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Senate committee advances bill requiring PFAS reporting from wastewater plants
Summary
Senator Andrew McPike introduced a substitute to SB1319 directing publicly owned wastewater treatment works to collect PFAS pretreatment data and provide it to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, a move supporters called necessary to fill gaps in state monitoring.
Senator Andrew McPike, patron of Senate Bill 1319, told the Senate Agriculture and Conservation and Natural Resources Committee he introduced the substitute to expand last year’s PFAS work beyond drinking-water systems to include publicly owned wastewater treatment works.
"This substitute before you really focuses and takes the same areas that we did last year and applies also to our waste water treatment plants," Senator McPike said, describing the measure as a way to collect pre‑treatment data and…
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