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RESOLUTION NO. 6877
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
SUPPORTING FEDERAL PFAS LEGISLATION THAT PROTECTS
RATEPAYERS AND WATERNVASTEWATER AGENCIES
WHEREAS, PFAS are a group of chemicals developed by chemical manufacturers
that would otherwise not exist naturally and despite playing no role in releasing PFAS into
the environment, cities and water agencies must find ways to remove them from local
water supplies; and
WHEREAS, PFAS have been detected in the Orange County Groundwater Basin,
managed by Orange County Water District, and are estimated to cost Orange County
communities more than $1 billion, over 30 years—a cost that will likely increase; and
WHEREAS, ratepayers are at risk from pending PFAS legislation and associated
PFAS costs and water agencies and stakeholders must take action to inform members of
Congress of these devastating impacts; and
WHEREAS, all PFAS-related legislation must exempt water and wastewater
agencies from any liability for PFAS cleanup costs; and
WHEREAS, a water utility that complies with applicable and appropriate federal
management and treatment standards must not be responsible for current and future
costs associated with a PFAS cleanup; and
WHEREAS, given the potential for federal legislation, such as the PFAS Action Act
of 2021 (H.R. 2467), to expose water agencies that simply receive and treat water
supplies with across-the-board liability for PFAS-related cleanups when they have no
responsibility for the presence of PFAS, an explicit exemption from Superfund clean-up
liability must be made for water and wastewater agencies; and
WHEREAS, under existing law(Safe Drinking Water Act), the USEPA ensures that
public health benefits of new drinking water standards are reasonably balanced with the
compliance costs that water system ratepayers will ultimately incur and eliminating this
analysis would burden ratepayers of all income levels with astronomical costs to comply
with drinking water standards; and
WHEREAS, when setting drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, we
advocate for the USEPA to use this longstanding methodology.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Cypress hereby supports these federal PFAS policy principles to protect
water/wastewater agencies and their ratepayers; and
FURTHERMORE, we call upon the Orange County Congressional Delegation and
California Senatorial Delegation to cast votes implementing these public policy positions.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cypress at a regular
meeting held on the 14th day of February, 2022.
a . 1 I,
AYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ATTEST:
U4:ACITY CLERK OF T E CITY OF CYPRESS
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I, ALISHA FARNELL, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that
the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the said City Council held
on the 14"' day of February, 2022, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 4 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Minikus, Peat, Hertz-Mallari and Morales
NOES: 1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Marquez
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
CITY CLERK F THE CITY OF CYPRESS