Bill Text: IL HJR0153 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, in coordination with the Department of Public Health, shall conduct a study of lead in Illinois drinking water describing the chemical and human health impacts of lead in Illinois piped water supplies. Provides that the Agency shall make weekly reports and publish them online. Provides that the Agency shall make a preliminary formal report by September 1, 2016, and a final report by January 1, 2017. Provides that each report shall be delivered to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the Senate, and that each report shall be published online.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-4)
Status: (Passed) 2016-05-31 - Adopted Both Houses [HJR0153 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HJR0153-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, According to both the United States Environmental | ||||||
3 | Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and | ||||||
4 | Prevention, there is no safe level of exposure to lead; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Illinois has a large number of older homes and | ||||||
6 | more lead service lines than any other state; and
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7 | WHEREAS, More than 170 public water systems in Illinois | ||||||
8 | serving approximately 700,000 people have exceeded federal | ||||||
9 | lead standards during at least one year since 2004, and 9 water | ||||||
10 | systems in the Chicago area have exceeded federal lead | ||||||
11 | standards at least twice since 2004, including municipalities | ||||||
12 | in Cook, DuPage, and Lake Counties; and
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13 | WHEREAS, One in every 10 Illinois water systems has found | ||||||
14 | lead levels exceeding 40 parts per billion - a level the EPA | ||||||
15 | has noted poses an imminent and substantial threat to the | ||||||
16 | health of children and pregnant women - in at least one home | ||||||
17 | between 2011 and 2015; and
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18 | WHEREAS, Illinois water systems that have reported lead | ||||||
19 | levels higher than 40 parts per billion since 2011 include, but | ||||||
20 | are not limited to, the University of Illinois at | ||||||
21 | Urbana-Champaign, Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, |
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1 | Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, the Stateville | ||||||
2 | Correction Center near Joliet, and the Illinois Youth Center | ||||||
3 | near St. Charles; therefore, be it
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4 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
5 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
6 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the Illinois Environmental | ||||||
7 | Protection Agency, in coordination with the Department of | ||||||
8 | Public Health, shall conduct a study of lead in Illinois | ||||||
9 | drinking water describing the chemical and human health impacts | ||||||
10 | of lead in Illinois piped water supplies; and be it further
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11 | RESOLVED, That in conducting this study the Agency shall | ||||||
12 | monitor actual lead levels, measured in parts per billion, in a | ||||||
13 | wide variety of supplies of Illinois piped water; monitoring | ||||||
14 | efforts shall concentrate on, but shall not be limited to, | ||||||
15 | Illinois public water systems where lead test results have | ||||||
16 | exceeded U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lead standards | ||||||
17 | in at least one year since 2004; and be it further
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18 | RESOLVED, That each component of this study shall delineate | ||||||
19 | the number of samples that made up each data set, and shall | ||||||
20 | list the municipality or other unit of local government that | ||||||
21 | describes the water system from which each sample was taken; | ||||||
22 | and be it further
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1 | RESOLVED, That all results from this lead monitoring shall | ||||||
2 | be public documents and shall be published online on the | ||||||
3 | Agency's official website on a weekly basis; and be it further
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4 | RESOLVED, That the Agency shall deliver a preliminary | ||||||
5 | report, listing the water systems where testing is taking place | ||||||
6 | to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, | ||||||
7 | the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the House | ||||||
8 | of Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the Senate by | ||||||
9 | September 1, 2016; the report shall be published online on the | ||||||
10 | Agency's official website no later than September 1, 2016; and | ||||||
11 | be it further
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12 | RESOLVED, That the Agency shall deliver a final report, | ||||||
13 | summarizing its test results and making policy recommendations | ||||||
14 | to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, | ||||||
15 | the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the House | ||||||
16 | of Representatives, and the Minority Leader of the Senate by | ||||||
17 | January 1, 2017; the report shall be published online on the | ||||||
18 | Agency's official website no later than January 1, 2017; and be | ||||||
19 | it further
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20 | RESOLVED, That the study shall begin immediately upon | ||||||
21 | adoption of this resolution.
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