Public Act 102-0960
 
HB4988 EnrolledLRB102 25884 NLB 35241 b


  
    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 19.11 as follows:
 
    (415 ILCS 5/19.11 new)
    Sec. 19.11. Public water supply disruption; notification.
    (a) In this Section: 
    "Disruption event" means any: 
        (1) change to a disinfection technique, practice, or 
    technology, including each instance of any change in the 
    concentration of any disinfectant in the water of a public 
    water supply that results in residual concentrations of 
    the disinfectant in the water either exceeding 50% or 
    falling below 20% of the monthly average concentration of 
    disinfectant reported to the Agency in a public water 
    distribution entity's most recent monthly submission of 
    Daily Operating Reports;
        (2)   planned or unplanned work on  or damage to a water 
    main;
        (3)    change in a treatment application or source of 
    water that results in an altered finished water quality;
        (4)    event that results in a public water supply's 
    operating pressure falling below 20 PSI; or
        (5)    condition that results in the issuance of a boil 
    water order. 
    "Health care facility" means a facility, hospital, or 
establishment licensed or organized under the Ambulatory 
Surgical Treatment Center Act, the University of Illinois 
Hospital Act, the Hospital Licensing Act, the Nursing Home 
Care Act, the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, or the 
Community Living Facilities Licensing Act. 
    "Health care facility list" means a list enumerating 
health care facilities and their designees that are served by 
a public water supply and maintained by a public water 
distribution entity.
    "Public water distribution entity" means any of the 
following entities that are responsible for the direct 
supervision of a public water supply: a municipality, a 
private corporation, an individual private owner, or a 
regularly organized body governed by a constitution and 
by-laws requiring regular election of officers.
    "Public water supply" has the same meaning as defined in 
Section 3.365.
    "State agencies" means the Illinois Environmental 
Protection Agency and the Illinois Department of Public 
Health.
    "Water supply operator" means any individual trained in 
the treatment
or distribution of water who has practical, 
working knowledge of the chemical,
biological, and physical 
sciences essential to the practical mechanics
of water 
treatment or distribution and who is capable of conducting
and 
maintaining the water treatment or distribution processes of a 
public water supply in a
manner that will provide safe, 
potable water for human consumption. 
    (b) A public water distribution entity, through its 
designated employees or contractors, shall notify its water 
supply operator and all affected health care facilities on the 
public water supply's health care facility list not less than 
14 days before any known, planned, or anticipated disruption 
event. An anticipated disruption event includes for purposes 
of this subsection any disruption event that could or should 
be reasonably anticipated by a public water distribution 
entity.
    (c) A public water distribution entity, through its 
designated employees or contractors, shall notify its water 
supply operator and all affected health care facilities that 
are served by the public water supply and affected by any 
unplanned disruption event in the public water supply's water 
distribution system. The notification required under this 
subsection shall be provided  within 2 hours after the public 
water distribution entity becomes aware of the unplanned 
disruption event.
    (d) A health care facility shall designate an email 
address to receive electronic notifications from the public 
water distribution entity concerning planned or unplanned 
disruption events. The email account shall be accessible to 
the health care facility's designated water management plan 
administrator and other responsible administrative personnel.
    (e) Any planned or unplanned disruption event notification 
sent to a health care facility under this Section shall also be 
sent to the State agencies via email to the email addresses 
designated by
the State agencies within 5 business days.  The 
State agencies shall establish, maintain, and retain a list of 
notifications received pursuant to this subsection.
    The notice required under this Section shall include, but 
shall not be limited to, the following:
        (1) a detailed description of the disruption event;
        (2) the date, time, and location of the disruption 
    event; 
        (3) the expected time needed to resolve the disruption 
    event; and 
        (4)    a list of the health care facilities notified by 
    the public
water distribution entity.
    Beginning one year after the effective date of this 
amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, the State 
agencies shall make
available upon request a list of 
disruption events, in an electronic format, sorted by the year 
and month of each occurrence. 
 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.