Public Act 103-1038
 
SB3716 EnrolledLRB103 37502 MXP 67625 b

    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act is amended
by changing Section 14a as follows:
 
    (615 ILCS 5/14a)  (from Ch. 19, par. 61a)
    Sec. 14a. It is the express intention of this legislation
that close cooperation shall exist between the Pollution
Control Board, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the
Department of Natural Resources and that every resource of
State government shall be applied to the proper preservation
and utilization of the waters of Lake Michigan.
    The Environmental Protection Agency shall work in close
cooperation with the City of Chicago and other affected units
of government to: (1) terminate discharge of pollutional waste
materials to Lake Michigan from vessels in both intra-state
and inter-state navigation, and (2) abate domestic,
industrial, and other pollution to assure that Lake Michigan
beaches in Illinois are suitable for full body contact sports,
meeting criteria of the Pollution Control Board.
    The Environmental Protection Agency shall regularly
monitor conduct water quality from nearshores, harbors, and
public water supply intakes in Lake Michigan and provide an
executive summary biennially on conditions of the water
quality in Lake Michigan and lake bed surveys to evaluate the
ecology and the quality of water in Lake Michigan. Results of
such surveys shall be made available, without charge, to all
interested persons and agencies. It shall be the
responsibility of the Director of the Environmental Protection
Agency to report biennially or at such other times as the
Governor shall direct; such report shall provide hydrologic,
biologic, and chemical data together with recommendations to
the Governor and members of the General Assembly.
    The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly
shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report as required
by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly Organization Act, and
filing such additional copies with the State Government Report
Distribution Center for the General Assembly as is required
under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of the State Library Act.
    In meeting the requirements of this Act, the Pollution
Control Board, Environmental Protection Agency and Department
of Natural Resources are authorized to be in direct contact
with individuals, municipalities, public and private
corporations and other organizations which are or may be
contributing to the discharge of pollution to Lake Michigan.
(Source: P.A. 100-1148, eff. 12-10-18.)