---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300j–19d"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300j–19d"
heading: "Review of technologies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300j-19d"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XII — Safety of Public Water Systems"
  - "Part E — General Provisions"
---

# §300j–19d. Review of technologies

- (a) **Review—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1), after consultation with appropriate departments and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the Federal Government and with [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) and local governments, shall review (or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements to provide for a review of) existing and potential methods, means, equipment, and technologies (including review of cost, availability, and efficacy of such methods, means, equipment, and technologies) that—
  - (1) ensure the physical integrity of community water systems;
  - (2) prevent, detect, and respond to any contaminant for which a national primary drinking water regulation has been promulgated in community water systems and source water for community water systems;
  - (3) allow for use of alternate drinking water supplies from nontraditional sources; and
  - (4) facilitate source water assessment and protection.
- (b) **Inclusions—** The review under [subsection (a)](#a) shall include review of methods, means, equipment, and technologies—
  - (1) that are used for corrosion protection, metering, leak detection, or protection against water loss;
  - (2) that are intelligent systems, including hardware, software, or other technology, used to assist in protection and detection described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1);
  - (3) that are point-of-use devices or point-of-entry devices;
  - (4) that are physical or electronic systems that monitor, or assist in monitoring, contaminants in drinking water in real-time; and
  - (5) that allow for the use of nontraditional sources for drinking water, including physical separation and chemical and biological transformation technologies.
- (c) **Availability—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) shall make the results of the review under [subsection (a)](#a) available to the public.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) to carry out this section $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2019, which shall remain available until expended.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIV, § 1459D, as added Pub. L. 115–270, title II, § 2017, Oct. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 3856.)