# 2025-00710: Draft National Recommended Ambient Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Human Health for Perfluorooctanoic Acid, Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid, and Perfluorobutane Sulfonic Acid; Correction

2025-00710, Draft National Recommended Ambient Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Human Health for Perfluorooctanoic Acid, Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid, and Perfluorobutane Sulfonic Acid; Correction, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-15, effective Comments must be received on or before February 24, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00710
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00710
- Title: Draft National Recommended Ambient Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Human Health for Perfluorooctanoic Acid, Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid, and Perfluorobutane Sulfonic Acid; Correction
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-15
- Effective: Comments must be received on or before February 24, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## Summary

The EPA fixed a tiny but important typo in their water safety numbers for three chemicals called PFOA, PFOS, and PFBS. This correction means the safe level for PFOA in water and organisms is now 10 times higher than first announced. People who care about clean water and health should check the updated numbers and send their thoughts by February 24, 2025.

## Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making a correction to a notice that appeared in the Federal Register on December 26, 2024. The notice of availability contained an incorrect value in Table 1, which is corrected below.

## Effects PRIA read

- EPA corrects PFAS draft safety numbers: benefit, low. You should note that the EPA corrected draft human-health water-quality numbers for three PFAS chemicals. The PFOA 'organism-only' human health criterion was corrected from 0.00036 ng/L to 0.0036 ng/L; the table lists PFOA water+organism 0.0009 ng/L, PFOS water+organism 0.06 ng/L and organism-only…

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## Sources
- [2025-00710 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00710/draft-national-recommended-ambient-water-quality-criteria-for-the-protection-of-human-health-for)
- [2025-00710 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00710.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00710 (as of 2026-06-08).