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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7289 
To provide for the National Academies to study and report on a Federal 
research agenda to advance the understanding of PFAS, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 30, 2022 
Mrs. FLETCHER (for herself and Mr. MEIJER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
A BILL 
To provide for the National Academies to study and report 
on a Federal research agenda to advance the under-
standing of PFAS, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal PFAS Re-
search Evaluation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl sub-
stances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals 
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that have been used in a wide range of products 
since the 1940s including firefighting foam, car-
peting, packaging, and cookware. There are more 
than 5,000 types of registered PFAS compounds. 
This chemical class is not currently regulated at the 
Federal level. 
(2) PFAS have been detected in air, water, soil, 
food, biosolids, and more. They accumulate and re-
main in the body for a long time, and can lead to 
serious health effects including cancer, low infant 
birthweight, liver and kidney issues, reproductive 
and developmental problems, and more. 
(3) There remains much unknown about PFAS 
toxicity, human and environmental health effects, ex-
posure pathways, as well as effective removal, treat-
ment, and destruction methods, and safe alternatives 
to PFAS. 
(4) There is currently no cohesive, interagency 
effort to address PFAS, and no Federal agency is 
focused on a multidisciplinary, cross-sector ap-
proach. Rather, there are fragmented efforts at var-
ious agencies that have failed to address the full 
scope of challenges presented by PFAS. 
(5) Regulatory action and cleanup depend on 
scientific analysis of toxicity data, decision making 
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on how best to deal with the thousands of PFAS, 
and understanding the significance of the many ex-
posure pathways that exist. A consensus study by 
the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, 
and Medicine would help inform decisions by Federal 
and State Governments, industry, and other stake-
holders on how to best address PFAS. 
SEC. 3. NATIONAL ACADEMIES REPORTS. 
(a) RESEARCH ASSESSMENTS OF PFAS EXPOSURE 
AND TOXICITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, in con-
sultation with the Director of the National Science 
Foundation, the Secretary of Defense, the Director 
of the National Institutes of Health, and other Fed-
eral agencies with expertise relevant to under-
standing PFAS exposure and toxicity, shall enter 
into an agreement with the National Academies to 
conduct a two-phase study and submit reports in ac-
cordance with this subsection to identify research 
and development needed to advance human exposure 
estimation and toxicity and hazard estimation of in-
dividual or total PFAS. 
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