This bill would add a new section to title 10 of the U.S. Code requiring the Secretary of Defense to provide Congress with yearly reports about the Department of Defense's interim cleanup actions for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The reports must show funding budgeted and obligated per site, and, after the first report, funding budgeted, obligated, and expensed since the prior report. Each report must list interim remedial actions at each installation and give phase-specific status updates (design, contracting, construction/execution, operation), identify one-time actions (like soil removal), provide timelines and explanations for delays over 12 months, and identify barriers and plans to address them.
The bill also requires the Secretary to deliver a PFAS remediation acceleration strategy within 180 days. That strategy must set criteria for prioritizing installations by health and environmental risk and proximity to communities, give timelines for each phase of the CERCLA cleanup process, describe plans to deploy extra resources or personnel (including counts of Defense-accredited and pending-accreditation laboratories that test for PFAS), and set benchmarks to evaluate each military department or agency's PFAS response.
Finally, the Secretary must publish an accessible online dashboard within one year that is updated twice a year. The dashboard must include site-by-site funding and expenditures, remediation and investigation status, projected and actual completion timelines, and community points of contact.
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