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Thank you Chair and Members of the Committee. I am Calvin Farr, the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer for Prince William Water. • The Occoquan Reservoir is a vital source of drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in Prince William and Fairfax Counties • Half of all residents of Prince William County obtain their drinking water from the Occoquan Reservoir • In 1971, the State of Virginia created the Occoquan Policy to protect this critical water supply reservoir from point source pollution • Further, you are likely aware that certain “forever chemicals,” collectively referred to as PFAS, have been detected in the Occoquan Reservoir. • The EPA has determined that PFAS are extremely toxic, saying that exposure to as little as 4 parts per trillion in drinking water creates an unacceptable health risk. • While EPA has passed legislation that requires water utilities to remove PFAS from drinking water, legislation is still needed to keep PFAS out of the Occoquan • House Bill 2050, Occoquan Reservoir PFAS Reduction Program, will have the dual benefit of protecting the Occoquan, as well as ensuring that the cost of removing PFAS from drinking water is not borne solely by utility rate payers. • It is simple, if we don’t want a pollutant in our drinking water, we should prevent that pollutant from being put into our source water, which is the Occoquan • Virginia recognized this principle 50 years ago when it created the Occoquan Policy, and it’s time to do so again. • Prince William Water is for House Bill 2050 • I want to thank the committee for the opportunity to speak on this very important issue

I am David Sligh, Conservation Director at Wild Virginia. I would like to thank Del. Bulova for his efforts on HB2050 and for accepting and responding to some concerns from the conservation community. We believe the substitute offered today is significantly improved over the version first introduced and we are grateful for those changes. We do have some continuing concerns, as follows: 1) We believe that basing compliance with permit limits on a running annual average of monitoring results, as included in 1.B., can allow harmful levels to be discharged and affect the water supply and that the variability in discharges should weigh against this condition; 2) The addition of an exception to municipal solid waste facilities under 1.D. is unwise, given that landfill leachate is a known and often significant source of PFAS in discharges and would be a serious threat to water supplies; 3) The allowance for cessation of monitoring after four consecutive samples below method detection levels, as allowed under 1.A. may allow dangerous levels of PFAS to be released. The variability in discharges can be quite significant due to variations in industrial processes an other factors and ongoing monitoring is important. Wild Virginia opposes HB2517 from Delegate Runion and asks the subcommittee to reject it. The bill's exemption for sludge land application on land owned and operated by institutions of higher education would be unfair to the public and could create threats to state waters and residents around these sites. Current regulations require public notice and opportunity to comment and these are necessary to let people know what is happening in their communities and have the chance to influence the decisions about these activities. Sludge that is land applied contains many pollutants, including in most if not all cases PFAS, and the normal regulatory process and permit conditions must be used for these sites as they are for all others in the state. Educational institutions have the capacity to meet the regulations and should be required to abide by them.

Statement of the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District in Support of HB 2050 The mission of the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District is to promote sustainable urban and suburban activities and stewardship to conserve our soil, water, air, plants, and animal resources in Fairfax County, home of 1.2 million Virginians. We are one of 47 Districts in the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts. We support HB 20250, patroned by Delegate Bulova. The bill would reduce the amount of the class of chemicals known as PFAS in the drinking water supply of Fairfax County provided from the Occoquan Reservoir. In recent years scientists have become increasingly aware of and concerned about the human health effects of PFAS, so we commend Delegate Bulova for patroning this bill to require monitoring and eventually regulation of PFAS in industrial discharges that end up in the Occoquan watershed. We feel it is appropriate to empower local governments to take actions to improve the environmental quality of their communities. We urge the Committee to promptly take positive action on HB 2050.

The mission of the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District is to promote sustainable urban and suburban activities and stewardship to conserve our soil, water, air, plants, and animal resources in Fairfax County, home of 1.2 million Virginians. We are one of 47 Districts in the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts. We support HB 20250, patroned by Delegate Bulova. The bill would reduce the amount of the class of chemicals known as PFAS in the drinking water supply of Fairfax County provided from the Occoquan Reservoir. In recent years scientists have become increasingly aware of and concerned about the human health effects of PFAS, so we commend Delegate Bulova for patroning this bill to require monitoring and eventually regulation of PFAS in industrial discharges that end up in the Occoquan watershed. We feel it is appropriate to empower local governments to take actions to improve the environmental quality of their communities. We urge the Committee to promptly take positive action on HB 2050.

I urge you to support HB1941, Invasive plants are causing damage to our environment by crowding out native plants that support birds and other wildlife. Invasive plants such as English Ivy that continue to be sold commercially migrate from where they are planted to populate roadsides and parks. I have been a volunteer leader for Fairfax County Parks’ invasive removal efforts since 2006. My volunteers can’t keep up with the spread of invasive plants in our parks, we can only suppress their spread temporarily. By educating consumers to the harm that these plants cause, we can hope to actually reduce their spread and the destruction of our environment . HB 1941 is a logical and reasonable step towards controlling these known invasive plants. As a resident of Fairfax County whose drinking water comes from the Occoquan watershed, I urge you to support HB 2050 to remove pfas forever chemicals from our drinking water. They are known carcinogens. Thank you.