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Senate committee approves bill requiring PFAS reporting to wastewater utilities
Summary
The Senate Agriculture committee voted 14-6 to report SB 1319, a PFAS data-collection measure directing industrial dischargers to self-report certain PFAS discharges to publicly owned treatment works and to notify the Department of Environmental Quality.
Senate Bill 1319, a measure to collect data on PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) discharges to wastewater systems, was reported out of the Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee on a 14-6 vote.
The bill, carried in the Senate by Senator Scott S. McPike, directs publicly owned treatment works to require self-reporting from industrial users when PFAS discharges are detected and to provide those reports to the Department of Environmental Quality. "This proposal will help our wastewater treatment plants address the same concerns without mandating a specific course of action," Senator McPike told the committee, describing the measure as a foundational…
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