Rep. Thomas Holbrook
Filed: 4/7/2005
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 667 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 667, AS AMENDED, by 
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replacing everything after the enacting clause with the 
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following:

 
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    "Section 5. The Illinois Groundwater Protection Act is 
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amended  by changing Section 9.1 as follows:
 



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    (415 ILCS 55/9.1)



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    Sec. 9.1. Notification of actual or potential 
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contamination. 

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    (a) Whenever the
Agency identifies any contaminant

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volatile organic compound in excess of the Board's
Groundwater 
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Quality Standards or the Safe Drinking Water Act maximum

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contaminant
level while performing its obligations under 
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Section 7 of this Act, Section
13.1 of the Environmental 
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Protection Act, or the federal Safe Drinking
Water Act, the 
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Agency shall notify the Department, unless notification has

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already been provided, and the unit of local government 
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affected.

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    (b) Within 60 days of receipt of notice provided for in 
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subsection (a) of
this
Section,
the Department, or the 
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Department in coordination with the delegated county
health 
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department, shall provide notice to the public identifying the

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contaminants of concern.  The notice shall be provided by means 
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of
electronic or
print media and must be designed to inform the 
 


 






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owner of any private water
system,
semi-private water system, 
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or non-community public water system within an area
potentially 
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affected by the identified contamination of the need for the 
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system
owner to test the system for possible contamination.  The 
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notice shall
appear
in the media for 3 consecutive weeks.

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    (c) A unit of local government shall take any action that 
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it deems
appropriate, such as informing any homeowner who 
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potentially could be adversely
affected, within
a reasonable 
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time after notification by the Agency under subsection (a) of 
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this
Section.

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(Source: P.A. 92-652, eff. 7-11-02.)".