EPA Hears Late Call To Make Imminent PFAS Reporting Rule More Flexible

EPA is hearing 11th-hour calls from federal small-business advocates to make its imminent PFAS reporting rule more flexible and ease the burden on small entities, charging EPA’s economic analysis of the rule may still underestimate implementation costs. In a comment letter filed ahead of EPA’s Dec. 27 deadline for public input on its Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) rule, the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy writes that the reworked cost analysis shows disproportionate burdens on small entities that the...