PFAS monitoring; DEQ to require for industrial wastewater source, publicly owned treatment works.

Department of Environmental Quality; industrial wastewater; publicly owned treatment works; PFAS monitoring. Directs every publicly owned treatment works (POTW) to require certain new or industrial users of such POTW to perform and report to such POTW no later than 30 days after receipt from a laboratory the results as received of quarterly discharge monitoring for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for an initial characterization period of one year, provided, however, that suc…

Source: OpenStates · fetched April 13, 2026

• Low-income / working-classindirectMinor impactMedium certainty

  Potential for increased costs passed down from POTWs due to new monitoring and reporting requirements.

  “Directs every publicly owned treatment works (POTW) to require certain new or industrial users of such POTW to perform and report to such POTW no later than 30 days after receipt from a laboratory the results as received of quarterly discharge monitoring for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for an initial characterization period of one year”· Department of Environmental Quality; industrial wastewater; publicly owned treatment works; PFAS monitoring.

• W-2 worker (non-union)indirectMinor impactMedium certainty

  Potential for increased costs passed down from POTWs to residents, impacting household budgets.

  “Directs every publicly owned treatment works (POTW) to require certain new or industrial users of such POTW to perform and report to such POTW no later than 30 days after receipt from a laboratory the results as received of quarterly discharge monitoring for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for an initial characterization period of one year”· Department of Environmental Quality; industrial wastewater; publicly owned treatment works; PFAS monitoring.