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1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act is | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | amended by changing Sections 3 and 4 as follows:
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6 | (225 ILCS 225/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.303)
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7 | Sec. 3. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | requires: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | (1) "Domestic Sewage" means waste water derived | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | principally from
dwellings, business or office buildings, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | institutions, food service
establishments, and similar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | facilities.
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13 | (2) "Director" means Director of the Illinois Department of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Public Health.
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15 | (3) "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Health.
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17 | (4) "Human Wastes" means undigested food and by-products of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | metabolism
which are passed out of the human body.
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19 | (5) "Person" means any individual, group of individuals, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | association,
trust, partnership, corporation, person doing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | business under an assumed
name, the State of Illinois or any | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Department thereof, or any other entity.
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23 | (6) "Population Equivalent" means an average waste loading |
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1 | equivalent to
that produced by one person which is defined as | ||||||
2 | 100 gallons per day.
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3 | (7) "Private Sewage Disposal System" means any sewage | ||||||
4 | handling or
treatment facility receiving domestic sewage from | ||||||
5 | less than 15 people or
population equivalent and having a | ||||||
6 | ground surface discharge or any sewage
handling or treatment | ||||||
7 | facility receiving domestic sewage and having no
ground surface | ||||||
8 | discharge.
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9 | (8) "Private Sewage Disposal System Installation | ||||||
10 | Contractor" means
any person constructing, installing, | ||||||
11 | repairing, modifying, or
maintaining private sewage disposal | ||||||
12 | systems.
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13 | (9) "Property Owner" means the person in whose name legal | ||||||
14 | title to the
real estate is recorded.
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15 | (10) "Waste" means either human waste or domestic sewage or | ||||||
16 | both.
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17 | (11) "Private Sewage Disposal System Pumping Contractor" | ||||||
18 | means any
person who cleans or pumps waste from a private | ||||||
19 | sewage disposal system or
hauls or disposes of wastes removed | ||||||
20 | therefrom.
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21 | (12) "Off-Lot Discharging Private Sewage Disposal System" | ||||||
22 | means any private sewage disposal system having a surface | ||||||
23 | discharge that leaves the property or directly enters the | ||||||
24 | navigable waters of the State or surface waters that are | ||||||
25 | tributary to navigable waters of the State.
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26 | (Source: P.A. 84-670 .)
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1 | (225 ILCS 225/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.304)
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2 | Sec. 4. (a) After January 1, 1974, no person or private | ||||||
3 | sewage disposal
system contractor may construct, install, | ||||||
4 | modify, repair, maintain, or
service a private sewage disposal | ||||||
5 | system or transport and dispose of waste
removed therefrom, in | ||||||
6 | such a manner that does not comply with the
requirements of | ||||||
7 | this Act and the private sewage disposal code promulgated
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8 | hereunder by the Department. A person who owns and occupies a | ||||||
9 | single
family dwelling and who constructs, installs, | ||||||
10 | maintains, services or cleans
the private sewage disposal | ||||||
11 | system which serves his single family residence
shall not be | ||||||
12 | required to be licensed under this Act, however, such person
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13 | shall comply with all other provisions of this Act and the | ||||||
14 | private sewage
disposal code promulgated hereunder by the | ||||||
15 | Department.
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16 | Any person who constructs, installs, repairs, modifies, or | ||||||
17 | maintains a
private sewage disposal system, other than a system | ||||||
18 | which serves his own
single family residence, shall be licensed | ||||||
19 | by the Department as a Private
Sewage System Installation | ||||||
20 | Contractor and any person who cleans or pumps
waste from a | ||||||
21 | private sewage disposal system, other than a system which
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22 | serves his own single family residence, or hauls or disposes of | ||||||
23 | wastes
removed therefrom shall be licensed by the Department as | ||||||
24 | a Private Sewage
Disposal System Pumping Contractor in | ||||||
25 | accordance with this Act.
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1 | (b) No new private sewage disposal system shall be | ||||||
2 | installed by any
person until drawings, specifications and | ||||||
3 | other information requested by
the Department are submitted to | ||||||
4 | and reviewed by the Department and found to
comply with the | ||||||
5 | private sewage disposal code, and until approval for the
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6 | installation of such system is issued by the Department.
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7 | (c) The licensing requirements of this Act shall not apply | ||||||
8 | to any
person who cleans or pumps, hauls or disposes of waste | ||||||
9 | from chemical
toilets located in an underground coal mine. This | ||||||
10 | waste shall be (i)
transported to and disposed of at a sewage | ||||||
11 | treatment facility permitted by
the Illinois Environmental | ||||||
12 | Protection Agency and located on the mine
property, or (ii) | ||||||
13 | stored on-site in a sanitary manner pending removal and
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14 | subsequent disposal by a licensed private sewage disposal | ||||||
15 | pumping contractor.
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16 | (d) Every owner of an off-lot discharging private sewage | ||||||
17 | disposal system must file a "Notice of Intent" with the | ||||||
18 | Department to allow coverage of the system under the blanket | ||||||
19 | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit | ||||||
20 | of the State. The owner of any private sewage disposal system | ||||||
21 | that has a surface discharge that does not leave the property | ||||||
22 | or directly enter the navigable waters of the State or surface | ||||||
23 | waters that are tributary to navigable waters of the State is | ||||||
24 | not required to file a Notice of Intent or meet other NPDES | ||||||
25 | permit requirements.
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26 | (Source: P.A. 86-1195.)
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1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
2 | becoming law.
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