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Read. Follow. Verify.Georgia requires publicly owned treatment works to collect PFAS manufacture and use data from industrial users by December 31, 2025
Last action · February 27, 2025: House Second ReadersSponsors: Eddie Lumsden and 5 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Georgia House Bill 611 requires to request information regarding the manufacture or use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances () from all industrial and s by December 31, 2025. Industrial users must submit the requested information to treatment works and the state division by April 1, 2026, and annually thereafter. Additionally, any industrial user seeking a pretreatment permit starting April 1, 2026, must include this disclosure in their application.
Local ratepayers and public water systems face substantial financial burdens to remove persistent chemicals from drinking water sources, creating a direct public stake in identifying upstream industrial dischargers.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
publicly owned treatment works
Publicly owned treatment works must request specific PFAS manufacturing and usage information from industrial users no later than December 31, 2025.
industrial users
Industrial users and significant industrial users must disclose PFAS discharges, answer information requests by April 1, 2026, submit annual updates, and include disclosures in pretreatment permit applications.
Board of Natural Resources
The Board of Natural Resources is authorized to adopt and enforce rules and regulations necessary to implement the Code section.
Key Facts
- Publicly owned treatment works must request PFAS manufacture, use, and product information from each industrial and significant industrial user no later than December 31, 2025.
- Industrial users and significant industrial users discharging or proposing to discharge PFAS have a statutory duty to disclose such discharges.
- Industrial users must submit the requested PFAS information to their local treatment works and send a copy to the state division no later than April 1, 2026, and annually thereafter.
- Beginning April 1, 2026, industrial users seeking or reissuing a pretreatment permit from a treatment works with an approved pretreatment program must include the PFAS information in their permit application and send a copy to the state division.
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- Submitted information must be certified in writing under penalty of law by a responsible corporate officer, general partner, sole proprietor, or authorized facility manager.
- Significant industrial users include all users subject to categorical pretreatment standards, those discharging 25,000 gallons or more of process wastewater per day, those contributing 5 percent or more of dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity, or those designated by a control authority.
- The Board of Natural Resources is authorized to adopt and enforce rules and regulations necessary to implement this Code section.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
3 actions- Feb 27, 2025HouseHouse Second Readers
- Feb 26, 2025HouseIntroducedHouse First Readers
- Feb 24, 2025HouseIntroducedHouse Hopper
Version history
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Discoveries
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Shift to Upstream PFAS Disclosure
The legislation transitions policy from monitoring treated drinking water outputs to actively surveying upstream industrial inputs and manufacturing processes.
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy35Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz45Current news / social attention level
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