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EPA rescinds four-PFAS drinking-water rule on procedural grounds; PFOA and PFOS MCLs to remain for now
Summary
Administrator Zeldin told the committee the agency rescinded drinking-water rules for four PFAS chemicals because of procedural errors and will undertake a new rulemaking; he said the 4 parts-per-trillion maximum contaminant level for PFOA and PFOS will be retained while the agency reconsiders other standards and compliance timelines.
Administrator Lee Zeldin told the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that EPA had rescinded a finalized drinking-water regulation covering four PFAS chemicals because of a procedural error and that the agency will reopen rulemaking for those substances.
“You inherited some litigation as well, including litigation on that rule that was, finalized before I got there. There was a procedural error in the way in which they moved through the process on those four. I inherited that procedural error, and I'm going to fix it,” Zeldin told…
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