EPA Pushes Back PFAS Chemical Reporting Start Date
Published Date: 4/13/2026
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Summary
The EPA is changing when companies must start reporting about PFAS chemicals. If you’ve made or imported PFAS since 2011, you’ll now have to submit your info starting January 31, 2027, or sooner if a related rule comes out earlier. This gives businesses a clearer timeline to prepare without extra costs or surprises.
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PFAS reporting start date moved
If your company manufactured or imported PFAS for a commercial purpose at any time since January 1, 2011, the date you must start submitting required PFAS reports is now January 31, 2027, or 60 days after the effective date of a forthcoming EPA final rule on the substantive requirements, whichever is earlier. This final rule is effective April 13, 2026 and sets that new start-date framework so reporting will not begin on the previously codified April 13, 2026 date.
Submission period lengths kept and extended
When the PFAS report submission period begins, the rule keeps the main reporting window at six months. Small manufacturers (as defined at 40 CFR 704.3) whose reporting obligations are exclusively for imported articles will have a twelve-month submission period beginning January 31, 2027, or 60 days after the date provided in paragraph (c) of 40 CFR 705.20, whichever is earlier.
Delay relieves immediate compliance burden
EPA states this action delays the reporting start date and thus relieves regulated entities—including small businesses—of an existing compliance deadline. The agency certified under the Regulatory Flexibility Act that this delay will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities and describes the action as deregulatory.
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