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The Environmental Council of the States (“ECOS”) has released a report titled:
ECOS Compendium of State PFAS Actions (“Compendium”).
The Compendium is authored by:
- Sarah Grace Hughes, Senior Project Manager, ECOS.
- Julia Henderson, Project Associates, ECOS.
By way of introduction, the Compendium notes that while the United States Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies have taken actions on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), that the states:
…play a critical role in implementing and enforcing federal rules and regulations, and have enacted their own legislation, policies, and directives to address PFAS across a wide range of programs.
The Compendium states that it undertakes:
- An outline of various aspects of PFAS policies and science.
- National summary of PFAS actions.
- Individual findings from 52 jurisdictions (i.e., 50 states, District of Columbia, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).
Key sections of the Compendium include:
- State Approaches to PFAS.
- Regulations & Legislation.
- Sampling, Source Identification, Monitoring, & Testing.
- Remediation, Destruction, & Disposal.
- PFAS in Products & Firefighting Foams.
- Managing PFAS in Biosolids & Air.
- Permitting.
- Risk Communication.
- Funding.
- Next Steps.
- State Pages
- Appendices
- List of Acronyms.
- ECOS PFAS Resources.
- Tables of State PFAS Regulations & Advisories.
A copy of the Compendium can be downloaded here.
