Sec. 222. PFAS review and inventory at Corps facilities
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Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this section, and annually thereafter the Secretary shall complete an inventory of Corps of Engineers civil works facilities that are or may be contaminated, or could become contaminated, by PFAS. In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall review and identify— all facilities owned or operated by the Corps of Engineers, for which there is a civil works function, that are or may be contaminated, or could become contaminated, by PFAS; the nature and extent of any such contamination or potential for contamination, including any potential pathways for human exposure to PFAS; response measures taken to monitor, control, remove, or remediate PFAS, or otherwise reduce the risk of human exposure to PFAS; for facilities identified under subparagraph (A), the extent to which such facilities (or any such contamination or potential for contamination at such facilities) are related to the civil works functions of the Corps of Engineers; the extent to which the Secretary, or other entities, may have responsibility for such contamination or potential for contamination; and for facilities identified under subparagraph (A), the costs to remediate and reduce the risk of human exposure to PFAS.
To the maximum extent practicable, the actions taken under this subsection shall supplement and support work undertaken by other Federal agencies, including actions taken pursuant to the plan published by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, titled EPA’s Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
(PFAS)Action Plan and dated February 2019. Upon completion of the inventory under paragraph (1), and annually thereafter concurrent with the President’s annual budget request to Congress, the Secretary shall submit the inventory to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate. The Secretary, acting through the Hazardous Waste Research Center located at the Engineer Research and Development Center, shall, to the maximum extent practicable, support the efforts of other Federal agencies in the development of innovative technologies and methodologies for the detection, treatment, and cleanup of PFAS associated with Federal facilities, including groundwater associated with such facilities. Nothing in this subsection is intended to duplicate the activities undertaken by other Federal agencies as identified in subsection (a)(3). In this section, the term PFAS means a perfluoroalkyl substance or polyfluoroalkyl substance with at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.