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Introduced December 4, 2025 by Chellie Pingree · Last progress December 4, 2025
The bill provides targeted federal funding, technical assistance, and regulatory tools to detect, remediate, and mitigate PFAS contamination in agriculture — benefiting farmers, communities, and governments — while increasing federal spending and creating administrative burdens, potential regulatory uncertainty, and uneven outcomes for some affected parties.
Farmers and rural communities receive coordinated federal support — grants, technical assistance, health monitoring, income replacement/compensation, and eligibility within USDA programs — to detect, mitigate, and manage PFAS contamination on agricultural land.
State and local governments gain federal grant funding, EPA coordination, and technical assistance that lower local costs and build capacity to respond to PFAS contamination.
The bill improves PFAS detection and remediation knowledge by funding environmental testing, long-term monitoring, a centralized data repository, research, and technical assistance for remediation and food-safety practices.
Taxpayers face increased federal spending (including the $500 million authorization) and potential impacts on the budget or deficit to fund grants, compensation, monitoring, research, and infrastructure.
State and local agencies and producers could face substantial administrative and compliance burdens — preparing spend plans, applications, reports, and meeting program conditions — which can slow aid and divert limited local resources.
Assistance may be uneven: USDA-focused eligibility and program targeting plus limits of grant programs mean non-enrolled farms, some small producers, or certain communities could receive less or no support and some investments may not restore profitability for all.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Creates a USDA grant program (authorized $500M for FY2026–2029) to help jurisdictions address PFAS contamination of farmland, water, and farm products.
Creates a USDA grant program to help states, territories, the District of Columbia, and Indian Tribes respond when PFAS contamination makes farmland, irrigation or livestock water, or farm products unsafe. The program funds testing, health monitoring, compensation for contaminated land or products (including depopulation/disposal), investments and income support to help farms stay viable during remediation or transition, research, education, long-term monitoring with a central data repository, and marketing support for unaffected producers. Authorizes $500 million for fiscal years 2026–2029, requires annual reporting from grant recipients, sets a minimum 30% annual set-aside for jurisdictions with populations under 3,000,000, and creates an internal USDA task force to advise on adding PFAS response activities to USDA programs and to provide technical assistance.