FILED SENATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA MarSESSION 25, 2025 S.B.S 1 SENATE BILL 666 Short Title:
666 SESSION 2025 PRINCIPAL CLERK S D SENATE BILL DRS35246-MHa-88 Short Title:2025 Water Safety Act.
Rules and Operations of the Senate March 26, 2025 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR PFAS MITIGATION AND RESEARCH, TO DIRECT THE COMMISSION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH TO ADOPT STANDARDS FOR PFAS IN DRINKING WATER, AND TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT TO ADOPT PFAS DISCHARGE LIMITS FOR SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USERS AND PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS DISCHARGING DIRECTLY TO SURFACE WATERS.
The purpose of the Fund is to support statewide efforts to detect, reduce, mitigate, and prevent exposuretoPFASandtoexposuretoPFASandtosupportscientificresearchandtechnologydevelopmentrelatedtoPFAS supportscientificresearchandtechnologydevelopmentrelatedtoPFAS removal, treatment, monitoring, and precursor identification.
*DRS35246-MHa-88**S666-v-1* General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 (b) Uses of Fund.
– SWIA shall report annuallyannuallyas as a part of the report required bybyG.S. G.S.
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(b) The Commission shall adopt rules to establish a compliance schedule with respect to the maximum contaminants levels set forth in subsection (a) of this section for all public water systems, including community water systems and transient and non-transient non-community water systems that is substantiallysubstantiallyidentical identical to the compliance schedule set forth in 40 C.F.R.
(3) A compliance schedule of up to 36 months to begin no later than January 1, 2026, for regulated entities to achieve the requirements developed pursuant to subdivisions (1)and (2)of this Section.DuringSection.Duringthis this time, theDepartment shall coordinate with the North Carolina Collaboratory to do all of the following:
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