Title: To direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure that removal and remedial actions relating to PFOS or PFOA contamination result in levels meeting or exceeding certain standards, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to attain specific standards in cleaning up perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contamination in drinking water and other groundwater from past DOD and National Guard activities. Specifically, DOD must reduce the presence of PFOS and PFOA in drinking water and other groundwater to meet or exceed the most stringent standard among federal health advisories and enforceable federal and state requirements.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8231 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8231

To direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure that removal and remedial 
actions relating to PFOS or PFOA contamination result in levels meeting 
        or exceeding certain standards, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 11, 2020

 Ms. Slotkin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on 
   Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure that removal and remedial 
actions relating to PFOS or PFOA contamination result in levels meeting 
        or exceeding certain standards, 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. STANDARDS FOR REMOVAL OR REMEDIAL ACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
              PFOS OR PFOA CONTAMINATION.

    (a) In General.--In conducting removal or remedial actions pursuant 
to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) or section 332 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 
116-92) of PFOS or PFOA contamination from Department of Defense or 
National Guard activities found in drinking water or in groundwater 
that is not currently used for drinking water, the Secretary of Defense 
shall ensure that such actions result in a level that meets or exceeds 
the most stringent of the following standards for PFOS or PFOA in any 
environmental media:
            (1) An enforceable State standard, in effect in that State, 
        for drinking, surface, or ground water, as described in section 
        121(d)(2)(A)(ii) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
        Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 
        9621(d)(2)(A)(ii)).
            (2) An enforceable Federal standard for drinking, surface, 
        or ground water, as described in section 121(d)(2)(A)(i) of the 
        Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
        Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9621(d)(2)(A)(i)).
            (3) A health advisory under section 1412(b)(1)(F) of the 
        Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-1(b)(1)(F)).
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``PFOA'' means perfluorooctanoic acid.
            (2) The term ``PFOS'' means perfluorooctane sulfonate.
            (3) The terms ``removal'' and ``remedial action'' have the 
        meanings given those terms in section 101 of the Comprehensive 
        Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
        (42 U.S.C. 9601).
    (c) Savings Clause.--Except with respect to the specific level 
required to be met under subsection (a), nothing in this section 
affects the application of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9607).
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