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Wednesday August 12, 2020 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

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PFAS Chemical Action Plan Update

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Today’s webinar

Introduction

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Recap past PFAS CAP activity Draft CAP update Public engagement approach Next steps Advisory Committee questions Public questions 1 2 3 4 6 5

Introductions

Agency Staff

Ecology Ecology

• Irina Makarow, HWTR Chemical

Action Planner

• Darin Rice, HWTR Program

Manager

• Maria Blackshear, webinar

coordination

• Megan Smith, webinar

coordination

Health Health

• Laura Johnson, Director,

Environmental Public Health Sciences

• Brian Walsh, Section Manager,

Office of Drinking Water

Not Not here today:

• Lauren Tamboer, Ecology HWTR

Communications Consultant

• Barbara Morrissey, Health

Toxicologist

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Advisory Committee

• Contacted

representatives March 2020.

• Confirmed their

continued participation.

• Association of Washington Business
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• Carpet and Rug Institute*
• City of Issaquah
• Clean Production Action
• FluoroCouncil
• Green Science Policy Institute
• Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological

Disorders

• Island County Public Health
• King County Department of Natural Resources

and Parks

• Washington State Patrol, Fire Training Academy
• Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest
• Outdoor Industry Association
• Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe
• Port of Seattle Aviation
• Port of Seattle Fire Department
• Toxic-Free Future
• University of Washington
• Whidbey Island Water Systems Association
• Whitman College
• Zero Waste Washington

*The Carpet and Rug Institute will not participate on the committee after March 2020.

PFAS CAP 2016 – Now SPWA 2018 PFAS AA 2019

Board of Health Rulemaking

CAP and other PFAS activity

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• State Board of Health

̶ Drinking Water Standards Rulemaking WAC 246-290

̶ Standards for certain PFAS for Group A public water systems. ̶ Expanded risk-based testing of drinking water supplies.

• Ecology and Health

̶ Safer Products for Washington (Chapter 70.365 RCW). ̶ PFAS food packaging alternatives assessment (Chapter 70.95G RCW).

PFAS Rulemaking Process

• Recognize importance of unregulated

contaminants in drinking water

• Use best available science to establish

health-based values

• Learn occurrence in WA
• Inform public if exposed
• Inform Ecology’s cleanup standards
• Help water systems respond to

contaminants

• Provide a bridge to future EPA

rulemaking 7 Objectives

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Previous PFAS CAP Activity

Where were we in the process?

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2016 – 18: Collected information, drafted chapters 2017 – 18: Worked with advisory committee members 2018 – 2019: Published the Interim CAP May 2019: Preliminary recommendations July 2019: Received Advisory Committee comments Summer 2019: Prepare Draft CAP

We were here

2019 Preliminary Recommendations

• Ensure safe drinking water
• Manage environmental contamination
• Reduce PFAS in products
• Understand and manage PFAS in

waste

• https://www.ezview.wa.gov/Portals/_1

962/Documents/PFAS/PrelimRecom mendations-2019-PFAS-CAP.pdf

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Preparing the Draft CAP

• 2019 Preliminary

Recommendations & supporting “chapters”

• July 2019 Advisory

Committee comments

• Considered AC Comments
• Updated with new

information since 2019

• Standardized appendices

presentation

• Consolidated information
• Basis for

recommendations

• Streamlined current

activity discussions

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Draft CAP for Public Comment

• Draft CAP
• App 1: Chemistry
• App 2: Analytical methods
• App 3: Sources and uses
• App 4: Fate and transport
• App 5: Ecotoxicology
• App 6: Occurrence
• App 7: Health
• App 8: Biosolids
• App 9: Regulations
• App 10: Economic analysis

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Next Step: Public Comment

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2016 – 18: Collected information, drafted chapters 2017 – 18: Worked with advisory committee members September 2018: Published the Interim CAP May 2019: Recommendation & cost webinar Summer 2020: Prepared Draft CAP September/ November 2020: Publish Draft CAP & public comment December 2020 – February 2021: Comment review Spring 2021: Publish Final CAP

We are here

Public Engagement Approach

WAC 173-333-430(6)

Public Comment Requirements

Methods of notice:

• Publish notice in the Washington State

Register.

• Post on Ecology website.
• Send to interested persons/organizations.

Open a 60-day public comment period. Conduct two public meetings:

• One in eastern Washington.
• One in western Washington.

Covid-19 considerations.

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Planned Approach

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• Check Covid-19 situation throughout public involvement

planning and implementation.

̶ Are meetings allowed? ̶ Can they be conducted safely under agency guidance?

• Emphasize virtual participation opportunities.

̶ Advisory Committee webinar briefing post-issuance. ̶ Webinars addressing CAP as a whole (general public). ̶ Topical webinars for more targeted audiences.

Community Engagement

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• Use existing/required notification methods.
• Identify and contact organizations with interest.
• Identify and contact communities with interest.

̶ Include Environmental Justice populations, Tribal Nations.

• Implement solutions to participation barriers.

̶ Distribute flyers? ̶ Virtual meetings with Ecology staff? ̶ Tailored webinars with community groups?

• Recommendations for target organizations?

Next Steps

Next Steps

Issuing the CAP for public comment.

August – September 2020

Finalize draft CAP

• Internal agency briefings.
• Finalize revisions.

August – October 2020

Implement engagement

• Identify communities/organizations.
• Initiate outreach.
• Develop communication materials.

3Q 2020

Issue draft CAP for comment

• Conduct webinars.
• Conduct engagement.
• Receive comments.

Advisory Committee Questions

Public Questions

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PFAS CAP Contacts

Irina Irina Mak akar arow, CAP AP lead lead

• 360-407-6250
• irina.makarow@ecy.wa.gov

PFAS CAP website

https://www.ezview.wa.gov/?alias=1962&pagei d=37105

PFAS CAP email list

http://listserv.ecology.wa.gov/scripts/wa- ECOLOGY.exe?A0=CHEMICAL-ACTION-PLAN

Agency Web Pages

• Ecology: https://ecology.wa.gov/PFAS
• DOH:

https://www.doh.wa.gov/CommunityandEnvironment/Co ntaminants/PFAS

Thank you for your time!

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