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Safe Drinking Water Act: Implementation and Issues

Description: This report discusses key drinking water issues in the 108th Congress involving water infrastructure funding and problems caused by specific contaminants, such as the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), perchlorate, and lead in drinking water. Congress last reauthorized the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in 1996, and although funding authority for most SDWA programs expired in FY2003, broad reauthorization efforts were not pursued as EPA, states, and water utilities continued … more
Date: December 8, 2004
Creator: Tiemann, Mary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison of the House and Senate ETI/Business Investment Bills (H.R. 4520 and S. 1637, 108th Congress)

Description: In fall 2004, Congress considered legislation that addresses both domestic and international business investment and the long-simmering controversy between the United States and the European Union over the U.S. tax code's extraterritorial income tax benefit for exporting. This report contains information on agreements between the U.S. and the European Union, impact on tax revenues, extraterritorial income benefit for exports, tax benefits restricted to domestic production, and more.
Date: November 8, 2004
Creator: Brumbaugh, David L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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