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Drinking water; Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program established. Creates the Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program to reduce excessive levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in public drinking water derived from the Occoquan Reservoir. The bill requires certain facilities to monitor for PFAS on or before October 1, 2025, using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Method 1633 or an alternative method approved by the EPA. The bill requires any such facility to report all results to the Department of Environmental Quality no later than the tenth day of the next month after the month in which the result is reported by the laboratory and to include in such report all PFAS analytes measured by the test method. The bill requires by July 1, 2027, for any facility that measures exceedances in its discharge of the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for PFAS in drinking water promulgated on or before January 1, 2025, the Department, for an individual Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit if the facility discharges directly to surface waters, or a major publicly owned treatment works, for an indirect discharger, to modify the applicable discharge permit to require that the facility's discharge not exceed that MCL. The bill requires the modified permit to provide a compliance schedule that requires compliance with such level as soon as possible but no later than July 1, 2029. The bill exempts from its provisions any industrial discharger not listed in the bill, any publicly owned treatment works or drinking water treatment plant, or a municipal solid waste facility but provides that any public water system may follow the requirements of the bill for the purpose of planning for compliance with the MCL for PFAS in finished water. The bill clarifies that its provisions will not limit the authority of the Department or the owner or operator of any publicly owned treatment works to which any user discharges wastewater to require monitoring or reporting or otherwise regulate the discharge of any PFAS chemicals or other pollutants under other applicable legal authority.
Introduced
Jan 7, 2025
Last Action
Apr 2, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 8 co
House concurred in Governor's recommendation (96-Y 0-N)
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650)
Enacted, Chapter 650 (Effective 07/01/25)
Signed by President as reenrolled
Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
Reenrolled bill text (HB2050ER2)
Reenrolled
Governor's recommendation adopted
Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
Governor's recommendation received by House
Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
Signed by President
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2050ER)
Signed by Speaker
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2050)
Enrolled
Senate substitute agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
Read third time
Reading of substitute waived
Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to
Reading of amendment waived
Senator McPike, Jeremy S. Amendments agreed to
Engrossed By Senate - Committee Substitute as amended
Passed Senate with substitute with amendments (38-Y 0-N)
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
Passed by for the day
Rules suspended
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2050)
Committee substitute printed 25107197D-S1
Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N)
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
Engrossed by House - committee substitute
Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to
Read second time
Read first time
Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
Committee substitute printed 25106088D-H1
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2050)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (10-Y 0-N)
Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25102842D
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Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0650)
David L. Bulova
Rozia A. Henson, Jr.
Candi Mundon King
Joshua E. Thomas
Dan I. Helmer
Michelle Lopes Maldonado
Briana D. Sewell
Mark D. Sickles