Bill Text: IL SB1840 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that in counties with a population of more than 100,000 and less than 150,000, an owner or operator of a solid waste disposal site, clean construction or demolition debris fill operation, waste transfer station, recycling center, or other similar landfill site shall conduct and pay for semiannual water well testing for private well owners in a 5-mile radius around the site. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1840 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB1840-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB1840 Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Sue Rezin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 5/13.2a new
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that in counties with a population of more than 100,000 and less than 150,000, an owner or operator of a solid waste disposal site, clean construction or demolition debris fill operation, waste transfer station, recycling center, or other similar landfill site shall conduct and pay for semiannual water well testing for private well owners in a 5-mile radius around the site. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Environmental Protection Act is amended by
adding Section 13.2a as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/13.2a new)
Sec. 13.2a. Private water well testing. In counties with a
population of more than 100,000 and less than 150,000, an owner
or operator of a solid waste disposal site, clean construction
or demolition debris fill operation, waste transfer station,
recycling center, or other similar landfill site shall conduct
and pay for semiannual water well testing for private well
owners in a 5-mile radius around the site.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.