supply system. Survey to be completed within eighteen months of Dec. 16, 1974, and a final report thereon submitted, not later than six months after completion of survey, to President and to Congress. | Survey to be completed within 18 months of Dec. 16, 1974, and report submitted not later than 6 months after completion | high |
| #Q006 | administrative | unknown | mandatory | Termination of Advisory Committees | drinking water | provided that an advisory committee established pursuant to the Public Health Service Act shall terminate at such time as may be specifically prescribed by an Act of Congress enacted after Jan. 4, 1975. | At such time as may be specifically prescribed by an Act of Congress enacted after Jan. 4, 1975 | medium |
| #Q007 | prohibition | unknown | mandatory | Prohibition on Construing Act to Affect Federal Water Pollution Control Act | drinking water | Except for the provisions of section 302 [42 U.S.C. 300j–12 note] (relating to transfers of funds), nothing in this Act [see Effective Date of 1996 Amendment note above] or in any amendments made by this Act to title XIV of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.] (commonly known as the 'Safe Drinking Water Act') or any other law shall be construed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency or the courts as affecting, modifying, expanding, changing, or altering- (1) the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act [33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.]; (2) the duties and responsibilities of the Administrator under that Act; or (3) the regulation or control of point or nonpoint sources of pollution discharged into waters covered by that Act. | Except for the provisions of section 302 (relating to transfers of funds) | high |
| #Q008 | prohibition | unknown | mandatory | Restriction on Construction of Authorization for Research Appropriations | drinking water | Nothing in this Act [see Short Title of 1977 Amendment note set out under section 201 of this title] shall be construed to authorize the appropriation of any amount for research under title XIV of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.] (relating to safe drinking water). | | high |
| #Q009 | prohibition | unknown | mandatory | Protection of Administrator Authority Regarding Contaminants | drinking water | Nothing in this Act [see Short Title of 1977 Amendment note set out under section 201 of this title] shall be construed to alter or affect the Administrator's authority or duty under title 14 of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.] to promulgate regulations or take other action with respect to any contaminant. | | high |