EPA announces intent to keep PFOA/PFOS MCLs while pursuing compliance extension and reconsidering/rescinding other PFAS components

EPA press communication states the agency will retain the maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for PFOA and PFOS under the PFAS NPDWR, while signaling planned rulemaking to extend the compliance timeline and to reconsider (including possible rescission) other PFAS components of the 2024 drinking water rule. Compliance teams should treat this as a policy/enforcement direction signal that may affect planning for monitoring, treatment deployment, and state primacy actions, while awaiting binding proposed/final rule text.