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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1494
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 5192
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT CONCERNING TESTING FOR PFAS IN CERTAIN WATER
SUPPLIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) Notwithstanding any 1
provision of the general statutes, each water company, as defined in 2
section 16-1 of the general statutes, shall conduct testing each month to 3
determine whether the level of PFAS, as defined in section 22a-255h of 4
the general statutes, for such water company's public water supply 5
system exceeds twenty parts per trillion. If the average PFAS level for 6
any such water supply system, over a three-month period, exceeds 7
twenty parts per trillion, such water company shall undertake one or 8
more of the following measures for the purpose of achieving a level of 9
PFAS of twenty parts per trillion or less for such public water supply 10
system: (1) Link such system to a different public water supply system 11
that has a PFAS level below twenty parts per trillion; (2) install a PFAS 12
filtering system; or (3) blend well waters that have higher and lower 13
levels of PFAS. 14
(b) The Commissioner of Public Health, in consultation with the 15
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Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, may adopt 16
regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 of the 17
general statutes, to implement the requirements of this section. Such 18
regulations may include, but shall not be limited to, additional measures 19
that a water company may undertake to achieve a PFAS level of twenty 20
parts per trillion or less. 21
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require water companies to test for PFAS levels and take remedial
action when such test reflects certain levels of PFAS in such water
supply.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]