Public Act 103-1000
 
SB3448 EnrolledLRB103 38471 BDA 68607 b

    AN ACT concerning safety.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Emergency Planning and Community
Right to Know Act is amended by changing Section 12 as follows:
 
    (430 ILCS 100/12)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7712)
    Sec. 12. Inventory forms. (a) The owner or operator of any
facility which is required to prepare or have available a
material safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical under the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and regulations
promulgated under that Act shall, in accordance with the
threshold levels for reporting as established by regulations
promulgated under the Federal Act, prepare and submit an
emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form (hereafter in
this Act referred to as an "inventory form") to each of the
following:
    (1) the appropriate local emergency planning committee;
    (2) the State Emergency Response Commission; and
    (3) the fire department with jurisdiction over the
facility.
    The inventory form shall be submitted annually on or
before March 1, and shall contain tier I data with respect to
the preceding calendar year.
    (b) The requirement of subsection (a) does not apply if an
owner or operator provides, to the recipients described in
subsection (a), by the same deadline and with respect to the
same calendar year, an inventory form containing tier II
information.
    (c) An owner or operator may meet the requirements of this
Section with respect to a hazardous chemical which is a
mixture by doing one of the following:
    (1) Providing information on the inventory form on each
element or compound in the mixture which is a hazardous
chemical. If more than one mixture has the same element or
compound, only one listing on the inventory form for the
element or compound at the facility is necessary.
    (2) Providing information on the inventory form on the
mixture itself.
    (d) A hazardous chemical shall be subject to the
requirements of this Section only if it is a hazardous
chemical for which a material safety data sheet or a listing is
required under Section 311 of the Federal Act.
    (e) A tier I inventory form shall provide the following
information in aggregate terms for hazardous chemicals in
categories of health and physical hazards as set forth under
the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and regulations
promulgated under that Act:
    (1) an estimate (in ranges) of the maximum amount of
hazardous chemicals in each category present at the facility
at any time during the preceding calendar year;
    (2) an estimate (in ranges) of the maximum amount of
hazardous chemicals in each category present at the facility
at any time during the preceding calendar year; and
    (3) the general location of hazardous chemicals in each
category.
    (f) A tier II inventory form shall provide the following
additional information for each hazardous chemical present at
the facility, but only upon request and in accordance with
subsection (g):
    (1) the chemical name or the common name of the chemical as
provided on the material safety data sheet;
    (2) an estimate (in ranges) of the maximum amount of the
hazardous chemical present at the facility at any time during
the preceding calendar year;
    (3) an estimate (in ranges) of the average daily amount of
the hazardous chemical present at the facility during the
preceding calendar year;
    (4) a brief description of the manner of storage of the
hazardous chemical;
    (5) the location at the facility of the hazardous
chemical; and
    (6) an indication of whether the owner elects to withhold
location information of a specific hazardous chemical from
disclosure to the public under Section 324 of the Federal Act.
    (g) Availability of tier II information shall be as
follows:
    (1) Upon request by the State Emergency Planning
Commission, a local emergency planning committee, or a fire
department with jurisdiction over the facility, the owner or
operator of a facility shall provide tier II information, as
described in subsection (g), to the person making the request.
    (2) A State or local official acting in his or her official
capacity may have access to tier II information by submitting
a request to the SERC or the local emergency planning
committee. Upon receipt of a request for tier II information,
the SERC or local committee shall, pursuant to paragraph (1),
request the facility owner or operator for the tier II
information and make available such information to the
official.
    (3) Any person may request the SERC or a local emergency
planning committee for tier II information relating to the
preceding calendar year with respect to a facility. Any such
request shall be in writing and shall be with respect to a
specific facility.
    (4) Any tier II information which the SERC or a local
emergency planning committee has in its possession shall be
made available to a person making a request under this
paragraph in accordance with Section 324 of the Federal Act.
If the SERC or local emergency planning committee does not
have the tier II information in its possession, upon receiving
a request for tier II information the SERC or local emergency
planning committee shall, pursuant to paragraph (1), request
the facility owner or operator for tier II information with
respect to a hazardous chemical which a facility has stored in
an amount in excess of 10,000 pounds present at the facility at
any time during the preceding calendar year and make such
information available to the person making the request in
accordance with Section 324 of the Federal Act.
    (5) In the case of tier II information which is not in the
possession of the SERC or local emergency planning committee
and which relates to a hazardous chemical which a facility has
stored in an amount less than 10,000 pounds present at the
facility at any time during the preceding calendar year, a
request from a person must include the general need for the
information. The SERC or local emergency planning committee
may, pursuant to paragraph (1), make a request to the facility
owner or operator for the tier II information on behalf of the
person making the request. Upon receipt of any information
requested on behalf of such person, the SERC or local
emergency planning committee shall make the information
available to the person in accordance with Section 324 of the
Federal Act.
    (6) The SERC or local emergency planning committee shall
respond to a request for tier II information under this
Section no later than 45 days after the date of receipt of the
request.
    (7) Upon request to an owner or operator of a facility
which files an inventory form under this Section by the fire
department with jurisdiction over the facility, the owner or
operator of the facility shall allow the fire department to
conduct an on-site inspection of the facility and shall
provide to the fire department specific location information
on hazardous chemicals at the facility.
    (8) The SERC shall provide and maintain a Tier II
reporting system that has the capability to allow the
reporting facility filing a Tier II inventory form to verify
the accuracy of the facility's chemical storage address,
including the latitude and longitude associated with that
address, using a mapping-based software.
    (h) The tier 1 and tier 2 inventory forms promulgated by
USEPA for use in meeting the requirements of Section 312 of the
Federal Act may be used to fulfill the requirements of this
Section.
(Source: P.A. 86-449.)

Effective Date: 1/1/2025