PFAS Reference Standards Act
Bill: H.R.7897 | Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. (D-MD)
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
PFAS Reference Standards Act
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to require manufacturers of perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS, to submit an analytical reference standard for each PFAS it has manufactured since ten years prior to the enactment of this bill.

To require manufacturers of PFAS to submit analytical reference 
    standards to the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``PFAS Reference Standards Act''.

SEC. 2. EPA REQUIREMENT FOR SUBMISSION OF ANALYTICAL REFERENCE 
              STANDARDS FOR PFAS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall require each covered entity to submit to the 
Administrator an analytical reference standard for each chemical 
substance with at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom manufactured 
by the covered entity after the date that is 10 years prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act.
    (b) Uses.--The Administrator may--
            (1) use an analytical reference standard submitted under 
        this section only for--
                    (A) the development of information, protocols, and 
                methodologies, which may be carried out by an entity 
                determined appropriate by the Administrator; or
                    (B) activities relating to the implementation or 
                enforcement of Federal requirements; and
            (2) provide an analytical reference standard submitted 
        under this section to a State, to be used only for--
                    (A) the development of information, protocols, and 
                methodologies, which may be carried out by an entity 
                determined appropriate by the State; or
                    (B) activities relating to the implementation or 
                enforcement of State requirements.
    (c) Prohibition.--No person receiving an analytical reference 
standard submitted under this section may use or transfer the 
analytical reference standard for a commercial purpose.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
            (2) Chemical substance.--The term ``chemical substance'' 
        means any organic or inorganic substance of a particular 
        molecular identity.
            (3) Covered entity.--The term ``covered entity'' means a 
        manufacturer of a chemical substance with at least one fully 
        fluorinated carbon atom.
            (4) Manufacture; state.--The terms ``manufacture'' and 
        ``State'' have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of 
        the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2602).
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