Title: Ensuring PFAS Cleanup Meets or Exceeds Stringent Standards Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Ensuring PFAS Cleanup Meets or Exceeds Stringent Standards Act
This bill requires the Department of Defense's (DOD's) response actions to address perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substance contamination from DOD or National Guard activities to meet certain standards. PFAS are man-made and may have adverse human health effects.
DOD must conduct such response actions to achieve a level of PFAS in the environmental media that meets or exceeds the most stringent of the following standards for each applicable PFAS:

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4976 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4976

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 2021

Ms. Slotkin (for herself and Mr. Khanna) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition 
to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Energy and 
Commerce, 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 PFAS 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring PFAS Cleanup Meets or 
Exceeds Stringent Standards Act''.

SEC. 2. STANDARDS FOR RESPONSE ACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO PFAS 
              CONTAMINATION.

    (a) In General.--In conducting a response action to address 
perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance contamination from 
Department of Defense or National Guard activities, the Secretary of 
Defense shall conduct such actions to achieve a level of such 
substances in the environmental media that meets or exceeds the most 
stringent of the following standards for each applicable perfluoroalkyl 
or polyfluoroalkyl substance in any environmental media:
            (1) A State standard, in effect in the State in which the 
        response action is being conducted, 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) A Federal standard, 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) Perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance.--The term 
        ``perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance'' means any man-
        made chemical with at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.
            (2) Response action.--The term ``response action'' means an 
        action taken pursuant to section 104 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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