Bill Text: IL HB3508 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the PFAS Reduction Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a take-back program for fire departments that use and store firefighting foam containing PFAS. Provides that fire departments that participated in the most recent survey conducted under the Act by the Office of the State Fire Marshal shall be eligible to participate in the program, but participation in the program shall not be required. Requires the program to provide funding and resources to ensure the proper disposal or destruction of firefighting foam containing PFAS. Provides that the program shall continue for a period of 5 years or until the Office of the State Fire Marshal finds that no firefighting foam containing PFAS is reported. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0351 [HB3508 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3508-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The PFAS Reduction Act is amended by adding
Section 40 as follows:
(415 ILCS 170/40 new)
Sec. 40. Guidance from United States Environmental
Protection Agency; PFAS monitoring plan; technical assistance;
PFAS disposal program.
(a) The Agency shall follow the most up-to-date guidance
to states from the United States Environmental Protection
Agency on addressing the discharge of PFAS in National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits;
however, the Agency shall not require monitoring for PFAS in
influent, effluent, and biosolids to commence less than 30
days after the United States Environmental Protection Agency
adopts an approved method for analyzing PFAS in these
matrices. Monitoring required under NPDES permits shall be
limited to those specific PFAS compounds for which an
analytical method has been approved by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency.
(b) The Agency shall create a PFAS monitoring plan. The
plan shall focus on the following:

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(1) monitoring PFAS occurrence in wastewater flows
from industrial and domestic sources, stormwater
discharges, and solid waste streams;
(2) gathering State-specific information in order to
craft effective policies to address PFAS occurrence in
wastewater, stormwater, and solid waste; and
(3) gathering data to inform PFAS source reduction and
pollution prevention programs, including, but not limited
to, industrial pretreatment programs administered by
publicly owned treatment works.
The plan shall be submitted to the Governor and the
General Assembly by July 1, 2024.
(c) The Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Sustainable
Technology Center shall provide technical assistance to
industrial wastewater dischargers in best management
practices, pollution prevention, production substitution, and
elimination to reduce or eliminate PFAS compounds.
(d) The Agency shall establish a take-back program for
fire departments that use and store firefighting foam
containing PFAS. Fire departments that participated in the
most recent survey described in Section 25 shall be eligible
to participate in the program, but participation in the
program shall not be required. The program shall provide
funding and resources to ensure the proper destruction of
firefighting foam containing PFAS. The program shall continue
for a period of 5 years or until the Office of the State Fire

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Marshal finds that no firefighting foam containing PFAS is
reported in the survey described in Section 25. This program
is subject to appropriation.
(e) Implementation of this Section is subject to
appropriation.