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Action on PFAS Needed

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In order to ensure that there is a system in place to protect human health and the environment against PFAS and other contaminants of concern, the state should enact the following policy solutions: 
 
Public Health

-Establish a drinking water standard for PFAS under the Michigan Safe Water Drinking Act by creating a Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for PFAS that uses the best science available. Based on a CDC draft study, this would indicate 7 ppt for PFOS and 11 ppt for PFOA, but this may change with more information.

-Reassess the cleanup standard for PFAS in Part 201 of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act due to the aforementioned CDC draft study and emerging health research.

-Fund and implement point-of-use filters for individual residents in impacted communities.

-Establish a grant program to add needed treatment technologies to public water systems, like granular activated carbon filtration processes.

-Fund the connections of residential homes to public water systems when PFAS are found in their wells, if this is available.

-Pass House Bill 5898 to fund water infrastructure projects and ensure adequate revenue to address ongoing PFAS responses around the state.

Transparency

-Require the DEQ to publish all test results and information gathered from other levels of government.

-Create and update a map with all known contaminated groundwater plumes in Michigan and make it available to the public.

-Investigate why a 2012 PFAS report was disregarded by the agency. It should be reported out why this happened and what steps have been taken to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Cleanup

-Keep in place the rule in Part 201 of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act that allows new cleanup standards to be set quickly for chemicals not currently regulated (which is virtually all PFAS).

-Pass Senate Bill 943 for a sustainable funding source for contaminated site remediation.

Accountability

-Michigan should lead a combined effort by the states to marshal the needed political forces to make the federal government, especially the Department of Defense, fund cleanup and remediation.

-Change our laws so that they hold not only the party who caused the release of chemicals responsible, but also include any company that is aware of the dangers related to the chemicals it produces and sells, but fails to disclose them to the public.

1.5 million Michigan residents have been drinking water contaminated with PFAS. We need policy solutions now to protect Michigan's residents and environment. As your constituent, I urge you to do more to address this drinking water crisis.

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