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Senate committee moves language to put PFAS settlement money into drinking water fund statute
Summary
The committee added statutory language to define how settlement funds from PFAS litigation will be used to reimburse communities that spent money on remediation; committee members said funds will then go to the drinking water and groundwater fund for final disbursement approval.
The Senate Finance Committee voted to include statutory language describing the purpose and operation of a fund to receive and disburse settlement proceeds from PFAS contamination litigation, aiming to reimburse communities that already spent money remediating drinking-water systems.
A senator explained the change as putting the fund’s purpose into statute so that when settlement money arrives "they can get…
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