Waste management director Matt Chapman urges keeping PCB testing program, tying it to school master planning
Matt Chapman, director of the Waste Management Prevention Division, presented a complete‑strike replacement for H.542 that would keep a PCB testing program for schools but shift testing into the state facilities master‑planning process, while committee members raised concerns about funding, voluntariness of the master plan, and the House bill’s effect of pausing the program until money is appropriated.
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Matt Chapman, director of the Waste Management Prevention Division, told the Senate Education Committee that his complete‑strike draft of H.542 would preserve a state PCB testing program for schools but reframe when and how testing is done by embedding it in school facilities master planning.
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