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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, According to both the United States Environmental | ||||||
| 3 | Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and | ||||||
| 4 | Prevention, there is no safe level of exposure to lead; and | ||||||
| 5 | WHEREAS, Illinois has a large number of older homes and | ||||||
| 6 | more lead service lines than any other state; and | ||||||
| 7 | WHEREAS, More than 170 public water systems in Illinois | ||||||
| 8 | serving approximately 700,000 people have exceeded federal | ||||||
| 9 | lead standards during at least one year since 2004, and 9 water | ||||||
| 10 | systems in the Chicago area have exceeded federal lead | ||||||
| 11 | standards at least twice since 2004, including municipalities | ||||||
| 12 | in Cook, DuPage, and Lake Counties; and | ||||||
| 13 | WHEREAS, One in every 10 Illinois water systems has found | ||||||
| 14 | lead levels exceeding 40 parts per billion - a level the EPA | ||||||
| 15 | has noted poses an imminent and substantial threat to the | ||||||
| 16 | health of children and pregnant women - in at least one home | ||||||
| 17 | between 2011 and 2015; and | ||||||
| 18 | WHEREAS, Illinois water systems that have reported lead | ||||||
| 19 | levels higher than 40 parts per billion since 2011 include, but | ||||||
| 20 | are not limited to, the University of Illinois at | ||||||
| 21 | Urbana-Champaign, Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, | ||||||
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| 1 | Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, the Stateville | ||||||
| 2 | Correction Center near Joliet, and the Illinois Youth Center | ||||||
| 3 | near St. Charles; therefore, be it | ||||||
| 4 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 5 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
| 6 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the Illinois Environmental | ||||||
| 7 | Protection Agency, in coordination with the Department of | ||||||
| 8 | Public Health, shall conduct a study of lead in Illinois | ||||||
| 9 | drinking water describing the chemical and human health impacts | ||||||
| 10 | of lead in Illinois piped water supplies; and be it further
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| 11 | RESOLVED, That in conducting this study the Agency shall | ||||||
| 12 | monitor actual lead levels, measured in parts per billion, in a | ||||||
| 13 | wide variety of supplies of Illinois piped water; monitoring | ||||||
| 14 | efforts shall concentrate on, but shall not be limited to, | ||||||
| 15 | Illinois public water systems where lead test results have | ||||||
| 16 | exceeded U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lead standards | ||||||
| 17 | in at least one year since 2004; and be it further
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| 18 | RESOLVED, That each component of this study shall delineate | ||||||
| 19 | the number of samples that made up each data set, and shall | ||||||
| 20 | list the municipality or other unit of local government that | ||||||
| 21 | describes the water system from which each sample was taken; | ||||||
| 22 | and be it further | ||||||
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| 1 | RESOLVED, That all results from this lead monitoring shall | ||||||
| 2 | be public documents and shall be published online on the | ||||||
| 3 | Agency's official website on a weekly basis; and be it further | ||||||
| 4 | RESOLVED, That the Agency shall deliver a preliminary | ||||||
| 5 | report, listing the water systems where testing is taking place | ||||||
| 6 | to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, | ||||||
| 7 | the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the House | ||||||
| 8 | of Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the Senate by | ||||||
| 9 | September 1, 2016; the report shall be published online on the | ||||||
| 10 | Agency's official website no later than September 1, 2016; and | ||||||
| 11 | be it further | ||||||
| 12 | RESOLVED, That the Agency shall deliver a final report, | ||||||
| 13 | summarizing its test results and making policy recommendations | ||||||
| 14 | to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, | ||||||
| 15 | the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the House | ||||||
| 16 | of Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the Senate by | ||||||
| 17 | January 1, 2017; the report shall be published online on the | ||||||
| 18 | Agency's official website no later than January 1, 2017; and be | ||||||
| 19 | it further | ||||||
| 20 | RESOLVED, That the study shall begin immediately upon | ||||||
| 21 | adoption of this resolution.
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