Sec. 327. Joint Department of Defense and Department of Agriculture study on bioremediation of PFAS using mycological organic matter
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The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, and the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service, shall jointly carry out a study on the bioremediation of PFAS using mycological organic matter. Such study shall commence not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Agriculture shall jointly submit to the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Armed Services of the House or Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Nutrition and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report on the study conducted pursuant to subsection (a).
In this section, the term PFAS means per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.