Bill Text: IL HB3264 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Groundwater Protection Act. Provides that, within 60 days after receiving notice from the Environmental Protection Agency that volatile organic compounds have been detected in excess of specified standards, the Department of Natural Resources must post a notice that identifies the contaminants of concern on its Internet website for at least 3 weeks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3264 Detail]

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB3264 Introduced 2/24/2011, by Rep. Naomi D. Jakobsson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 55/9.1
Amends the Illinois Groundwater Protection Act. Provides that, within 60 days after receiving notice from the Environmental Protection Agency that volatile organic compounds have been detected in excess of specified standards, the Department of Natural Resources must post a notice that identifies the contaminants of concern on its Internet website for at least 3 weeks.
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Groundwater Protection Act is
amended by changing Section 9.1 as follows:
(415 ILCS 55/9.1)
Sec. 9.1. Notification of actual or potential
contamination.
(a) Whenever the Agency identifies any volatile organic
compound in excess of the Board's Groundwater Quality Standards
or the Safe Drinking Water Act maximum contaminant level while
performing its obligations under Section 7 of this Act, Section
13.1 of the Environmental Protection Act, or the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act, the Agency shall notify the Department,
unless notification has already been provided, and the unit of
local government affected.
(b) Within 60 days after of receipt of notice provided for
in subsection (a) of this Section, the Department, or the
Department in coordination with the delegated county health
department, shall provide notice to the public identifying the
contaminants of concern. The notice shall be posted on the
Department's Internet website and provided by means of other
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,
or non-community public water system within an area potentially
affected by the identified contamination of the need for the
system owner to test the system for possible contamination. The
notice shall appear in the media for 3 consecutive weeks and
must also appear on the Department's Internet website for not
less than that period of time.
(c) A unit of local government shall take any action that
it deems appropriate, such as informing any homeowner who
potentially could be adversely affected, within a reasonable
time after notification by the Agency under subsection (a) of
this Section.
(Source: P.A. 92-652, eff. 7-11-02.)