Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced
Summary
Creates a federal framework to regulate PFAS in waterways. This bill would force EPA to set water-quality criteria, require monitoring and staged effluent limits for priority dischargers, and fund pretreatment capacity for public treatment plants.
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- Communities and households: EPA must publish human health water quality criteria for each measurable PFAS within three years, improving the science used to track and limit PFAS in drinking and surface waters.
- Publicly owned treatment works and utilities: The bill authorizes $200 million per year for 2026–2030 for pretreatment grants to help utilities monitor and reduce PFAS and starts mandatory monitoring for prioritized discharge categories immediately.
- Regulated industries and EPA actions: EPA would face near-term deadlines in 2026–2028 to finalize effluent limitation guidelines for priority sectors and must adopt a new lab method (Method 1633A) by January 2026 to measure PFAS.
*This bill would authorize up to $200 million per year for pretreatment grants and $12 million per year for EPA activities for 2026–2030, increasing federal spending by up to about $212 million per year over that period.*
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PFAS grants for wastewater plants
If enacted, $200 million would be authorized each year from FY2026 through FY2030 for grants to publicly owned wastewater plants to run pretreatment programs and to monitor or analyze local PFAS sources. Grants would be awarded only if Congress provides the money and the funds would remain available until spent. The grants are meant to help plants control PFAS entering treatment works.
New EPA PFAS rules and testing
If enacted, the EPA would set national human-health water quality criteria for every measurable PFAS within three years. The EPA would require monitoring of measurable PFAS discharges starting on enactment and set effluent limits for listed industries by fixed deadlines (Sept 30, 2026; Sept 30, 2027; Sept 30, 2028). The EPA would decide by Dec 31, 2026 whether to start rules for pulp and paper, airports, and electronics and publish those rules by Dec 31, 2028 if started. The EPA would also adopt a standard PFAS lab method (Method 1633A) by Jan 31, 2026 and get $12 million per year for FY2026–FY2030 to support implementation.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
NY • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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