Connecticut 2025 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB01494 Compare Versions

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	3	+	LCO No. 5192 1 of 2
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5		-	General Assembly ~~Substitute~~ Bill No. 1494
	5	+	General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1494
6	6		January Session, 2025
	7	+	LCO No. 5192
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	10	+	Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
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	13	+	Introduced by:
	14	+	(ENV)
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12		-	AN ACT CONCERNING REMEDIATION AND TESTING FOR PFAS IN
13		-	CERTAIN WATER SUPPLIES.
	19	+	AN ACT CONCERNING TESTING FOR PFAS IN CERTAIN WATER
	20	+	SUPPLIES.
14	21		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
15	22		Assembly convened:
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17		-	Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) The Connecticut Interagency 1
18		-	PFAS Task Force shall: (1) Not later than July 15, 2025, identify sources 2
19		-	of funding for the remediation of municipally owned wells that are 3
20		-	determined by the Department of Public Health or the Department of 4
21		-	Energy and Environmental Protection to exceed drinking water 5
22		-	standards for PFAS, as established by the United States Environmental 6
23		-	Protection Agency as of the effective date of this section; and (2) 7
24		-	accelerate the phased approach for the testing of public drinking water 8
25		-	supplies, as described in such task force's PFAS Action Plan, dated 9
26		-	November 1, 2019, whether such supplies are owned by municipalities, 10
27		-	private entities or water companies. 11
	24	+	Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) Notwithstanding any 1
	25	+	provision of the general statutes, each water company, as defined in 2
	26	+	section 16-1 of the general statutes, shall conduct testing each month to 3
	27	+	determine whether the level of PFAS, as defined in section 22a-255h of 4
	28	+	the general statutes, for such water company's public water supply 5
	29	+	system exceeds twenty parts per trillion. If the average PFAS level for 6
	30	+	any such water supply system, over a three-month period, exceeds 7
	31	+	twenty parts per trillion, such water company shall undertake one or 8
	32	+	more of the following measures for the purpose of achieving a level of 9
	33	+	PFAS of twenty parts per trillion or less for such public water supply 10
	34	+	system: (1) Link such system to a different public water supply system 11
	35	+	that has a PFAS level below twenty parts per trillion; (2) install a PFAS 12
	36	+	filtering system; or (3) blend well waters that have higher and lower 13
	37	+	levels of PFAS. 14
	38	+	(b) The Commissioner of Public Health, in consultation with the 15
	39	+	Raised Bill No. 1494
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	43	+	LCO No. 5192 2 of 2
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	45	+	Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, may adopt 16
	46	+	regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 of the 17
	47	+	general statutes, to implement the requirements of this section. Such 18
	48	+	regulations may include, but shall not be limited to, additional measures 19
	49	+	that a water company may undertake to achieve a PFAS level of twenty 20
	50	+	parts per trillion or less. 21
28	51		This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
29	52		sections:
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31	54		Section 1 from passage New section
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33		-	ENV Joint Favorable Subst.
	56	+	Statement of Purpose:
	57	+	To require water companies to test for PFAS levels and take remedial
	58	+	action when such test reflects certain levels of PFAS in such water
	59	+	supply.
	60	+
	61	+	[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
	62	+	that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
	63	+	underlined.]
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