96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3830


 
Introduced 2/25/2009, by Rep. Dan Reitz
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














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    Amends the Radon Industry Licensing Act. Provides that persons who perform testing for radon or radon progeny must report the results of that testing to their clients, owners or occupants (under certain circumstances), and the Nuclear Safety Division of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (now, just to clients and (under certain circumstances) owners or occupants). Requires the Agency to report certain radon testing results to  municipalities or counties.
















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    AN ACT concerning safety.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Radon Industry Licensing Act is amended  by 
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changing Section 30 as follows:
 



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    (420 ILCS 44/30)



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    Sec. 30. Reporting of information. Within 45 days after 
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testing for
radon or radon progeny, a
person
performing the 
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testing shall report the results of the testing to his or her 
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client and the Nuclear Safety Division of the Agency. If the 
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results of the testing indicate radon concentrations at or 
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above 4 picocuries per liter (pCi/L) and the testing location 
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is located within a municipality, then the Agency must report 
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the results of that testing to that municipality. If the 
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results of the testing indicate radon concentrations at or 
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above 4 picocuries per liter (pCi/L) and the testing location 
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is not located within a  municipality, then the Agency must 
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report the results of that testing to the county in whose 
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jurisdiction the radon testing was performed.

the
results of 
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the testing. In addition, if the client is not the owner or 
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occupant of the building, a person shall report to the owner or 
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occupant upon request. To the extent that the testing results 
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contain
information pertaining
to the medical condition of an 
 


 






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identified individual or the concentration of radon
or radon 
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progeny in an
identified dwelling, information obtained by the 
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Agency

pursuant to this
Act is exempt from the disclosure 
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requirements of the Freedom of Information
Act, except that the

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Agency shall make the information available to the identified 
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individual or
the owner or occupant on request.

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(Source: P.A. 94-369, eff. 7-29-05.)