New Hampshire was the first state to require local water systems, landfills and wastewater plants to routinely test and treat for four chemicals classified as PFAS.
Proposed Policies
Safer States provides the most current proposed and adopted legislation on toxins. On the map, click on New Hampshire and open up the pages with proposed and adopted legislation. You can track each bill through the entire legislative process.
S.B.169: Appropriations bill. Provides $9.7 million to fund water supply improvements to increase water supply capacity in order to make public water supply available to residents on private wells and water systems impacted by PFAS contamination in southern New Hampshire.
H.B.205: Requires that property buyers be notified of the presence of radon, arsenic, PFAS, and lead in well water before the execution of a contract for purpose.
H.B.398: Requires certain notice of PFAS and other groundwater contamination prior to the sale of real property.
H.B.414: Requires insurance coverage for preventative PFAS care.
H.B.242: Prohibits the sale and distribution of food packaging that contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, beginning January 1, 2024.
H.B.465: Restricts the use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in rugs, carpets, and aftermarket stain and water-resistant treatments.
H.B.614: Directs the department of health and human services to develop a health outcomes repository related to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
H.B.212: Requires the department of environmental services to investigate, test, and monitor for PFAS in soil, groundwater, surface water, wastewater, air, biota, and other media. Appropriates $2 million to the PFAS Response Fund.
S.B.138: Appropriates $5 million to the PFAS remediation loan fund.
Adopted Regulation
A snapshot of PFAS regulations in New Hampshire can be found at:
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/pfas-state-snapshot-new-hampshire-pfas-20785/
SB309: Requires the commissioner of the department of environmental services to adopt a state drinking water standard, and ambient and surface groundwater standards for perflurochemicals. (Adopted in 2018) HB 737 /
HB 737: Establishes a commission to investigate and analyze the environmental and public health impacts relating to releases of perfluorinated chemicals in the air, soil, and groundwater in Merrimack, Bedford and Litchfield. (Adopted in 2019)
SB 257: Prohibits the manufacture, sale, use, and purchase of firefighting foams containing PFAS. (Adopted in 2019)
HB 1264: Sets Maximum Contaminant Levels for PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, and PFNA in drinking water; establishes PFAS fund. (Adopted in 2020)
New Hampshire Governmental Departments, Regulations, and Lawsuits
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