Bill > HB1314

This bill directs the Washington State Department of Ecology to petition the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reassess its regulations on the inadvertent generation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in excluded manufacturing processes under the Toxic Substances Control Act. The bill also identifies paints and printing inks as priority consumer products containing PCBs, and requires the Department of Ecology to establish a restriction or prohibition on the use of PCBs in these products by June 2025 and adopt implementing rules by December 2026. The bill aims to address the continued presence of PCBs in the environment and their potential health and environmental impacts, despite the 1979 ban on the production of PCBs in the United States.