(615 ILCS 50/6) (from Ch. 19, par. 120.4)
Sec. 6.
Allocation of water
to be diverted from the Lake Michigan watershed
shall be made by the Department only after notice and
hearing except where a water shortage emergency exists, threatening the
public health, safety or welfare. Where a water shortage emergency exists,
the Department may issue and enter an order for an emergency allocation,
but shall, within 60 days thereafter, give notice and conduct a hearing
regarding such emergency allocation. The effectiveness of an emergency
allocation order shall be immediate and shall last until the Department
has issued and entered an order after a hearing regarding the emergency allocation.
Conflicting claims relative to the application for allocation
shall be made a matter of record at a hearing together with
reconciliation by the Department. No allocation shall be in force or
take effect until issuance and entry of an order by the Department.
Notice of any hearing to be held by the Department
shall be by
publication not less than twice in a newspaper of general circulation in
the immediate as well as the remote area which may be affected by such
diversion; such publications shall be no longer than one week apart and
the hearing shall be held within ten days following date of last
publication. In addition, actual notice shall be given to the counties
of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will, and to the City of
Chicago, and to the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago.
(Source: P.A. 83-694.)
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