                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REQUIREMENTS TO TEST FOR PFAS CHEMICALS; PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (§
62.1-44.15:5.3)

A. As used in this section, &#8220;PFAS chemical&#8221; means (i)
Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), (ii) Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), (iii)
hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA), (iv) perfluorobutane sulfonate
(PFBS), or (v) any substance in a class of fluorinated organic chemicals
containing at least two adjacent fluorinated carbon atoms, where one carbon atom
is fully fluorinated and the other atom is at least partially fluorinated,
excluding gases and volatile liquids, also referred to as perfluoroalkyl and
polyfluoroalkyl substances, identified by a publicly owned treatment works in
its pretreatment program for which there is an EPA approved testing method.

B. The pretreatment standards adopted by the Board shall require any industrial
user of a publicly owned treatment works that receives and cleans, repairs,
refurbishes, or processes any equipment, parts, or media used to treat any water
or wastewater from any off-site manufacturing process that the industrial user
knows or reasonably should know uses PFAS chemicals to test its wastestream for
PFAS chemicals prior to and after cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, or
processing such items. The results of such tests shall be transmitted to the
receiving publicly owned treatment works within three days of receipt of the
test results by the industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works.

HISTORY: 2023, c. 276.