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HB 2189 PFAS chemicals; requirements to test, publicly owned treatment works.

Introduced by: Sam Rasoul | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Requirements to test for PFAS; publicly owned treatment works; discharges into state waters. Directs the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations that require any industrial user of publicly owned treatment works that receive and clean, repair, refurbish, or process items that the industrial user knows or reasonably should know use PFAS chemicals, defined in the bill, to test wastestreams for PFAS prior to and after cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, or processing such items. The bill requires the results of such tests to be transmitted to the receiving publicly owned treatment works within three days of receipt of the test results by the industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Requirements to test for PFAS; publicly owned treatment works; discharges into state waters. Requires industrial users of publicly owned treatment works that receive and clean, repair, refurbish, or process items that contain PFAS, as defined in the bill, to test wastestreams for PFAS prior to and after cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, or processing such items. The bill also requires prompt testing for PFAS following the discharge of certain toxic agents or materials listed in the federal Clean Water Act into state waters and requires the results of such tests to be submitted to the coordinator of emergency services for the affected political subdivision.