22-11C-1 Legislative Findings
22-11C-2 Definitions
22-11C-3 Identification of PFAS sources where PFAS has been detected in raw water sources for public drinking water systems
22-11C-4 Self-reporting of PFAS manufacture and use, monitoring of PFAS discharges, and establishment of PFAS water quality criteria

Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 22 > Article 11C - Pfas Protection Act

  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Office: means any office, division, board, agency, unit, organizational entity or component thereof within the Department of Environmental Protection. See West Virginia Code 22-1-2
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • PFAS: means non-polymeric perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances that contain at least two fully fluorinated carbon atoms, excluding gases and volatile liquids. See West Virginia Code 22-11C-2
  • Publicly Owned Treatment Works: means any treatment works owned by the state or any political subdivision thereof, any municipality or any other public entity, for the treatment of pollutants as well as any such treatment works that were subsequently conveyed to a private entity which delivers wastewater treatment services under the regulation of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia. See West Virginia Code 22-11C-2
  • Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. See West Virginia Code 22-11C-2
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • USGS study: means United States Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5067, entitled "Occurrence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Inorganic Analytes in Groundwater and Surface Water Used as Sources for Public Water Supplies in West Virginia" published in 2022. See West Virginia Code 22-11C-2