Roadmap on action for PFAS

January 2023 proposed rule to prevent significant new use of estimated 300 PFAS sites that have been inactive

Dec 2022 permitting memo on industrial wastewater and permitting rules to reduce PFAS discharge into waterways

Dec 2022 proposed rule to ensure PFAS users disclose on the Toxics Release Inventory

Aug 2022 proposal to designate PFOA and PFOS as hazard substances under Superfund law – requiring cleanup

Dec 2021 rule expanding PFAS monitoring in drinking water

Many other additional actions

Tracking tools to find PFAS in your community

$1 billion in funding available through infrastructure law to states (out of $5 billion total) to address PFAS and other emerging contaminates

$50 billion to strengthen the nation’s drinking water and wastewater systems, “the single largest investment in clean water that the federal government has ever made.”

PFAS Task Force – bipartisan

PFAS Action Act of 2021

Calls for increased funding for PFAS programs from DoD, VA, EPA, FAA, etc.

Omnibus of 2022 had $2.76 billion for SRF funds for water, including 700 communities that bypassed the state revolving fund and were appropriate directly

3,493 current or former military sites contaminated with PFAS

FY 2023 NDAA requires DOD to identify critical uses of PFAS and report on efforts to buy items without PFOA and PFOS

FY 2023 NDAA provides $1.2 billion for cleaning up contaminated military sites and $11 million for PFAS-related research.