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June 19, 2017

VIA EMAIL TO: hQ.foia@eDa.eov

VIA USPS TO:

National Freedom of Information Officer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (2822T)
Washington, DC 20460

RE: FOIA Request for Information Related to GenX, Post-GenX Chemicals,

PFECAs, and Post-PFECA Chemicals

Dear EPA:

I write as environmental counsel for the Cape Fear Public Utility Association,
a municipal utility authority with no commercial interest, and submit this Request
on their behalf. Please send me copies of all records of any kind (paper, electronic,
email or fax transmissions, voice recordings, photographs, and records of any other
type) in the possession or otherwise under the control of EPA, including regional
offices and any other subunits of EPA, related to the following:

1. Chemicals collectively identified by DuPont Company and The Chemours

Company FC, LLC as GenX;
2. Chemicals that are structurally or functionally or otherwise similar to GenX
that result from manufacture, use, processing, treatment, or disposal of GenX
("Post-GenX Chemicals");
3. Perfluoroalkyl ether carboxylic acids (PFECAs);
4. Chemicals that are structurally or functionally or otherwise similar to PFECAs
that result from manufacture, use, processing, treatment, or disposal of
PFECAs ("Post-PFECA Chemicals");
5. Toxicity ofGenX, Post-GenX Chemicals, PFECAs, and Post-PFECA Chemicals
to humans;
 6. Toxicity ofGenX, Post-GenX Chemicals, PFECAs, and Post-PFECA Chemicals
to aquatic organisms;
7. EPA actions related to GenX, Post-GenX Chemicals, PFECAs, and Post-
PFECA Chemicals pursuant to EPA's authority under the Toxic Substances
Control Act, the Clean Water Act, or otherwise; or
8. Compliance or noncompliance with EPA Consent Order and Determinations
Supporting Consent Order involving Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
Regulation of New Chemical Substances Pending Development of Information,
In the Matter ofDuPont Company Premanufacture Notice Numbers P-08-508
and P-08-509 (January 28, 2009).

Please interpret this request to be as broad and comprehensive as is allowed

under the Freedom of Information Act.

We agree in advance to pay the reasonable costs of EPA's response to this

request up to a maximum of $1,000.00. IfEPA anticipates that the costs will exceed
$1,000.00, please contact Randy Tinsley at (336) 373-8850.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Sincerely,

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V. Randall Tinsley
rtinsley@brookspierce.com
(336) 271-3180