Rep. Thomas Holbrook
Filed: 4/7/2005
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 667
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 667, AS AMENDED, by | ||||||
| 3 | replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | ||||||
| 4 | following:
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| 5 | "Section 5. The Illinois Groundwater Protection Act is | ||||||
| 6 | amended by changing Section 9.1 as follows:
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| 7 | (415 ILCS 55/9.1)
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| 8 | Sec. 9.1. Notification of actual or potential | ||||||
| 9 | contamination.
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| 10 | (a) Whenever the
Agency identifies any contaminant
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| 11 | volatile organic compound in excess of the Board's
Groundwater | ||||||
| 12 | Quality Standards or the Safe Drinking Water Act maximum
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| 13 | contaminant
level while performing its obligations under | ||||||
| 14 | Section 7 of this Act, Section
13.1 of the Environmental | ||||||
| 15 | Protection Act, or the federal Safe Drinking
Water Act, the | ||||||
| 16 | Agency shall notify the Department, unless notification has
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| 17 | already been provided, and the unit of local government | ||||||
| 18 | affected.
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| 19 | (b) Within 60 days of receipt of notice provided for in | ||||||
| 20 | subsection (a) of
this
Section,
the Department, or the | ||||||
| 21 | Department in coordination with the delegated county
health | ||||||
| 22 | department, shall provide notice to the public identifying the
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| 23 | contaminants of concern. The notice shall be provided by means | ||||||
| 24 | of
electronic or
print media and must be designed to inform the | ||||||
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| 1 | owner of any private water
system,
semi-private water system, | ||||||
| 2 | or non-community public water system within an area
potentially | ||||||
| 3 | affected by the identified contamination of the need for the | ||||||
| 4 | system
owner to test the system for possible contamination. The | ||||||
| 5 | notice shall
appear
in the media for 3 consecutive weeks.
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| 6 | (c) A unit of local government shall take any action that | ||||||
| 7 | it deems
appropriate, such as informing any homeowner who | ||||||
| 8 | potentially could be adversely
affected, within
a reasonable | ||||||
| 9 | time after notification by the Agency under subsection (a) of | ||||||
| 10 | this
Section.
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| 11 | (Source: P.A. 92-652, eff. 7-11-02.)".
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