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Public Act 90-0273

SB800 Enrolled                                LRB9001375KDksC

    AN ACT in relation to transportation.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section  1.  Short  title.   This Act may be cited as the
Bi-State Transit Safety Act.

    Section 5.  Definitions.  As used in this Act:
    "Accident" means any event involving the revenue  service
operation of a rail fixed guideway system if as a result:
         (1)  an individual dies;
         (2)  an   individual   suffers   bodily  injury  and
    immediately receives  medical  treatment  away  from  the
    scene of the accident; or
         (3)  a   collision,   derailment,   or  fire  causes
    property damage in excess of $100,000.
    "APTA  Guidelines"  means  the  American  Public  Transit
Association's "Manual for the  Development  of  Rail  Transit
System Safety Program Plans", published on August 20, 1991.
    "FTA" means the Federal Transit Administration, an agency
within the U.S. Department of Transportation.
    "Hazardous condition" means a condition that may endanger
human  life  or property.  It includes unacceptable hazardous
conditions.
    "Investigation" means a process to determine the probable
cause of an accident or an unacceptable hazardous  condition;
it  may  involve  no  more  than a review and approval of the
transit agency's determination of the probable  cause  of  an
accident or unacceptable hazardous condition.
    "Rail  fixed  guideway system" means any light, heavy, or
rapid  rail  system,  monorail,  inclined  plane,  funicular,
trolley, or automated guideway that is:
         (1)  included in FTA's calculation or fixed guideway
    route miles  or  receives  funding  under  FTA's  formula
    program for urbanized areas; and
         (2)  not   regulated   by   the   Federal   Railroad
    Administration.
    "Revenue service operation" means an operation outside of
a rail yard.
    "System  safety program plan" means a document adopted by
the transit agency detailing its safety policies, objectives,
responsibilities, and procedures.
    "System  safety  program  standard"  means  the  standard
developed and adopted by the State oversight agency which, at
a minimum, complies with the APTA  Guidelines,  requires  the
immediate  notification  of  appropriate  Illinois  emergency
service agencies in the event of an accident in Illinois, and
which addresses personal security.
    "Transit  agency"  means an entity operating a rail fixed
guideway system.
    "Unacceptable  hazardous  condition"  means  a  hazardous
condition  determined  to  be   an   unacceptable   hazardous
condition   using  the  APTA  Guidelines'  Hazard  Resolution
Matrix.

    Section 10.  Powers.   In  further  effectuation  of  the
Bi-State   Development  Compact  Act  creating  the  Bi-State
Development Agency, the State of Illinois  hereby  authorizes
the State of Missouri to exercise the following powers:
         (1)  To  regulate  the safety of rail fixed guideway
    systems and the personal security of the  passengers  and
    employees  of the Bi-State Development Agency located and
    operated within the boundaries of the State of  Illinois,
    in a manner consistent with "Rail Fixed Guideway Systems;
    State Safety Oversight", 49 CFR Part 659.
         (2)  To  develop,  adopt,  and  implement  a  system
    safety    program   standard   meeting   the   compliance
    requirements prescribed in Sections 659.31 and 659.33  of
    "Rail Fixed Guideway Systems; State Safety Oversight".
         (3)  To  require  the Bi-State Development Agency to
    report accidents and unacceptable hazardous conditions to
    the State of Missouri within a period of  time  specified
    by the State of Missouri as required by Section 659.39 of
    "Rail Fixed Guideway Systems; State Safety Oversight".
         (4)  To    establish   procedures   to   investigate
    accidents  and  unacceptable  hazardous   conditions   as
    required  by  Section  659.41  of  "Rail  Fixed  Guideway
    Systems; State Safety Oversight".
         (5)  To  direct  the  Bi-State Development Agency to
    minimize, control, correct, or eliminate any investigated
    hazardous condition within a period of time specified  by
    the  State  of  Missouri as required by Section 659.43 of
    "Rail Fixed Guideway Systems; State Safety Oversight".
         (6)  To perform all other necessary  and  incidental
    functions  related to its effectuation of this Act and as
    mandated by "Rail Fixed Guideway  Systems;  State  Safety
    Oversight". The powers and obligations given to the State
    of  Missouri shall also include mandatory notification to
    the Illinois Department of Transportation of the adoption
    of standards and  plans,  completion  of  investigations,
    reports,  audits,  and  recommendations given pursuant to
    this  Act  and  copies  of  such  standards  and   plans,
    investigations, reports and audits and recommendations to
    the Illinois Department of Transportation, upon request.

    Section  15.  Confidentiality  of  investigation reports.
The security portion  of  the  system  safety  program  plan,
investigation  reports,  surveys,  schedules,  lists, or data
compiled, collected, or prepared by the Bi-State  Development
Agency  or the State of Missouri under this Act, shall not be
subject to discovery or admitted into evidence in federal  or
State  court  or  considered  for other purposes in any civil
action for damages  arising  from  any  matter  mentioned  or
addressed  in  such plan, reports, surveys, schedules, lists,
or data.

    Section 20.  Liability.  Neither the  State  of  Missouri
nor  employees or agents thereof nor the Bi-State Development
Agency nor its commissioners, officers, or  employees,  shall
be  held  liable  in  any  civil action for any injury to any
person or property for any acts or omissions  or  failure  to
act  under  this  Act  or "Rail Fixed Guideway Systems; State
Safety Oversight".

    Section 25.  Right to contract for  safety  consultation.
The   State  of  Missouri  may  contract  with  the  Bi-State
Development Agency for safety consultation under the State of
Missouri's duties created by this Act.  The State of Missouri
may assess the Bi-State Development Agency for  its  expenses
in administering the Act.

    Section 30.  Jurisdiction.  The jurisdiction of the State
of  Missouri under this Act shall be exclusive, except to the
extent that its jurisdiction is preempted by federal statute,
regulation, or order.

    Section 31. Repealer.  This Act is repealed  on  July  1,
2001.

    Section 50.  The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
changing Section 7 as follows:

    (5 ILCS 140/7) (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
    Sec. 7.  Exemptions.
    (1)  The  following  shall  be exempt from inspection and
copying:
         (a)  Information   specifically   prohibited    from
    disclosure   by   federal  or  State  law  or  rules  and
    regulations adopted under federal or State law.
         (b)  Information   that,   if    disclosed,    would
    constitute  a  clearly  unwarranted  invasion of personal
    privacy, unless the disclosure is consented to in writing
    by the  individual  subjects  of  the  information.   The
    disclosure of information that bears on the public duties
    of public employees and officials shall not be considered
    an  invasion  of  personal privacy.  Information exempted
    under this  subsection  (b)  shall  include  but  is  not
    limited to:
              (i)  files  and personal information maintained
         with  respect  to  clients,   patients,   residents,
         students  or  other  individuals  receiving  social,
         medical,    educational,    vocational,   financial,
         supervisory or custodial care or  services  directly
         or   indirectly  from  federal  agencies  or  public
         bodies;
              (ii)  personnel files and personal  information
         maintained  with respect to employees, appointees or
         elected officials of any public body  or  applicants
         for those positions;
              (iii)  files     and    personal    information
         maintained with respect to any applicant, registrant
         or licensee by any public body cooperating  with  or
         engaged     in    professional    or    occupational
         registration, licensure or discipline;
              (iv)  information required of any  taxpayer  in
         connection  with the assessment or collection of any
         tax unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
         statute; and
              (v)  information  revealing  the  identity   of
         persons   who   file   complaints  with  or  provide
         information to  administrative,  investigative,  law
         enforcement  or  penal  agencies; provided, however,
         that  identification   of   witnesses   to   traffic
         accidents,  traffic  accident  reports,  and  rescue
         reports   may  be  provided  by  agencies  of  local
         government, except in a case for  which  a  criminal
         investigation  is  ongoing,  without  constituting a
         clearly unwarranted  per  se  invasion  of  personal
         privacy under this subsection.
         (c)  Records   compiled   by  any  public  body  for
    administrative  enforcement  proceedings  and   any   law
    enforcement  or  correctional  agency for law enforcement
    purposes or for internal matters of a  public  body,  but
    only to the extent that disclosure would:
              (i)  interfere  with  pending  or  actually and
         reasonably contemplated law enforcement  proceedings
         conducted  by  any  law  enforcement or correctional
         agency;
              (ii)  interfere  with  pending   administrative
         enforcement  proceedings  conducted  by  any  public
         body;
              (iii)  deprive  a  person of a fair trial or an
         impartial hearing;
              (iv)  unavoidably disclose the  identity  of  a
         confidential   source  or  confidential  information
         furnished only by the confidential source;
              (v)  disclose     unique     or     specialized
         investigative techniques other than those  generally
         used  and  known  or  disclose internal documents of
         correctional   agencies   related   to    detection,
         observation  or  investigation of incidents of crime
         or misconduct;
              (vi)  constitute  an   invasion   of   personal
         privacy under subsection (b) of this Section;
              (vii)  endanger  the life or physical safety of
         law enforcement personnel or any other person; or
              (viii)  obstruct    an     ongoing     criminal
         investigation.
         (d)  Criminal  history record information maintained
    by State or local criminal justice agencies,  except  the
    following  which  shall be open for public inspection and
    copying:
              (i)  chronologically     maintained      arrest
         information,  such  as  traditional  arrest  logs or
         blotters;
              (ii)  the name of a person in the custody of  a
         law  enforcement  agency  and  the charges for which
         that person is being held;
              (iii)  court records that are public;
              (iv)  records  that  are  otherwise   available
         under State or local law; or
              (v)  records  in  which the requesting party is
         the individual identified, except as provided  under
         part  (vii)  of  paragraph  (c) of subsection (1) of
         this Section.
         "Criminal history  record  information"  means  data
    identifiable   to   an   individual   and  consisting  of
    descriptions  or  notations   of   arrests,   detentions,
    indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
    or  other formal events in the criminal justice system or
    descriptions or notations of criminal charges  (including
    criminal  violations  of  local municipal ordinances) and
    the  nature  of  any   disposition   arising   therefrom,
    including  sentencing, court or correctional supervision,
    rehabilitation and release.  The term does not  apply  to
    statistical  records and reports in which individuals are
    not identified and from which their  identities  are  not
    ascertainable,  or  to  information  that is for criminal
    investigative or intelligence purposes.
         (e)  Records that relate to or affect  the  security
    of correctional institutions and detention facilities.
         (f)  Preliminary   drafts,  notes,  recommendations,
    memoranda  and  other  records  in  which  opinions   are
    expressed,  or policies or actions are formulated, except
    that a specific record or relevant portion  of  a  record
    shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
    identified  by the head of the public body. The exemption
    provided in this  paragraph  (f)  extends  to  all  those
    records  of officers and agencies of the General Assembly
    that pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
         (g)  Trade  secrets  and  commercial  or   financial
    information  obtained from a person or business where the
    trade secrets or information are proprietary,  privileged
    or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
    or  information may cause competitive harm, including all
    information determined to be confidential  under  Section
    4002  of  the Technology Advancement and Development Act.
    Nothing  contained  in  this  paragraph  (g)   shall   be
    construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
    to disclosure.
         (h)  Proposals  and bids for any contract, grant, or
    agreement,  including  information  which  if   it   were
    disclosed   would   frustrate   procurement  or  give  an
    advantage  to  any  person  proposing  to  enter  into  a
    contractor agreement with the body,  until  an  award  or
    final  selection is made.  Information prepared by or for
    the body in preparation of a bid  solicitation  shall  be
    exempt until an award or final selection is made.
         (i)  Valuable   formulae,   designs,   drawings  and
    research data obtained or produced  by  any  public  body
    when  disclosure  could reasonably be expected to produce
    private gain or public loss.
         (j)  Test  questions,   scoring   keys   and   other
    examination   data   used   to   administer  an  academic
    examination  or  determined  the  qualifications  of   an
    applicant for a license or employment.
         (k)  Architects'   plans  and  engineers'  technical
    submissions for projects not constructed or developed  in
    whole  or  in  part  with  public  funds and for projects
    constructed or developed with public funds, to the extent
    that disclosure would compromise security.
         (l)  Library   circulation   and    order    records
    identifying library users with specific materials.
         (m)  Minutes  of meetings of public bodies closed to
    the public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
    public body makes the minutes  available  to  the  public
    under Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
         (n)  Communications  between  a  public  body and an
    attorney or auditor representing  the  public  body  that
    would  not  be  subject  to  discovery in litigation, and
    materials prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
    anticipation  of  a  criminal,  civil  or  administrative
    proceeding upon the request of an attorney  advising  the
    public  body,  and  materials  prepared  or compiled with
    respect to internal audits of public bodies.
         (o)  Information received by a primary or  secondary
    school,  college  or  university under its procedures for
    the evaluation  of  faculty  members  by  their  academic
    peers.
         (p)  Administrative    or    technical   information
    associated with  automated  data  processing  operations,
    including   but   not   limited  to  software,  operating
    protocols,  computer  program  abstracts,  file  layouts,
    source  listings,  object  modules,  load  modules,  user
    guides,  documentation  pertaining  to  all  logical  and
    physical  design  of   computerized   systems,   employee
    manuals,  and  any  other information that, if disclosed,
    would jeopardize the security of the system or  its  data
    or the security of materials exempt under this Section.
         (q)  Documents  or  materials relating to collective
    negotiating  matters  between  public  bodies  and  their
    employees  or  representatives,  except  that  any  final
    contract or agreement shall be subject to inspection  and
    copying.
         (r)  Drafts,  notes,  recommendations  and memoranda
    pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
    the public body. The records of ownership,  registration,
    transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
    of   persons  to  whom  payment  with  respect  to  these
    obligations is made.
         (s)  The records, documents and information relating
    to  real  estate  purchase   negotiations   until   those
    negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
    With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
    and  reasonably  contemplated  eminent  domain proceeding
    under  Article  VII  of  the  Code  of  Civil  Procedure,
    records,  documents  and  information  relating  to  that
    parcel shall be exempt except as  may  be  allowed  under
    discovery  rules  adopted  by the Illinois Supreme Court.
    The records, documents and information relating to a real
    estate sale shall be exempt until a sale is consummated.
         (t)  Any and all proprietary information and records
    related to the operation  of  an  intergovernmental  risk
    management  association or self-insurance pool or jointly
    self-administered  health  and  accident  cooperative  or
    pool.
         (u)  Information    concerning    a     university's
    adjudication   of   student   or  employee  grievance  or
    disciplinary cases, to the extent that  disclosure  would
    reveal  the  identity  of  the  student  or  employee and
    information concerning any public body's adjudication  of
    student  or  employee  grievances  or disciplinary cases,
    except for the final outcome of the cases.
         (v)  Course materials or research materials used  by
    faculty members.
         (w)  Information  related  solely  to  the  internal
    personnel rules and practices of a public body.
         (x)  Information   contained   in   or   related  to
    examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
    on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
    for  the   regulation   or   supervision   of   financial
    institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
    otherwise required by State law.
         (y)  Information   the   disclosure   of   which  is
    restricted under Section 5-108 of  the  Public  Utilities
    Act.
         (z)  Manuals  or instruction to staff that relate to
    establishment or collection of liability  for  any  State
    tax  or that relate to investigations by a public body to
    determine violation of any criminal law.
         (aa)  Applications, related documents,  and  medical
    records    received    by    the    Experimental    Organ
    Transplantation   Procedures   Board   and  any  and  all
    documents or other records prepared by  the  Experimental
    Organ  Transplantation  Procedures  Board  or  its  staff
    relating to applications it has received.
         (bb)  Insurance  or  self  insurance  (including any
    intergovernmental risk  management  association  or  self
    insurance   pool)   claims,   loss   or  risk  management
    information, records, data, advice or communications.
         (cc)  Information and records held by the Department
    of  Public  Health  and  its  authorized  representatives
    relating  to  known  or  suspected  cases   of   sexually
    transmissible  disease  or any information the disclosure
    of  which  is  restricted  under  the  Illinois  Sexually
    Transmissible Disease Control Act.
         (dd)  Information  the  disclosure   of   which   is
    exempted under Section 7 of the Radon Mitigation Act.
         (ee)  Firm  performance evaluations under Section 55
    of the Architectural,  Engineering,  and  Land  Surveying
    Qualifications Based Selection Act.
         (ff)  Security  portions  of  system  safety program
    plans, investigation reports, surveys, schedules,  lists,
    data,  or information compiled, collected, or prepared by
    or  for  the  Regional  Transportation  Authority   under
    Section 2.11 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act
    or  the  State  of  Missouri  under  the Bi-State Transit
    Safety Act.
    (2)  This  Section  does  not  authorize  withholding  of
information or limit  the  availability  of  records  to  the
public,  except  as  stated  in  this  Section  or  otherwise
provided in this Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-241; 87-673; 87-895; 88-444.)

    Section  55.  The  Metropolitan  Transit Authority Act is
amended by changing Sections 9a, 9b, and 27a as follows:

    (70 ILCS 3605/9a) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 309a)
    Sec. 9a.  In  addition  to  all  its  other  powers,  the
Authority  shall,  in  all  its  dealings  with  the Regional
Transportation  Authority  established   by   the   "Regional
Transportation  Authority  Act",  enacted by the 78th General
Assembly, have the following powers:
    (a)  to  cooperate  with  the   Regional   Transportation
Authority  in  the  exercise  by  the Regional Transportation
Authority of all the powers granted it by such Act;
    (b)  to receive funds from  the  Regional  Transportation
Authority  pursuant  to  Sections  2.02, 4.01, 4.02, 4.09 and
4.10 of the "Regional Transportation Authority Act",  all  as
provided in the "Regional Transportation Authority Act";
    (c)  to   receive  financial  grants  from  the  Regional
Transportation Authority or a Service Board,  as  defined  in
the  "Regional Transportation Authority Act", upon such terms
and conditions as shall be set  forth  in  a  grant  contract
between  either the Authority and the Regional Transportation
Authority or the Authority and another Service  Board,  which
contract  or  agreement  may  be  for such number of years or
duration as the parties may agree, all  as  provided  in  the
"Regional Transportation Authority Act";
    (d)  to   acquire   from   the   Regional  Transportation
Authority any Public Transportation Facility, as  defined  in
the  "Regional  Transportation  Authority  Act",  by purchase
contract, gift, grant, exchange for other property or  rights
in   property,   lease   (or   sublease)  or  installment  or
conditional purchase contracts, which contracts or leases may
provide for consideration to be paid in  annual  installments
during  a period not exceeding 40 years; such property may be
acquired subject to such conditions, restrictions,  liens  or
security or other interests of other parties as the Authority
may  deem  appropriate  and  in  each  case the Authority may
acquire or dispose of a joint, leasehold,  easement,  license
or other partial interest in such property;
    (e)  to  sell,  sell  by  installment contract, lease (or
sublease) as lessor, or transfer to, or grant to  or  provide
for  the  use  by  the  Regional Transportation Authority any
Public Transportation Facility, as defined in  the  "Regional
Transportation  Authority  Act", upon such terms and for such
consideration, or for no consideration, as the Authority  may
deem proper;
    (f)  to   cooperate   with  the  Regional  Transportation
Authority for the protection of employees  of  the  Authority
and  users  of public transportation facilities against crime
and unsafe conditions and also to  protect  such  facilities;
such  cooperation may include, without limitation, agreements
for the coordination or merger of police or security forces;
    (g)  to file such budgets, financial  plans  and  reports
with  and  transfer  such records, papers or documents to the
Regional Transportation Authority as may be agreed upon with,
or required by the Regional Transportation Authority, all  as
provided in the "Regional Transportation Authority Act".
(Source: P.A. 83-1362.)

    (70 ILCS 3605/9b) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 309b)
    Sec. 9b. The Authority shall comply with the requirements
imposed  upon a Service Board in Sections 4.09(d) and 4.11 of
the  Regional  Transportation  Authority  Act  and  with  the
requirements  of  subsection  (b)  of  Section  2.11  of  the
Regional Transportation Authority Act.  The  Authority  shall
present  evidence  that  it  has complied with Section 27a of
this Act to the Regional Transportation  Authority  Oversight
Board created by Section 4.01a of the Regional Transportation
Authority Act, as amended.
(Source: P.A. 86-463.)

    (70 ILCS 3605/27a) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 327a)
    Sec.  27a. In addition to annually expending moneys equal
to moneys expended by the Authority in the fiscal year ending
December 31, 1988 for the protection  against  crime  of  its
properties,   employees   and   consumers   of   its   public
transportation  services,  the  Authority also shall annually
expend for the protection against crime of its employees  and
consumers,  an  amount  that  is  equal  to  not less than 15
percent of all direct grants it receives from  the  State  of
Illinois  as  reimbursement  for  providing reduced fares for
mass transportation services to students, handicapped persons
and the elderly. The Authority shall provide to the  Regional
Transportation Authority Oversight Board established pursuant
to  Section  4.01a  of  the Regional Transportation Authority
Act, as amended, such  information  as  is  required  by  the
Regional   Transportation   Authority   Oversight   Board  in
determining whether the  Authority  has  expended  moneys  in
compliance  with  the  provisions  of  this  Section and with
respect to any studies and hearings that the Oversight  Board
may  conduct  on the matter of the protection of employees of
the  Chicago  Transit  Authority  and  consumers  of   public
transportation  services  provided  by  the  Chicago  Transit
Authority against crime. The provisions of this Section shall
apply in any fiscal year of the Authority only after all debt
service requirements are met for that fiscal year.
(Source: P.A. 86-463.)

    Section 60.  The Regional Transportation Authority Act is
amended by changing Section 2.11 as follows:

    (70 ILCS 3615/2.11) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 702.11)
    Sec. 2.11. Safety.
    (a)  The   Service  Boards  may  establish,  enforce  and
facilitate achievement and maintenance of standards of safety
against  accidents  with  respect  to  public  transportation
provided by the Service Boards or by transportation  agencies
pursuant  to  purchase of service agreements with the Service
Boards. The provisions of general or special orders, rules or
regulations  issued  by  the  Illinois  Commerce   Commission
pursuant   to   Section  57  of  "An  Act  concerning  public
utilities", approved June 29, 1921, as amended, which pertain
to public transportation and public transportation facilities
of railroads will continue to apply until the  Service  Board
determines  that different standards are necessary to protect
such health and safety.
    (b)  To the extent required by 49 CFR Part 659 as now  or
hereafter  amended,  the  Authority shall develop and adopt a
system safety program standard for the safety of  rail  fixed
guideway  systems  and  the personal security of the systems'
passengers and employees and shall establish  procedures  for
safety  and  security  reviews, investigations, and oversight
reporting. The Authority shall require the applicable Service
Boards to comply with the requirements of 49 CFR Part 659  as
now or hereafter amended.  The Authority may contract for the
services  of  a  qualified  consultant  to  comply  with this
subsection.
    (c)  The security portion of the system  safety  program,
investigation  reports,  surveys,  schedules,  lists, or data
compiled, collected, or prepared  by  or  for  the  Authority
under  this  subsection, shall not be subject to discovery or
admitted  into  evidence  in  federal  or  State   court   or
considered for other purposes in any civil action for damages
arising  from  any  matter  mentioned  or  addressed  in such
reports, surveys, schedules, lists, data, or information.
    (d)  Neither the Authority nor its  directors,  officers,
or  employees  nor  any Service Board subject to this Section
nor its directors,  officers,  or  employees  shall  be  held
liable  in  any  civil action for any injury to any person or
property for any acts or omissions or failure  to  act  under
this  Section  or  pursuant  to  49  CFR  Part  659 as now or
hereafter amended.
(Source: P.A. 83-886.)

    Section 65.  The Illinois  Vehicle  Code  is  amended  by
adding Section 15-308.1 as follows:

    (625 ILCS 5/15-308.1 new)
    Sec.  15-308.1.  Fees  for  moving oversize or overweight
equipment to the site of rail derailments.  Fees for  permits
to  move  oversize  or  overweight  equipment to the sites of
train  derailments  shall  include  all  equipment  otherwise
eligible  to  obtain  single  trip   permits   under   normal
situations.   The  permit  shall be valid for a period of one
year and can be used at any time for movement to the site  of
a  train  derailment  during an emergency.  The amount of the
fee shall be $500.

    (70 ILCS 3615/4.01a rep.)
    Section 70.  The Regional Transportation Authority Act is
amended by repealing Section 4.01a.

    Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
becoming law.

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