Bill Amendment: IL SB0727 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

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Bill Title: HEALTH-TECH

Status: 2025-03-21 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-1077 [SB0727 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB0727-Senate_Amendment_002.html

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Sen. Mike Simmons

Filed: 5/7/2024

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 727
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 727 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Safe
Public Drinking Water Act.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Agency" means the Environmental Protection Agency.
"Board" means the Pollution Control Board.
"MCL" means maximum contaminant level, or the legal
threshold limit on the amount of a substance that is allowed in
public water systems.
"Perfluoroalkyl substance or polyfluoroalkyl substance" or
"PFAS" means a class of fluorinated organic chemicals
containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.
Section 10. Purpose. It is the goal of the State of

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Illinois to protect residents from harmful toxins in drinking
water. Accordingly, this Act directs the Agency to conduct
statewide sampling of certain community water supplies for the
presence of 1,4-Dioxane.
Section 15. Rulemaking; identical in substance. Within one
year of the promulgation by the United States Environmental
Protection Agency of regulations or amendments establishing
MCLs for any PFAS, the Board shall adopt rules that are
identical in substance to such federal regulations or
amendments, thereby establishing such PFAS MCLs for Illinois'
community water supplies.
Section 20. Sampling for 1,4-Dioxane.
(a) The Agency shall, by June 30, 2026, conduct sampling
of the Illinois community water supplies previously sampled by
the Agency for 1,4-Dioxane from the years 2013 through 2015.
(b) If the results of such sampling detect drinking water
levels of 1,4-Dioxane in excess of the United States
Environmental Protection Agency Health Reference Level of 35
micrograms per liter, the Agency shall, within 2 years after
June 30, 2026, take all actions needed to obtain the expertise
necessary to propose rules that will establish a State-only
MCL for 1,4-Dioxane.
(c) By no later than June 30, 2029, the Agency shall
propose, and, by no later than June 30, 2030, the Board shall

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