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H.R. 7560 116th Congress House

Guaranteeing Equipment Safety for Firefighters Act of 2020

Official title: To require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to conduct a study of personal protective equipment worn by firefighters to deter… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to conduct a study of personal protective equipment worn by firefighters to determine the prevalence and concentration of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 9, 2020 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

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Guaranteeing Equipment Safety for Firefighters Act of 2020

This bill requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to study and report on the contents and composition of certain firefighting equipment.

Such study shall examine perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS, in new and unused personal protective equipment (PPE) worn by firefighters. PFAS are man-made substances that may have adverse human health effects, and which are contained in a variety of PPE. Specifically NIST must study (1) the identity, prevalence, and concentration of PFAS in such PPE; (2) the conditions and extent to which PFAS are released into the environment from the degradation of such PPE from normal use by firefighters; and (3) the relative risk of exposure to PFAS faced by firefighters.

NIST shall issue a solicitation for research proposals to carry out recommendations from its report and award grants to applicants that submit proposals to develop safe alternatives to PFAS in firefighters' PPE.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7560: Guaranteeing Equipment Safety for Firefighters Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7560/
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"H.R. 7560: Guaranteeing Equipment Safety for Firefighters Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-7560/.
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