What is the status of the Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs)?
EPA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 3M and Dyneon LLC on October 25, 2004 for monitoring in the vicinity of a fluoropolymer manufacture facility in Decatur, Alabama. All information relevant to this MOU can be found in Docket OPPT-2004-0112 EPA also signed on MOU with DuPont on August 2005, concerning monitoring at the Washington Works facility in Parkersburg, WV. All information relevant to this MOU can be found in Docket OPPT-2004-0113. These MOUs are publicly negotiated agreements among EPA, industry, and interested parties that require the signing companies to generate data and submit those data to EPA on a specified schedule. These are very similar to ECAs except that these MOUs are non-enforceable. These MOUs are expected to characterize potential releases from manufacturing facilities to evaluate the potential presence of PFOA and PFOA precursors in air, water, soils, sediments, and biota.
