Exhibit B - Notice

TO:    All Active Public Water Systems in the United States of America that have one or more Impacted Water Sources as of Settlement DATE; and all Active Public Water Systems in the United States that do not have one or more Impacted Water Sources as of Settlement DATE and (i) are required to test for certain PFAS under UCMR-5, or (ii) serve more than 3,300 people.

    All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Settlement Agreement, available for review at www.PFASWaterSettlement.com.

The purpose of this Notice is (i) to advise you of a proposed settlement (referred to as the “Settlement”) that has been reached with the defendant, 3M Company (“3M” or “Defendant”), in the above-captioned lawsuit (the “Action”) pending in the multi-district litigation in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (the “Court”); (ii) to summarize your rights in connection with the Settlement; and (iii) to inform you of a Court hearing to consider whether to grant final approval of the Settlement, to be held on DATE at TIME, before the Honorable Richard M. Gergel, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, located at 85 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401.

Class Representatives are Public Water Systems that have filed actions against 3M and other defendants, which actions are currently pending in the above-referenced multi-district litigation (“MDL”).

Class Representatives have alleged that they have suffered harm resulting from the presence of PFAS in Drinking Water and/or the need to monitor for the presence of PFAS in Drinking Water, and that 3M is liable for damages and other forms of relief to compensate for such harm and costs.

In addition to the MDL, certain other cases asserting Released Claims are pending against 3M (collectively with the MDL, the “Litigation”).

There are numerous defendants in addition to 3M in the MDL and the cases that comprise the Litigation. Those other defendants are not part of this Settlement Agreement. The Class Representatives and Settlement Class Members will remain able to seek separate and additional PFAS-related recoveries from those other defendants in addition to the Settlement Amount here.

3M denies the allegations in the Litigation and all other allegations relating to the Released Claims; denies that it has any liability to Class Representatives, the Settlement Class, or any Settlement Class Member for any Claim of any kind; and would assert a number of legal and factual defenses against such Claims if they were litigated to conclusion (including against certification of any purported class for litigation purposes).

This Notice should not be understood as an expression of any opinion by the Court as to the merits of the Class Representatives’ Claims or the Defendant’s defenses.

The Class Representatives and 3M have entered into the Settlement Agreement to resolve Claims relating to PFAS contamination of Drinking Water in Public Water Systems. The Court has preliminarily approved the Settlement Agreement as fair, reasonable, and adequate. The Court will hold a Final Fairness Hearing, as described below, to consider whether to grant final approval of the Settlement.

All Active Public Water Systems in the United States of America that have one or more Impacted Water Sources as of the Settlement DATE.

Exhibits E and F to the Settlement Agreement, available for review at www.PFASWaterSettlement.com, list all Eligible Claimants known to Interim Class Counsel and 3M’s Counsel as of the Settlement Date. Not all Public Water Systems are potential Settlement Class Members; specifically excluded from the Settlement Class are:

i.    Non-Transient Non-Community Water Systems serving 3,300 or fewer people;

ii.    Transient Non-Community Water Systems of any size;

iii.    The Public Water Systems listed in Exhibit G to the Settlement Agreement, which are associated with a specific PFAS-manufacturing facility owned by 3M;

iv.    Any Public Water System that is owned by a state government, is listed in SDWIS as having as its sole “Owner Type” a “State government” (as set forth in Exhibit H to the Settlement Agreement), and lacks independent authority to sue and be sued;

v.    Any Public Water System that is owned by the federal government, is listed in SDWIS as having as its sole “Owner Type” the “Federal government” (as set forth in Exhibit I to the Settlement Agreement), and lacks independent authority to sue and be sued;

vi.    The Public Water Systems that are listed in Exhibit J to the Settlement Agreement and have previously settled their PFAS-related Claims against 3M; and

vii.    Any privately owned well that provides water only to its owner’s (or its owner’s tenant’s) individual household and any other system for the provision of water for human consumption that is not a Public Water System.

An Eligible Claimant must submit a timely notice if it believes it has been erroneously listed in any of the above-referenced Exhibits.

Per the Settlement Agreement, “Public Water System” means a system for the provision to the public of water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances,

if such system has at least fifteen (15) service connections or regularly serves an average of at least twenty-five (25) individuals daily at least sixty (60) days out of the year, consistent with the use of that term in the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300f(4)(A), and 40 C.F.R. Part 141. The term “Public Water System” includes (i) any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under control of the operator of such system and used primarily in connection with such system, and (ii) any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under such control which are used primarily in connection with such system. Solely for purposes of the Settlement Agreement, the term “Public Water System” refers to a Community Water System of any size or a Non-Transient Non-Community Water System that serves more than 3,300 people, according to SDWIS; or any Person (but not any financing or lending institution) that has legal authority or responsibility (by statute, regulation, other law, or contract) to fund or incur financial obligations for the design, engineering, installation, operation, or maintenance of any facility or equipment that treats, filters, remediates, or manages water that has entered or may enter Drinking Water or any Public Water System; but does not refer to a Non-Transient Non-Community Water System that serves 3,300 or fewer people, according to SDWIS, or to a Transient Non-Community Water System of any size. It is the intention of the Settlement Agreement that the definition of “Public Water System” be as broad, expansive, and inclusive as possible.

Non-Transient Non-Community Water System means a Public Water System that is not a Community Water System and that regularly serves at least twenty-five (25) of the same persons over six (6) months per year, consistent with the use of that term in 40 C.F.R. Part 141.

Transient Non-Community Water System means a Public Water System that is not a Community Water System and that does not regularly serve at least twenty-five (25) of the same persons over six (6) months per year, consistent with the use of that term in 40 C.F.R. Part 141.

SDWIS means the U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System Federal Reporting Services system, as of [the Settlement Date], 2023.

The key terms of the proposed Settlement are as follows.

    These Claims Forms will be available online at the Settlement website and can be submitted to the Claims Administrator electronically or on paper. The Claims Forms will vary depending on the applicable Settlement Class membership category (Phase One or Phase Two) and on the specific fund or funds from which compensation is sought.

    The Claims Administrator will review each Claims Form, verify the completeness of the data it contains, and follow up as appropriate, including to notify Settlement Class Members of the need to cure deficiencies in their submission(s), if any. Based on the data in the Claims Forms, the Claims Administrator will then confirm Settlement Class membership

and category and determine the amount each Settlement Class Member is owed from each fund from which the Settlement Class Member seeks compensation. Should any portion of the Settlement Amount remain following the completion of the Claims Forms process, it will be distributed to Qualifying Class Members on a pro rata basis as explained in the Settlement Agreement and Allocation Procedures. None of any such remaining Settlement Amount shall be returned to 3M.

The Release, as set forth in Section 11 of the Settlement Agreement, will be effective as to every Settlement Class Member that has not excluded itself from the Settlement Class, regardless of whether or not that Settlement Class Member files a Claims Form or receives any distribution from the Settlement.

Class Counsel will make their request in a motion to be filed with the Court not less than twenty (20) calendar days before Objections are due pursuant to Paragraphs 8.4, 8.7, and 8.8 of the Settlement Agreement. After the motion is filed, copies will be available from Class Counsel, the Settlement website (www.PFASWaterSettlement.com), or the Court docket for City of Camden, et al., v. 3M Company, No. 2:23-cv-XXXX-RMG.

Any attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses approved by the Court will be paid from the Settlement Amount.

Any Water System tested on or before the Settlement DATE, using a state- or federal-approved methodology and found to contain a Measurable Concentration of PFAS, does not need to be tested again for purposes of Baseline Testing.

Any Water Source tested prior to January 1, 2019, that did not result in a Measurable Concentration of PFAS, must retest to meet Baseline Testing requirements. If a Water Source tested January 1, 2019, or later, and it did not result in a Measurable Concentration of PFAS, no further testing of that Water Source is required.

Baseline Testing requires the following:

Each Phase One Qualifying Class Member will verify in its Claims Form that it has tested all its Water Sources for PFAS. Failure to test and submit Qualifying Test Results for Water Sources will disqualify Water Sources from consideration for present and future payments.

Each Phase Two Qualifying Class Member must perform Baseline Testing. Baseline Testing requires each Phase Two Qualifying Class Member to test each of its Water Sources for PFAS; request from the laboratory that performs the analyses all analytical results, including the actual numeric values of all analytical results; and submit or cause the testing laboratory to submit detailed PFAS test results to the Claims Administrator on a Claims Form within forty-five (45) calendar days after receiving the test results, absent what the Claims Administrator deems in writing to be an extraordinary circumstance, and no later than July 1, 2026.

Each Phase Two Qualifying Class Member will verify in its Claims Form that it has tested all its Water Sources for PFAS. Failure to test and submit Qualifying Test Results for Water Sources will disqualify Water Sources from consideration for present and future payments.

A Phase Two Qualifying Class Member that does not fully and timely satisfy these Phase Two Baseline Testing requirements shall be presumed to lack any Impacted Water Source and thus may be declared by the Claims Administrator to be ineligible to receive further payment from Phase Two.

Baseline Testing may be performed by any laboratory accredited or certified by a state government or federal regulatory agency for PFAS analysis that uses any state or federal agency-approved or -validated PFAS analytical method that is consistent with (or stricter) than the requirements of UCMR-5.

Class Counsel has arranged for discounted testing with the following laboratory to assist Class Members with Baseline Testing. The listed laboratory will forward the test results to the Claims Administrator. There is no requirement to use the listed laboratory.

    Eurofins

The Litigation Bump applies to all Qualifying Class Members that have a pending lawsuit filed in a state or federal court asserting Claims against 3M related to alleged PFAS contamination of Drinking Water in Public Water Systems. The Bellwether Bump applies to the Impacted Water Sources that are owned or operated by Qualifying Class Members that served as one of the ten Public Water Provider Bellwether Plaintiffs. The Regulatory Bump will apply when an Impacted Water Source exceeds (i) an applicable state Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for a PFAS analyte or (ii) the proposed federal MCL for a PFAS analyte. The Claims Administrator will consider all Proposed Federal PFAS MCL and existing state MCLs for PFAS chemicals existing on the date the Court issues a Final Approval to determine if an Impacted Water Source has ever exceeded any applicable standard during the Class Period.

After the Claims Administrator applies the appropriate bumps to each Impacted Water Source, the Claims Administrator will use the new Adjusted Base Scores to determine how much of the Settlement Amount each Impacted Water Source will receive.

The Court has appointed the attorneys from the following law firms to act as counsel for the Class (referred to as “Class Counsel” or “Plaintiffs’ Counsel”) for purposes of the proposed Settlement:

Class Counsel, Class Representatives, and 3M have engaged in extensive, arm’s-length negotiations, including negotiations facilitated by a Court-appointed mediator, and have, subject to the Preliminary and Final Approval of the Court, reached an agreement to settle and release all Released Claims, on the terms and conditions set forth in the Settlement Agreement.

Class Representatives and Class Counsel have concluded, after a thorough investigation and after carefully considering the relevant circumstances, including the Claims asserted, the legal and factual defenses thereto, the applicable law, the burdens, risks, uncertainties, and expense of litigation, as well as the fair, cost-effective, and assured method of resolving the Claims, that it would be in the best interests of Settlement Class Members to participate in the Settlement in order to avoid the uncertainties of litigation and to ensure that the benefits reflected herein are obtained for Settlement Class Members. Further, Class Representatives and Class Counsel consider the Settlement set forth herein to be fair, reasonable, and adequate and in the best interests of Settlement Class Members.

3M, while continuing to deny any violation, wrongdoing, or liability with respect to any and all Claims asserted in the Litigation and all Released Claims, either on its part or on the part of any of the Released Parties, entered into the Settlement Agreement to avoid the expense, inconvenience, and distraction of further litigation.

YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE SETTLEMENT. You must file a Claims Form to be eligible to receive a payment under the Settlement Agreement. You can submit your Claims Form online at www.PFASWaterSettlement.com, or you can download, complete, and mail your Claims Form to the Claims Administrator at AFFF Public Water System Claims, PO Box

4466, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70821. The deadline to submit a Claims Form is DEADLINE DATE.

Regardless of whether you file a Claims Form or receive any distribution under the Settlement, unless you timely opt out as described below, you will be bound by the Settlement and any judgment or other final disposition related to the Settlement, including the Release set forth in the Settlement Agreement, and will be precluded from pursuing Claims against 3M separately if those Claims are within the scope of the Release.

YOU CAN OPT OUT OF THE SETTLEMENT. If you do not wish to be a Settlement Class Member, and do not want to participate in the Settlement and receive funds from the Settlement, you may exclude yourself from the Settlement Class by completing and mailing a notice of intention to opt-out (referred to as a “Request for Exclusion” or an “Opt-Out”). Anyone within the Settlement Class that wishes to opt out of the Settlement Class and Settlement must file a written and signed statement entitled “Request for Exclusion” with the Notice Administrator, provide service in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5, and comply with all Opt-Out provisions of the Settlement Agreement.

To be treated as valid, the Request for Exclusion must be served on the Notice Administrator, the Special Master, the Claims Administrator, Counsel for 3M, and Class Counsel at the addresses below.

The Request for Exclusion must be received by the Notice Administrator no later than DEADLINE.

The Request for Exclusion must certify, under penalty of perjury in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 1746, that the filer has been legally authorized to exclude the Person from the Settlement and must provide:

    an affidavit or other proof of the Settlement Class Member’s standing;

    the filer’s name, address, telephone, facsimile number and email address (if available); and

    the name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address (if available) of the Person whose exclusion is requested.

Any Person that submits a timely and valid Request for Exclusion shall not (i) be bound by any orders or judgments effecting the Settlement; (ii) be entitled to any of the relief or other benefits provided under the Settlement Agreement; (iii) gain any rights by virtue of the Settlement Agreement; or (iv) be entitled to submit an Objection.

    If you own or operate more than one Public Water System and are authorized to determine whether to submit Requests for Exclusion on those Public Water Systems’ behalf, you may submit a Request for Exclusion on behalf of some of those Public Water Systems but not the other(s). You must submit a Request for an Exclusion on behalf of each such Public Water System that you wish to opt out of the Settlement Class. Any Public Water System that is not specifically identified in a Request for Exclusion will remain in the Settlement Class.

Any Settlement Class Member that does not submit a timely and valid Request for Exclusion submits to the jurisdiction of the Court and, unless the Settlement Class Member submits an Objection that complies with the provisions of the Settlement Agreement, shall waive and forfeit any and all objections the Settlement Class Member may have asserted.

YOU CAN OBJECT OR TAKE OTHER ACTIONS. Any Settlement Class Member who has not successfully excluded itself (“opted out”) may object to the Settlement. Any Settlement Class Member that wishes to object to the Settlement or to an award of fees or expenses to Class Counsel must file a written and signed statement designated “Objection” with the Clerk of the Court, provide service on 3M’s Counsel and Class Counsel at the addresses below in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5, and comply with all Objections provisions of the Settlement Agreement. Objections submitted by any Settlement Class Member to incorrect locations shall not be valid.

All Objections must certify, under penalty of perjury in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 1746, that the filer has been legally authorized to object on behalf of the Settlement Class Member and must provide:

        The deadline to submit an Objection is DEADLINE DATE.

    Settlement Class Members may object either on their own or through any attorney hired at their own expense. If a Settlement Class Member is represented by counsel, the attorney must file a notice of appearance with the Clerk of Court no later than the date ordered by the Court for the filing of Objections and serve such notice in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5 within the same time period.

    Any Settlement Class Member that fully complies with the provisions for objecting may, at the Court’s discretion, appear at the Final Fairness Hearing to object to the Settlement or to the award of fees and costs to Class Counsel. Any Settlement Class Member that fails to comply with the provisions of the Settlement Agreement for objecting shall waive and forfeit any and all objections the Settlement Class Member may have asserted.

Before deciding whether to grant final approval to the Settlement, the Court will hold the Final Fairness Hearing in Courtroom XX of the U.S. Courthouse, 85 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401, on DATE. At that time, the Court will determine, among other things, (i) whether the Settlement should be granted final approval as fair, reasonable, and adequate, (ii) whether the Action should be dismissed with prejudice pursuant to the terms of the Settlement Agreement, (iii) whether the Settlement Class should be conclusively certified for settlement purposes only, (iv) whether Settlement Class Members should be bound by the Release set forth in the Settlement Agreement, (v) the amount of attorneys’ fees and costs to be awarded to Class Counsel, if any, and (vi) the amount of the award to be made to the Class Representatives for their services, if any. The Final Fairness Hearing may be postponed, adjourned, or continued by Order of the Court without further notice to the Class.

The descriptions of the Action, the Settlement, and the Settlement Agreement in this Notice are only a general summary. In the event of a conflict between this Notice and the Settlement Agreement, the terms of the Settlement Agreement control. All papers filed in this case, including the full Settlement Agreement, are available for you to inspect and copy (at your cost) at the office of the Clerk of Court, the Settlement website, or online through the Court’s electronic docket. A copy of the Settlement Agreement may also be obtained from Class Counsel by contacting them at the addresses or telephone numbers set forth above. Any questions concerning this Notice, the Settlement Agreement, or the Settlement may be directed

to Class Counsel. You may also seek the advice and counsel of your own attorney, at your own expense, if you desire.

In sending any document to the Notice Administrator, Claims Administrator, the Court, Class Counsel, or 3M’s Counsel, you must include the following case name and identifying number on any documents and on the outside of the envelope:

In re: Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2:18-mn-2873 (D.S.C.), this document relates to: [Class Complaint caption]

You must also include your full name, address, email address, and a telephone number where you can be reached.