[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "PFAS Strategic Roadmap: DOE Commitments to Action 2022-2025"/Rocky Flats

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Today (August 18, 2022) the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published its PFAS Strategic Roadmap. See below. 

I also learned that at DOE’s former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons site in Colorado, DOE, in agreement with EPA and the State of Colorado, has found "a protectiveness determination of the remedy cannot be made at this time until further information is obtained regarding the potential risk of PFAS to human and ecological receptors.” See attached.


The “PFAS Strategic Roadmap: DOE Commitments to Action 2022-2025” establishes and details the goals, objectives and steps the Department is taking to address PFAS.   Specifically, DOE commits to:

	• Research current and past uses and known or potential releases of PFAS.
	• Investigate PFAS concentrations in DOE-supplied drinking water and in the environment at DOE sites. 
	• Proactively prevent PFAS from entering air, land, and water at levels that can adversely impact human health and the environment.
	• Clean up PFAS identified contamination to protect human health and ecological systems.
	• Leverage the expertise at DOE National Laboratories to enhance PFAS research.
	• Support inter-agency and cross-sector collaboration to identify and employ promising technologies.
	• Provide clear and credible information to our employees, local communities, and regulators.
	• Engage with stakeholders to help inform an effective Departmental PFAS strategy.
The Department is finalizing an initial assessment report that will summarize the results of a preliminary evaluation of known historic or current PFAS uses, PFAS occurrence in the environment, and regulatory and stakeholder interactions at DOE program sites.

To download a full copy, go to https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-08/DOE%20PFAS%20Roadmap%20August%202022.pdf

Attachment: Rocky Flats 5YR.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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