103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB3448

 

Introduced 2/8/2024, by Sen. Linda Holmes

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
430 ILCS 100/12  from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7712

    Amends the Illinois Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. Requires State agencies to verify addresses of locations of Tier II chemicals before providing Tier II chemical address information to local agencies.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning safety.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Emergency Planning and Community
5Right to Know Act is amended by changing Section 12 as follows:
 
6    (430 ILCS 100/12)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7712)
7    Sec. 12. Inventory forms. (a) The owner or operator of any
8facility which is required to prepare or have available a
9material safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical under the
10Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and regulations
11promulgated under that Act shall, in accordance with the
12threshold levels for reporting as established by regulations
13promulgated under the Federal Act, prepare and submit an
14emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form (hereafter in
15this Act referred to as an "inventory form") to each of the
16following:
17    (1) the appropriate local emergency planning committee;
18    (2) the State Emergency Response Commission; and
19    (3) the fire department with jurisdiction over the
20facility.
21    The inventory form shall be submitted annually on or
22before March 1, and shall contain tier I data with respect to
23the preceding calendar year.

 

 

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1    (b) The requirement of subsection (a) does not apply if an
2owner or operator provides, to the recipients described in
3subsection (a), by the same deadline and with respect to the
4same calendar year, an inventory form containing tier II
5information.
6    (c) An owner or operator may meet the requirements of this
7Section with respect to a hazardous chemical which is a
8mixture by doing one of the following:
9    (1) Providing information on the inventory form on each
10element or compound in the mixture which is a hazardous
11chemical. If more than one mixture has the same element or
12compound, only one listing on the inventory form for the
13element or compound at the facility is necessary.
14    (2) Providing information on the inventory form on the
15mixture itself.
16    (d) A hazardous chemical shall be subject to the
17requirements of this Section only if it is a hazardous
18chemical for which a material safety data sheet or a listing is
19required under Section 311 of the Federal Act.
20    (e) A tier I inventory form shall provide the following
21information in aggregate terms for hazardous chemicals in
22categories of health and physical hazards as set forth under
23the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and regulations
24promulgated under that Act:
25    (1) an estimate (in ranges) of the maximum amount of
26hazardous chemicals in each category present at the facility

 

 

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1at any time during the preceding calendar year;
2    (2) an estimate (in ranges) of the maximum amount of
3hazardous chemicals in each category present at the facility
4at any time during the preceding calendar year; and
5    (3) the general location of hazardous chemicals in each
6category.
7    (f) A tier II inventory form shall provide the following
8additional information for each hazardous chemical present at
9the facility, but only upon request and in accordance with
10subsection (g):
11    (1) the chemical name or the common name of the chemical as
12provided on the material safety data sheet;
13    (2) an estimate (in ranges) of the maximum amount of the
14hazardous chemical present at the facility at any time during
15the preceding calendar year;
16    (3) an estimate (in ranges) of the average daily amount of
17the hazardous chemical present at the facility during the
18preceding calendar year;
19    (4) a brief description of the manner of storage of the
20hazardous chemical;
21    (5) the location at the facility of the hazardous
22chemical; and
23    (6) an indication of whether the owner elects to withhold
24location information of a specific hazardous chemical from
25disclosure to the public under Section 324 of the Federal Act.
26    (g) Availability of tier II information shall be as

 

 

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1follows:
2    (1) Upon request by the State Emergency Planning
3Commission, a local emergency planning committee, or a fire
4department with jurisdiction over the facility, the owner or
5operator of a facility shall provide tier II information, as
6described in subsection (g), to the person making the request.
7    (2) A State or local official acting in his or her official
8capacity may have access to tier II information by submitting
9a request to the SERC or the local emergency planning
10committee. Upon receipt of a request for tier II information,
11the SERC or local committee shall, pursuant to paragraph (1),
12request the facility owner or operator for the tier II
13information and make available such information to the
14official.
15    (3) Any person may request the SERC or a local emergency
16planning committee for tier II information relating to the
17preceding calendar year with respect to a facility. Any such
18request shall be in writing and shall be with respect to a
19specific facility.
20    (4) Any tier II information which the SERC or a local
21emergency planning committee has in its possession shall be
22made available to a person making a request under this
23paragraph in accordance with Section 324 of the Federal Act.
24If the SERC or local emergency planning committee does not
25have the tier II information in its possession, upon receiving
26a request for tier II information the SERC or local emergency

 

 

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1planning committee shall, pursuant to paragraph (1), request
2the facility owner or operator for tier II information with
3respect to a hazardous chemical which a facility has stored in
4an amount in excess of 10,000 pounds present at the facility at
5any time during the preceding calendar year and make such
6information available to the person making the request in
7accordance with Section 324 of the Federal Act.
8    (5) In the case of tier II information which is not in the
9possession of the SERC or local emergency planning committee
10and which relates to a hazardous chemical which a facility has
11stored in an amount less than 10,000 pounds present at the
12facility at any time during the preceding calendar year, a
13request from a person must include the general need for the
14information. The SERC or local emergency planning committee
15may, pursuant to paragraph (1), make a request to the facility
16owner or operator for the tier II information on behalf of the
17person making the request. Upon receipt of any information
18requested on behalf of such person, the SERC or local
19emergency planning committee shall make the information
20available to the person in accordance with Section 324 of the
21Federal Act.
22    (6) The SERC or local emergency planning committee shall
23respond to a request for tier II information under this
24Section no later than 45 days after the date of receipt of the
25request.
26    (7) Upon request to an owner or operator of a facility

 

 

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1which files an inventory form under this Section by the fire
2department with jurisdiction over the facility, the owner or
3operator of the facility shall allow the fire department to
4conduct an on-site inspection of the facility and shall
5provide to the fire department specific location information
6on hazardous chemicals at the facility.
7    (8) Any State agency, including the Illinois Emergency
8Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security, as well as
9the State Emergency Planning Commission, in providing
10addresses of locations of Tier II chemicals to any local
11agency, including a local emergency planning committee, shall
12independently confirm the accuracy of the addresses being
13provided to the local agency by directly contacting the owner
14of each entity included in the list being provided to the local
15agency.
16    (h) The tier 1 and tier 2 inventory forms promulgated by
17USEPA for use in meeting the requirements of Section 312 of the
18Federal Act may be used to fulfill the requirements of this
19Section.
20(Source: P.A. 86-449.)