Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 10
- Latest action
- Mar 24, 2026
What it does
The Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act would require the EPA Administrator to issue a final rule within 60 days of enactment prohibiting the discharge of plastic pellets or other pre-production plastic materials from facilities regulated under specific federal wastewater rules and from any point source involved in making, using, packaging, or transporting such materials. The ban would apply to discharges into wastewater, stormwater, and other runoff, and the requirements must be incorporated into all relevant federal and state-issued permits under the Clean Water Act’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (Section 402) and into performance standards under Section 312(p) of the Act.…
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