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Advocacy Alert
NACWA Releases Considerations Document to Help Clean Water Utilities Navigate Recent and Potential New PFAS Regulations
Apr 16, 2024
NACWA is pleased to release to members a new resource, Navigating the Current PFAS Landscape: Thoughts for the Clean Water Sector to Consider. This resource is intended to help clean water agencies navigate the current landscape of federal, and where relevant, state efforts on PFAS and outlines a variety of regulatory and legislative activity and how those actions may impact public clean water utilities.
This effort is a product of NACWA’s PFAS Task Force that recommended NACWA update its previous 2019 Clean Water Utility’s Guide to Considering Source Identification, Pretreatment, and Sampling Protocols and now includes specific regulatory areas where clean water agencies can consider utilizing certain “on ramps” and “off ramps” to local state and federal PFAS initiatives, including treatment operations, biosolids management approaches, and long-term planning.
While nothing in this document is intended to provide utilities with legal advice or recommendations on “best practices,” NACWA hopes this is a valuable resource for members to stay apprised of new PFAS information and how to best navigate this ever changing regulatory landscape.
If members have comments or suggestions on this document, please contact Emily Remmel, NACWA’s Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs.