Full Text of SB0727 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning health. | 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly: | 4 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Safe | 5 | | Public Drinking Water Act. | 6 | | Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | 7 | | "Agency" means the Environmental Protection Agency. | 8 | | "Board" means the Pollution Control Board. | 9 | | "MCL" means maximum contaminant level, or the legal | 10 | | threshold limit on the amount of a substance that is allowed in | 11 | | public water systems. | 12 | | "Perfluoroalkyl substance or polyfluoroalkyl substance" or | 13 | | "PFAS" means a class of fluorinated organic chemicals | 14 | | containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom. | 15 | | Section 10. Purpose. It is the goal of the State of | 16 | | Illinois to protect residents from harmful toxins in drinking | 17 | | water. Accordingly, this Act directs the Agency to conduct | 18 | | statewide sampling of certain community water supplies for the | 19 | | presence of 1,4-Dioxane. | 20 | | Section 15. Rulemaking; identical in substance. Within one | 21 | | year of the promulgation by the United States Environmental |
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| 1 | | Protection Agency of regulations or amendments establishing | 2 | | MCLs for any PFAS, the Board shall adopt rules that are | 3 | | identical in substance to such federal regulations or | 4 | | amendments, thereby establishing such PFAS MCLs for Illinois' | 5 | | community water supplies. | 6 | | Section 20. Sampling for 1,4-Dioxane. | 7 | | (a) The Agency shall, by June 30, 2026, conduct sampling | 8 | | of the Illinois community water supplies previously sampled by | 9 | | the Agency for 1,4-Dioxane from the years 2013 through 2015. | 10 | | (b) If the results of such sampling detect drinking water | 11 | | levels of 1,4-Dioxane in excess of the United States | 12 | | Environmental Protection Agency Health Reference Level of 35 | 13 | | micrograms per liter, the Agency shall, within 2 years after | 14 | | June 30, 2026, take all actions needed to obtain the expertise | 15 | | necessary to propose rules that will establish a State-only | 16 | | MCL for 1,4-Dioxane. | 17 | | (c) By no later than June 30, 2029, the Agency shall | 18 | | propose, and, by no later than June 30, 2030, the Board shall | 19 | | adopt, amendments to the Board rules to establish a State-only | 20 | | MCL for 1,4-Dioxane. | 21 | | (d) The Agency shall, at least annually, convene a | 22 | | stakeholder group to review a subset of chemicals that are | 23 | | likely to pose a substantial health hazard to residents of the | 24 | | State, for the purpose of proposing or revising a State-only | 25 | | MCL for those chemicals. |
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