As the Environmental Compliance & Emerging Contaminants Program Manager at Pace®, I am often asked for my insights on current and pending legislation. Biosolids, in particular, are gaining increased attention from the media, the public, and legislators across the country. Recently, Nick Nigro, Pace® PFAS Product Manager, and I conducted a webinar on PFAS in biosolids. I began the presentation by discussing the current regulatory landscape. In this post, I’ll recap my comments on the federal regulatory landscape and add some perspectives I didn’t have time to get into in the webinar.  

The last few weeks have been very busy for the PFAS team here at Pace®. Typically, I cover both federal and state PFAS action in our monthly newsletter. However, with the publication of the Spring Unified Agenda, there is so much activity at the federal level I decided to make that our sole focus in this month’s PFAS News & Views.  

As the transition continues, it’s still uncertain what stance the new administration will take on PFAS. However, things should start to clear up as the U.S. EPA begins to take action on plans temporarily stalled under the Regulatory Freeze Pending Review. In this month’s PFAS News and Views, we look at what the future holds for several programs as well as several other items of interest to our PFAS clients.

To better understand how PFAS passes from industry through Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs), the EPA recently proposed an Information Collection Rule (ICR) focused on PFAS in wastewater influent, effluent, and biosolids. Paul Jackson, Pace® Analytical Program Manager for Environmental Compliance and Emerging Contaminants, delivered a webinar covering the basics of the proposal and its impact on our customers. In this post, I will cover some of the critical highlights. I also invite you to watch the webinar on-demand for a deeper dive.

On February 2nd, Pace® delivered a live webinar titled “A Deep Dive into the Third Revision of Draft Method 1633.” This webinar was widely attended, and as anticipated, we received a number of questions using the Q&A feature on the portal. Since there were too many questions to answer in the time allotted and the questions received are relevant to the entire PFAS stakeholder community, we decided to create a downloadable FAQ.