(430 ILCS 45/5) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 955)
Sec. 5.
Regulations.
The IEMA shall adopt
regulations that specify coordination that
shall take place between
business and local emergency response agencies and other emergency response
entities. The regulations shall, at a minimum:
(1) Identify the categories and geographical jurisdiction of local
emergency response agencies in the State.
(2) Specify minimum requirements and procedures for communicating and
coordinating with local emergency response agencies and other emergency
response entities, including hospitals, police, and fire
authorities.
(3) Prescribe the forms and procedures for providing notices to IEMA
under subsection (d) of Section 4 of this Act.
(4) Establish procedures for notifying
a 24 hour local emergency agency and residents of an affected geographical
area within 48 hours of a significant release being reported to IEMA or any
other reported release that IEMA determines to be of a sufficiently hazardous
nature to warrant notification of a local emergency agency and nearby
residents within the 48 hour time period.
(Source: P.A. 87-168.)
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