EPA Reopens Public Comment Period On POTW Influent PFAS Data Collection

EPA is reopening the public comment period on its plan to collect information from hundreds of publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) to inform the agency’s development of technology-based PFAS controls on industrial discharges, following calls from wastewater utilities, environmentalists and some states for EPA to leverage existing data. In a Federal Register notice scheduled to be published Oct. 10, EPA says it is providing an additional 30 days for public comment on the proposed information collection request (ICR). The...