Q&A
Process for reauthorizing the Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD) in 2027
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Council Member Gennaro inquires about the steps being taken for the reauthorization of the Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD) in 2027. Commissioner Aggarwala explains that the process began about a year and a half ago with a strategic review of long-term risks to the FAD. The DEP has been in ongoing discussions with the Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
- DEP started preparing for FAD reauthorization about 18 months ago
- A strategic review identified long-term risks to the FAD, including climate change and changing landscape
- DEP has been in ongoing discussions with DOH and DEC about the future of the FAD
- The agency also organized a research symposium with officials from other cities with filtration avoidance determinations
James F. Gennaro
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Great.
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Because once upon a time, that was yeah.
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That was a lot of action about that.
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And so so the new fad would be reauthorized in 2027, I think you said.
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Right?
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And so what steps are going on right now with DOH and other regulators because there's like a a run up to the reauthorization of the fat of these regular meetings, does it include just, you know, DEP And State Health, or are there other actors that are part of that part of that process.
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I'm just trying to get a handle on Yeah.
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On on how the process works.
Rohit T Aggarwala
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Sure.
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Well, I'll I'll I'll ask both Dave and and Shiloh to to say more specifically about the tasks they are undertaking.
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But Basically, we started thinking about this about a year and a half ago.
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And as part of a strategic review of the agency, we we took a look at the long term risks facing the FAD, which, of course, Dave and his colleagues at BWS had been seeing in the data in the in the numbers, some of our our episodes in the past and the aftermath of extreme storms and things like that.
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We actually gosh.
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When was it?
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It was last year, I think, that we presented to DEC.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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So, we actually took once we had once we had coalesced some of our findings about this issue of water quality standards, climate change, and the changing landscape, meaning that the next fad would have to be different.
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We we took that too.
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We first get data did a joint presentation of our thinking to the Department of Health And DEC.
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They were both involved.
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We've had a number of conversations at the staff level.
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With them over time, I also presented that same information to some members of the advocacy world, including, I think, Eric, at NRDC, who's here.
James F. Gennaro
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I was actually gonna I was actually gonna you know, that was gonna be my next question.
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Yeah.
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Because when we first did this, there was, you know, the environmental coalition or, like, whatever they call themselves that were very active in trying to create common cause and move this forward.
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So Right.
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And so is that formalized or is
