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The bill strengthens PFAS monitoring and control at DOD sites—improving detection and reducing local pollution—but it imposes new compliance costs and administrative burdens that could divert funds and raise costs for government agencies, utilities, and taxpayers.
Communities near DOD facilities (rural and urban) will receive mandatory at-least-quarterly monitoring of PFAS discharges, improving early detection of contamination and enabling faster public health responses.
Local communities and governments near DOD sites will see required implementation of best management practices or control technologies to reduce PFAS discharges, which should lower local water pollution over time.
Taxpayers and affected communities will benefit from a statutory commitment that at least 1% of annual DOD PFAS remediation funds are reserved for monitoring and control measures, creating a steady funding stream for those activities.
Taxpayers and DOD programs may face higher operational and compliance costs as DOD implements monitoring and control requirements, which could divert some remediation funds to recurring monitoring/operational expenses.
State environmental agencies and EPA will face administrative strain because they must process numerous permit modification requests within a year, creating potential delays and workload costs for local governments.
Utilities and contractors installing or operating control technologies near bases may incur new capital and compliance expenses to meet the requirements, raising costs for those companies and potentially for ratepayers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs DoD to seek stormwater permit changes requiring quarterly PFAS monitoring and BMPs/control technologies, and to spend at least 1% of PFAS remediation funds yearly on those activities.
Introduced July 28, 2025 by Kirsten Gillibrand · Last progress July 28, 2025
Requires the Secretary of Defense, within one year of enactment, to ask the issuing State or the EPA Administrator to modify each Department of Defense facility stormwater permit to require quarterly monitoring for PFAS and to require implementation of best management practices or control technologies to reduce PFAS discharges. The bill exempts permits that already include both monitoring and reduction measures and directs that at least 1% annually of funds authorized for DoD PFAS remediation be obligated or spent each fiscal year on the new monitoring and reduction activities. This changes permitting and spending practice for DoD stormwater at its facilities: it pushes for more frequent, routine PFAS monitoring and for concrete actions to limit PFAS leaving DoD sites, using a small portion of existing remediation funds to pay for those activities.