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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) is holding three public hearings next month on its\u00a0plans to regulate\u00a0several types of fluorinated chemicals that may pose a health risk where they\u2019re being found in public drinking water.<\/p>\n

Those levels (in parts-per-trillion, or ppt) for seven compounds are: PFNA (6-ppt); PFOA (8-ppt); PFOS (16-ppt); PFHxS (51-ppt); GenX (370-ppt); PFBS (420-ppt); PFHxA (400,000-ppt).<\/p>\n

Hearings on the state\u2019s plan to regulate PFAS chemicals in drinking water have been\u00a0scheduled\u00a0for:<\/p>\n

– Jan. 8, Grand Valley State University Eberhard Center, Grand Rapids, 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

– Jan. 14, Washtenaw Community College, Towsley Auditorium, Ann Arbor, 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

– Jan. 16, Ralph A. Macmullan Conference Center, Roscommon, 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

EGLE is taking public comment on the draft rules until Jan. 31, 2020. Following the public comment period, the draft rules will return to the ERRC for additional review.<\/p>\n

Comments can be emailed to\u00a0EGLE-PFAS-RuleMaking@Michigan.gov<\/a>\u00a0or mailed to Suzann Ruch, Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division, Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, P.O. Box 30817, Lansing, MI 48909.<\/p>\n

To read the MML’s public comment regarding our concerns with the draft rules from the October 31, ERRC meeting, see the link here:\u00a019MML_ERRC10.31<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See the story from MLive here<\/a>, and the official public notice from DTMB here.<\/p>\n

Herasanna Richards is a legislative associate handling energy, environmental, elections, and external municipal services for the League. \u00a0She can be reached at\u00a0hrichards@mml.org<\/a>\u00a0or 517-908-0309.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[194,213,455],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-environment","tag-drinking-water","tag-environment","tag-pfas","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n3 Public Hearing Dates Set in January for PFAS Draft Rules - 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