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In Washington, D.C., today the U.S.
EPA issued a formal 60-day comment period on advanced
notice of proposed rulemaking proposing to add PFAS to
the TRI list of chemicals for annual reporting.
The goal is to provide useful information to
stakeholders and to provide EPA with data on the release
and waste management of PFAS.
EPA is considering adding PFAS to its list of
chemicals of special concern and establishing lower
volumetric reporting thresholds.
Currently, the volumetric thresholds requiring
TRI reporting are 25,000 pounds for manufacturing or
processing facilities and 10,000 pounds for facilities
otherwise using a chemical on the TRI list.
However, EPA has established much lower
thresholds for chemicals that are considered persistent,
bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT).
These thresholds are 100 pounds for PBT chemicals
and 10 pounds for highly PBT chemicals.
The EPA is taking public comment on:
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whether the reporting of PFAS should occur for individual compounds or as a group;
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which of the approximately 600 PFAS individual compounds should be listed and reported;
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what threshold should be set to capture most of the releases from facilities that must report; and
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any additional toxicity information that would support a listing under TRI.