AB 842

This bill provides funding and positions for the provisions in 2019 Assembly Bill

.... (LRB-5532), relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

regulation.

The bill provides $250,000 as a onetime appropriation from the environmental

fund for the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to provide a grant to a campus

to research technologies for destroying PFAS.

The bill also provides $1,000,000 as a onetime appropriation from the

environmental fund for the Department of Natural Resources to test for PFAS in

noncommunity water systems that may be in proximity to PFAS contamination and

in municipal public water supply systems.

In addition, the bill provides $150,000 biennially from the environmental fund

for DNR to sample and test the environment, wildlife, facilities, and other sites for

PFAS.

The bill provides, as a onetime appropriation, $120,000 from the environmental

fund for DNR to investigate emerging PFAS and to provide temporary potable water

or treatment systems when no responsible party for contamination is available.

The bill also provides $5,000,000 biennially from the environmental fund for

the PFAS municipal grant program created under 2019 Assembly Bill ....

(LRB-5532).

In addition, the bill expands the purpose of an existing appropriation to the

Department of Health Services so that it may be used to fund the blood testing

program and cancer cluster study required under 2019 Assembly Bill ....

(LRB-5532).

The bill also creates a new appropriation for the settlement funds collected and

deposited into the PFAS action fund created under 2019 Assembly Bill ....

(LRB-5532) so that the funds may be used for the purposes for which they are

received.

Finally, the bill provides funding for the two new DHS positions created under

2019 Assembly Bill .... (LRB-5532).