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The results of such tests shall be transmitted to the receiving publicly owned treatment works within three days of receipt of the test results by the industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1399774,"text":"As used in this section, &#8220;PFAS chemical&#8221; means (i) Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), (ii) Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), (iii) hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA), (iv) perfluorobutane sulfonate (PFBS), or (v) any substance in a class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least two adjacent fluorinated carbon atoms, where one carbon atom is fully fluorinated and the other atom is at least partially fluorinated, excluding gases and volatile liquids, also referred to as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, identified by a publicly owned treatment works in its pretreatment program for which there is an EPA approved testing method.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":1399775,"text":"The pretreatment standards adopted by the Board shall require any industrial user of a publicly owned treatment works that receives and cleans, repairs, refurbishes, or processes any equipment, parts, or media used to treat any water or wastewater from any off-site manufacturing process that the industrial user knows or reasonably should know uses PFAS chemicals to test its wastestream for PFAS chemicals prior to and after cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, or processing such items. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0276\">276<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1496431,"object_type":"law","relational_id":375022,"identifier":"62.1-44.15:5.3","token":"62.1\/3.1\/2\/62.1-44.15_5.3","url":"\/62.1-44.15_5.3\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/62.1-44.15_5.3\/","token":"62.1\/3.1\/2\/62.1-44.15_5.3","dublin_core":{"Title":"Requirements to test for PFAS chemicals; publicly owned treatment works","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 62.1-44.15:5.3","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">A.<\/span> As used in this section, &#8220;<span class=\"dictionary\">PFAS chemical<\/span>&#8221; means (i) Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), (ii) Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), (iii) hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA), (iv) perfluorobutane sulfonate (PFBS), or (v) any substance in a class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least two adjacent fluorinated carbon atoms, where one carbon atom is fully fluorinated and the other atom is at least partially fluorinated, excluding gases and volatile liquids, also referred to as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, identified by a publicly owned <span class=\"dictionary\">treatment works<\/span> in its pretreatment program for which there is an EPA approved testing method. <a id=\"paragraph-1399774\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/62.1-44.15_5.3\/#A\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"B\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">B.<\/span> The <span class=\"dictionary\">pretreatment standards<\/span> adopted by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> shall require any industrial user of a publicly owned <span class=\"dictionary\">treatment works<\/span> that receives and cleans, repairs, refurbishes, or processes any equipment, parts, or media used to treat any water or wastewater from any off-site manufacturing process that the industrial user knows or reasonably should know uses <span class=\"dictionary\">PFAS chemicals<\/span> to test its wastestream for <span class=\"dictionary\">PFAS chemicals<\/span> prior to and after cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, or processing such items. The results of such tests shall be transmitted to the receiving publicly owned <span class=\"dictionary\">treatment works<\/span> within three days of receipt of the test results by the industrial user of the publicly owned <span class=\"dictionary\">treatment works<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-1399775\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/62.1-44.15_5.3\/#B\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREQUIREMENTS TO TEST FOR PFAS CHEMICALS; PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (\u00a7\n62.1-44.15:5.3)\n\nA. As used in this section, &#8220;PFAS chemical&#8221; means (i)\nPerfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), (ii) Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), (iii)\nhexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA), (iv) perfluorobutane sulfonate\n(PFBS), or (v) any substance in a class of fluorinated organic chemicals\ncontaining at least two adjacent fluorinated carbon atoms, where one carbon atom\nis fully fluorinated and the other atom is at least partially fluorinated,\nexcluding gases and volatile liquids, also referred to as perfluoroalkyl and\npolyfluoroalkyl substances, identified by a publicly owned treatment works in\nits pretreatment program for which there is an EPA approved testing method.\n\nB. The pretreatment standards adopted by the Board shall require any industrial\nuser of a publicly owned treatment works that receives and cleans, repairs,\nrefurbishes, or processes any equipment, parts, or media used to treat any water\nor wastewater from any off-site manufacturing process that the industrial user\nknows or reasonably should know uses PFAS chemicals to test its wastestream for\nPFAS chemicals prior to and after cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, or\nprocessing such items. The results of such tests shall be transmitted to the\nreceiving publicly owned treatment works within three days of receipt of the\ntest results by the industrial user of the publicly owned treatment works.\n\nHISTORY: 2023, c. 276.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}