119-hr4556

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4556 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4556

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency to seek to enter into an agreement 
 with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to 
 carry out a rapid response evidence review of proposed rules relating 
 to fluoride, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 July 21, 2025

 Mr. Cleaver (for himself, Mr. Frost, Mr. Fields, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. 
Bell, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mrs. Sykes, and Ms. 
 Norton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce

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 A BILL

 To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency to seek to enter into an agreement 
 with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to 
 carry out a rapid response evidence review of proposed rules relating 
 to fluoride, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Protect Our Treatment for Enamel, 
Erosion, and Tooth Health Act'' or the ``Protect Our TEETH Act''.

SEC. 2. FLUORIDE IN DRINKING WATER.

 

Section 1412

    (b)

    (12) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-
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    (b)

    (12) ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (C) Fluoride.--
 ``
            (i) National academies rapid response 
 evidence review.--Prior to publishing in the 
 Federal Register a proposed rule to establish 
 the maximum contaminant level goal for 
 fluoride, or, in the national primary drinking 
 water regulation for fluoride, specify the 
 maximum contaminant level for fluoride, the 
 Administrator shall--
 ``
            (I) seek to enter into an 
 agreement with the National Academies 
 of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 
 to carry out a rapid response evidence 
 review of such proposed rule, which 
 agreement shall specify a timeline of 
 no fewer than 90 days and no more than 
 180 days for carrying out such rapid 
 response evidence review;
 ``
            (II) provide the National 
 Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
 Medicine with all data and other 
 information being used to justify such 
 proposed rule; and
 ``
            (III) consider the results of any 
 such rapid response evidence review 
 with respect to such proposed rule.
 ``
            (ii) Publication.--The Administrator 
 shall publish in the Federal Register, as a 
 part of any proposed rule under this 
 subparagraph, the entirety of the final report 
 of any rapid response evidence review relating 
 to such proposed rule.
 ``
            (iii) Use of existing funds.--The 
 Administrator may use funds otherwise available 
 to the Administrator to carry out this 
 subparagraph.''.
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