EPA Announces Measures to Address PFAS Contamination by ACWA staff Apr 29, 2022 Water News WASHINGTON, DC – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced several steps to address PFAS contamination in line with its PFAS Strategic Roadmap. The steps include improving methods to detect PFAS in water, reducing PFAS discharges, and protecting aquatic life from PFAS. Listed actions include: Publishing a new testing method, Draft Method 1621, to detect PFAS in wastewater. Updating the pollution discharge permitting scheme, National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), to address PFAS. Developing new water quality criteria for PFOA and PFOS to protect aquatic life and ecosystems. The water quality criteria for PFOA and PFOS will each have a 30-day comment period once the criteria are published in the Federal Register. For questions regarding PFAS, please contact ACWA Federal Relations Representative Madeline Voitier.