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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>375022</law_id><section_number>62.1-44.15:5.3</section_number><catch_line>Requirements to test for PFAS chemicals; publicly owned treatment works</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="132" identifier="62.1">Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="6" identifier="3.1">State Water Control Law</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="2" identifier="2">Control Board Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> As used in this section, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">PFAS chemical</span>&#x201D; 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"/></a></p></section>
						<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"/></a></p></section></text><history>2023, c. 276.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
