1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safe Drinking Water Assistance Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) safe and clean drinking water is essential to the health, well-being, comfort, and standard of living of every person of the United States; (2) emerging contaminants in drinking water systems are increasingly being detected at low levels; (3) prolonged exposure to unregulated drinking water contaminants, including emerging contaminants, may pose human health risks, particularly to vulnerable populations; (4) the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.), requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency— (A) to periodically make regulatory determinations with respect to unregulated contaminants; and (B) not less frequently than once every 5 years, to identify and publish a description of unregulated contaminants that may require regulation; (5) in a 2011 report of the Government Accountability Office, the Comptroller General of the United States found, with respect to unregulated drinking water contaminants, that— (A) the Administrator has made limited progress in prioritizing drinking water contaminants based on greatest public health concern; (B) the lack of data relating to the exposure of the public to potentially harmful drinking water contaminants and the related health effects of that exposure continues to limit the ability of the Administrator to make regulatory determinations; and (C) in many cases, gathering sufficient data to address contaminants awaiting regulatory determinations by the Administrator has taken the Administrator more than 10 years, and obtaining data on other contaminants that are currently awaiting regulatory determinations may take decades