§8961 Pfas Destruction and Disposal Guidance

Summary

Within 1 year after December 20, 2019, the Administrator (head of the Environmental Protection Agency) must publish interim guidance on how to destroy and dispose of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and materials that contain PFAS. The guidance must cover six kinds of wastes, including aqueous film‑forming foam (AFFF); soil and biosolids; textiles treated with PFAS (not consumer goods); spent filters, membranes, resins, granular carbon and other water‑treatment wastes; landfill leachate with PFAS; and solid, liquid, or gas waste streams from places that make or use PFAS. The guidance must consider the chance PFAS could be released during destruction or disposal — for example by vaporizing, spreading through the air, or leaching — and consider people who may be vulnerable near likely sites. It must give instructions for testing and monitoring air, wastewater/effluent, and soil near those sites. The Administrator must update the guidance as needed, but at least once every 3 years.