The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission is to decide during its next meeting in Raleigh whether to begin the process of setting new groundwater quality standards for three herbicides and a fungicide.
The commission is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, in the Ground Floor Hearing Room of the Archdale Building. The public can attend in person or stream the meeting online.
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The water allocation committee is scheduled to begin the day of meetings at 9 a.m. Wednesday, followed by the air quality committee, steering committee, and groundwater and waste management committee. These committees will discuss the rules review process.
The water quality committee will close out the day of committee meetings at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, when members are expected to hear and discuss concepts on minimizing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
The meetings will be streamed online or the public can attend in person in the Archdale building.
The Division of Water Resources director is recommending to the full commission that new groundwater quality standards replace the interim maximum allowable concentrations, or IMACs, established in January 2024 for bentazon, fluometuron, and metolachlor, all herbicides, and boscalid, a fungicide.
Also during the full commission meeting, members are to consider next steps for existing rules going through the periodic review process that address groundwater standards, underground storage tanks, public hearings, and primary recreation standards for Class B waters. State law requires rules be reviewed every 10 years.
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The Environmental Management Commission oversees and adopts rules for several divisions of the Department of Environmental Quality, including the Divisions of Air Quality, Land Resources, Waste Management and Water Resources.
Agendas and meeting materials for all meetings are available on the commission website.
