H502 Summary: PFAS Contamination Mitigation Measures

• Requires full disclosure of pollutants at or above practical quantitation limits in NPDES permit applications and renewals, including chemical abstracts service numbers or detailed descriptions.

• Mandates NPDES permittees eliminate PFAS from industrial user waste prior to discharge into state waters, or require industrial users to eliminate PFAS themselves if elimination is economically impracticable.

• Directs Department of Environmental Quality by June 1, 2022, to identify technology-based limits for detectable PFAS in NPDES permits requiring treatment to reduce PFAS to non-detect levels (below 10 ppt).

• Appropriates $92 million for PFAS mitigation including $5 million for Bernard Allen Drinking Water Fund, $5 million for water quality monitoring, $80 million for water infrastructure authority grants, and $1 million each for PFAS destruction research and chemical action planning.

• Requires studies by September 1, 2022, on PFAS in land-applied biosolids and landfill leachate, with authority for Environmental Management Commission to adopt rules preventing PFAS migration or prohibiting contaminated leachate disposal.