Full Text of SB1739 99th General Assembly
SB1739eng 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Nuclear Safety Law of 2004 is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 30 as follows: | 6 | | (20 ILCS 3310/30)
| 7 | | Sec. 30. Powers vested in Environmental Protection Agency. | 8 | | (a) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall | 9 | | exercise, administer, and enforce all rights, powers, and | 10 | | duties vested in the Environmental Protection Agency by | 11 | | paragraphs a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, 1, m, n, o, p, q, | 12 | | and r of Section 4 and by Sections 30 through 45 of the | 13 | | Environmental Protection Act, to the extent that these powers | 14 | | relate to standards of the Pollution Control Board adopted | 15 | | under Section 35 of this Act. The transfer of rights, powers, | 16 | | and duties specified in this Section is limited to the programs | 17 | | transferred by Public Act 81-1516 and this Act and shall not be | 18 | | deemed to abolish or diminish the exercise of those same | 19 | | rights, powers, and duties by the Environmental Protection | 20 | | Agency with respect to programs retained by the Environmental | 21 | | Protection Agency.
| 22 | | (b) Notwithstanding provisions in Sections 4 and 17.7 of | 23 | | the Environmental Protection Act, the Environmental Protection |
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| 1 | | Agency is not required to perform analytical services for | 2 | | community water supplies to determine compliance with | 3 | | contaminant levels for radionuclides as specified in State or | 4 | | federal drinking water regulations.
| 5 | | (c) Community water supplies may request the Illinois | 6 | | Emergency Management Agency to perform analytical services to | 7 | | determine compliance with contaminant levels for radionuclides | 8 | | as specified in State or federal drinking water regulations. | 9 | | The Illinois Emergency Management Agency must adopt rules | 10 | | establishing reasonable fees reflecting the direct and | 11 | | indirect cost of testing community water supply samples. The | 12 | | rules may require a community water supply to commit to | 13 | | participation in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency's | 14 | | testing program. Neither the Illinois Emergency Management | 15 | | Agency nor the Environmental Protection Agency is required to | 16 | | perform analytical services to determine contaminant levels | 17 | | for radionuclides from any community water supply that does not | 18 | | participate in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency's | 19 | | testing program.
| 20 | | Community water supplies that choose not to participate in | 21 | | the Illinois Emergency Management Agency's testing program or | 22 | | do not pay
the fees established by the Illinois Emergency | 23 | | Management Agency shall have the duty to analyze all drinking | 24 | | water samples as required by State or federal safe drinking | 25 | | water regulations to determine radionuclide contaminant | 26 | | levels.
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| 1 | | (Source: P.A. 93-1029, eff. 8-25-04.)
| 2 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 3 | | becoming law.
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