{"id":15509,"date":"2021-03-05T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paawwa.org\/?p=15509"},"modified":"2021-03-05T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:35:00","slug":"epa-finalizes-regulatory-determinations-ccl4-pfos-and-pfoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/epa-finalizes-regulatory-determinations-ccl4-pfos-and-pfoa\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA finalizes regulatory determinations (CCL4) PFOS and PFOA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>EPA finalizes regulatory determinations (CCL4) PFOS and PFOA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The March 3, 2021 \u00a0<em>Federal Register<\/em>\u00a0Notice is here: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/03\/03\/2021-04184\/announcement-of-final-regulatory-determinations-for-contaminants-on-the-fourth-drinking-water\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/03\/03\/2021-04184\/announcement-of-final-regulatory-determinations-for-contaminants-on-the-fourth-drinking-water&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615055570953000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFZXURboHJ5ia9E1M3xh__oAPh66w\">https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/03\/03\/2021-04184\/announcement-of-final-regulatory-determinations-for-contaminants-on-the-fourth-drinking-water<\/a>\u00a0 [use the PDF button on the right hand side for the best version]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On February, 22, 2021, EPA reissued final regulatory determinations for contaminants on the\u00a0fourth\u00a0Contaminant Candidate List (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ccl\/contaminant-candidate-list-4-ccl-4-0\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ccl\/contaminant-candidate-list-4-ccl-4-0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615055570953000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE2qucpK-RzZi9ExAGKdvpSpai0lA\">CCL 4<\/a>).\u00a0<strong>EPA is making final determinations\u00a0to regulate two\u00a0contaminants, perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), in drinking water and to not regulate six contaminants (i.e., 1,1-dichloroethane, acetochlor, methyl bromide (bromomethane), metolachlor, nitrobenzene, and RDX).<\/strong>\u00a0With the final Regulatory Determinations for PFOA and PFOS, EPA will move forward to implement the national primary drinking water regulation development process for these two PFAS. The Regulatory Determinations also outline avenues that the agency is considering to further evaluate additional PFAS chemicals and provide flexibility for the agency to consider groups of PFAS as supported by the best available science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>EPA\u2019s webpage also has more info:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ccl\/regulatory-determination-4\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ccl\/regulatory-determination-4&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615055570953000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHW7kOUkXbw0xuUS7LpSLWrBcsxxQ\">https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ccl\/regulatory-determination-4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nPatti Kay Wisniewski<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drinking Water Preparedness and Resiliency Coordinator<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US EPA Region 3<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drinking Water Section (3WD21)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1650 Arch Street<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phila, PA\u00a0 19103<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">215-814-5668<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cell: 215-514-7893<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Wisniewski.patti-kay@epa.gov\">Wisniewski.patti-kay@epa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(note the hyphen appears in email only)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPA finalizes regulatory determinations (CCL4) PFOS and PFOA The March 3, 2021 \u00a0Federal Register\u00a0Notice is here: \u00a0https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/03\/03\/2021-04184\/announcement-of-final-regulatory-determinations-for-contaminants-on-the-fourth-drinking-water\u00a0 [use the PDF button on the right hand side for the best version] On February, 22, 2021, EPA reissued final regulatory determinations for contaminants on the\u00a0fourth\u00a0Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 4).\u00a0EPA is making final determinations\u00a0to regulate two\u00a0contaminants, perfluorooctanesulfonic acid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,14,7,5,11,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15510,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509\/revisions\/15510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}