Public Act 90-0449 of the 90th General Assembly

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Public Act 90-0449

SB689 Enrolled                                LRB9000098DJccA

    AN ACT to amend the Hazardous Materials Emergency Act  by
changing  Sections 3, 4, 5, 5.07, 5.09, 6, 8, 8.02, and 8.03,
by adding  Section 5.11, and by  repealing Section 5.02.

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

    Section  5.  The  Hazardous  Materials  Emergency  Act is
amended by changing Sections 3, 4, 5, 5.07, 5.09, 6, 8, 8.02,
and 8.03 and  by adding Section 5.11 as follows:

    (430 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 1253)
    Sec. 3.  It is the purpose of this  Act  to  require  the
Illinois Department  of Transportation to adopt by regulation
the   federal   hazardous  materials  placarding  regulations
promulgated under the Hazardous Materials Transportation  Act
(PL  93-633)  for interstate and intrastate transportation of
hazardous materials as they are applicable in  the  State  of
Illinois,  and  to  recommend  that units of local government
require the Illinois Emergency  Management  Agency  to  adopt
regulations   for   hazard   signage  systems  applicable  to
placarding the use, storage,  and  manufacture  of  hazardous
materials with the following exceptions:
    (a)  No   hazard   signage  system  or  State  placarding
requirements  shall   apply   to   the   use,   storage,   or
transportation  of  a hazardous material that is located on a
farm or being transported to a farm and that is  used  solely
for  agricultural  purposes.   It  is not the purpose of this
Section to exempt the  owner  of  an  agricultural  hazardous
material from reporting an accident involving the material as
required  in  Sections  7 and 7.01 of this Act, nor is it the
purpose  of  this  Section  to  exempt  from  the  placarding
requirements the storage, transportation or manufacture of  a
hazardous  material that is an agricultural material when the
material  is  in  the   possession   of   the   manufacturer,
distributor, dealer, retailer or any other person who handles
the  material  in  larger  quantities than those designed for
consumer use or for  any  purpose  other  than  its  intended
agricultural usage.
    (b)  (Blank).  If  the  Agency  determines,  after public
hearing,  that  State  required  placarding  of  a  hazardous
material  during  use,  storage  or  manufacture   may   draw
attention  to  the  material  and thereby endanger the public
health and safety, the Agency may, by regulation, exempt  any
hazardous  material  or class of hazardous materials from the
State placarding requirements,  except  that  no  regulations
shall   be   adopted  exempting  a  hazardous  material  from
placarding without the approval of the  Hazardous   Materials
Advisory Board.
    (c)  No  State  placarding requirements or hazard signage
requirements adopted pursuant to  this  Act  shall  apply  to
pipelines  or  meters involved in the transmission of natural
or flammable gas by  a  public  utility  as  defined  in  the
Public Utilities Act.
    (d)  This  Act  does  not  authorize  the  Department  to
require any placarding system for transportation of hazardous
materials  that  is  inconsistent  with any placarding system
required by Federal law or regulation, nor does it  authorize
the  Department  to  require  any  placarding system or other
standards for transportation of hazardous materials  that  is
more  stringent   than  any  placarding  system  or  standard
required  by  the  federal  law  or regulations in situations
where a federal placarding system exists.
(Source: P.A. 87-168.)

    (430 ILCS 50/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 1254)
    Sec. 4.  There is hereby created  a  Hazardous  Materials
Advisory  Board,  composed  of 21 20 members as follows:  the
Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, or  his
designee;  the  Director  of Agriculture or his designee; the
Director  of  the  Office  of  Mines  and  Minerals  in   the
Department of Natural Resources or his designee; the Chairman
of  the  Illinois  Commerce  Commission  or his designee; the
Director of Public Health or his designee;  the  Director  of
the  Environmental  Protection  Agency  or  his designee; the
Secretary of Transportation or his designee; the  State  Fire
Marshal  or his designee; the Director of State Police or his
designee; the Director of Natural Resources or his  designee;
the  Illinois  Attorney General or his designee; the Director
of Nuclear Safety or his designee; the Executive Director  of
the  Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board or his
designee;  the  Director  of  the   Illinois   Fire   Service
Institute,  University  of  Illinois,  or his designee; and a
representative from the Illinois  Association  of  Chiefs  of
Police;  the  Illinois Fire Chief's Association; the Illinois
Sheriff's  Association;  the  Illinois   Emergency   Services
Management  Association;  and  4  members  appointed  by  the
Governor,  one of whom shall represent volunteer firefighters
firemen, one of whom  shall  represent  the  local  emergency
response   service  and  two  shall  represent  the  business
community. The Chairman shall be selected by  the  membership
from those members not representing a State agency.
    The Board shall meet within 90 days of the effective date
of  this  amendatory  Act of 1984 to select a chairman, other
officers and  establish  an  organization  structure  as  the
members  deem  necessary  and  thereafter  at the call of the
chair or any 11 members.  A person who has been designated by
the Director of his department to represent the  Director  on
the  Board  shall be entitled to vote on all questions before
the Board.  Eleven members of the Board constitute a  quorum,
except   that  where  members  have  not  been  appointed  or
designated to the Board, a quorum shall be constituted  by  a
simple majority of the appointed or designated membership.
    The  Board  shall  advise and make recommendations to the
Agency regarding the placarding  of  hazardous  materials  in
fixed  locations  and  the reporting of an accident involving
hazardous materials  and  to  the  Department  regarding  the
placarding  of  transportation  of  hazardous materials.  The
Board shall design a program and  develop  a  Statewide  plan
providing  for a coordinating system among State agencies and
departments and units of local government,  for  response  to
accidents involving hazardous materials.  Every attempt shall
be  made  to avoid requiring any person to report an accident
involving hazardous materials to more than one State  agency.
If  at all possible, the primary agency receiving the reports
shall be the Illinois Emergency Management Agency,  and  that
agency shall relay reports to other State and local agencies.
    In  developing the Statewide Emergency Response Plan, the
Board  shall  organize  the  State  into  Regional  Emergency
Response Districts, identifying the  available  resources  in
each  District  and assuring that the Plan incorporates those
existing  resources.  Effort  shall  be  made  to  create   a
Statewide  Plan  that allows response to a hazardous material
incident within 20 minutes of its report.
    The Board shall form from among its members, an Emergency
Response Training and Standards Committee.  The Secretary  of
Transportation or his designee, the State Fire Marshal or his
designee,  and the representatives from the Chiefs of Police,
Fire Chiefs and Sheriff's Association shall also serve on the
Committee.  It shall be the  duty  of  this  Committee,  with
final  approval  of  the  Board,  to  recommend  standardized
training  courses  for firefighters firemen, police officers,
and other hazardous material emergency response personnel  of
the  State  and local governments; to recommend standards for
hazardous  material   emergency   response   equipment;   and
recommend  standards  for  achievement levels for the various
hazardous  material  emergency  response  personnel.      The
standardized  courses shall include training for firefighters
firemen,  police  officers,  and  other  hazardous   material
emergency   response   personnel  described  in  the  federal
regulations relating to the placarding system that  has  been
promulgated  under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
(P.L. 93-633).
    The Board shall review and recommend the material  to  be
provided  under Sections 5.04, 5.05, and 5.06 of this Act and
assure the development of a  plan  for  those  activities  in
Section 5.07 of this Act.
    The  Board  shall have the duty to study and recommend to
the various State agencies, local governments and the General
Assembly any aspect of placarding in  transportation,  hazard
signage systems, the training of hazardous material emergency
response  personnel, the equipment used in hazardous material
emergency  response,  the  planning  for  hazardous  material
emergency response,  and  the  dissemination  of  information
concerning these areas.
    The   Department   of  Transportation  and  the  Illinois
Emergency Management Agency shall furnish meeting facilities,
staff, and other administrative needs  of  the  Board.    The
Agency  or the Department shall inform the Board whenever the
Agency or the Department is considering the adoption  of  any
regulations  under  this  Act.   The Agency or the Department
shall send a copy of all proposed regulations to each  member
of  the  Board;  the Board shall be represented at all public
hearings regarding proposals for and changes in Agency or the
Department regulations.  The Board may,  at  its  discretion,
present  the  Agency  or  the  Department  with  its  written
evaluation of the proposed regulations or changes.
    Before the Agency or the Department exempts any hazardous
material  from the placarding regulations, under Section 3 of
this Act, the Board must approve  the  regulations  providing
for the exemption.
    By  January  1,  1978,  the  Board  shall determine which
persons involved in  the  use,  storage,  transportation,  or
manufacture  of  hazardous  materials  can  be  inspected for
compliance with the placarding provisions of this Act  within
the  current  statutory scope of each agency or department of
State government.  If the Board  determines  that  there  are
specific  categories  of  persons  regulated  by this Act who
cannot readily be inspected by existing personnel within  the
statutory  authority  of  the departments and agencies, or if
the Board determines that the purpose of  this   Act  can  be
better served by a centralized inspection responsibility, the
Board shall propose statutory changes to the General Assembly
to provide for the inspection.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)

    (430 ILCS 50/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 1255)
    Sec.  5.  The Agency or the Department shall exercise the
applicable powers and duties granted in Sections 5.01 through
5.10.  Units of local  government  may  exercise  the  powers
granted in Section 5.11.:
(Source: P.A. 79-1442.)

    (430 ILCS 50/5.07) (from Ch. 127, par. 1255.07)
    Sec.  5.07.   To coordinate with the other members of the
Board to determine  which  department  or  agency  can  best,
within  the statutory scope of its duties, inspect facilities
and equipment for  the  use,  storage,  transportation,   and
manufacture  of hazardous materials to determine whether they
are  in  compliance  with   applicable   federal   or   State
regulations the placarding provisions of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 79-1442.)

    (430 ILCS 50/5.09) (from Ch. 127, par. 1255.09)
    Sec.  5.09.  To provide for a period of 90 days following
the adoption of any hazard placarding  system,  communication
system  or  any other regulation or requirement, during which
any person engaged in the  use,  storage,  transportation  or
manufacture  of  hazardous  materials  or any local emergency
response  agency shall take the  necessary  steps  to  comply
with  such  hazard placarding system, communication system or
any other  regulation or requirement.  Copies of  any  hazard
placarding   systems,  communication  systems  or  any  other
regulation or requirement which is  adopted  shall  be  filed
with  the  Secretary  of  State and shall be available to the
public at a reasonable cost for the copying thereof.
(Source: P.A. 79-1442.)

    (430 ILCS 50/5.11 new)
    Sec. 5.11.  Units of  local  government;  hazard  signage
systems.
    (a)   A  unit of local government may adopt ordinances or
regulations  requiring a hazard signage system applicable  to
equipment,  facilities,  structures, or locations involved in
the use, storage, or manufacture  of    hazardous  materials.
The  hazard signage system (such as, but not limited  to, the
National Fire  Protection  Association  standard  "NFPA  704"
system   as    specified  in  its  Standard  System  for  the
Identification  of  the  Fire  Hazards  of    Materials   for
Emergency   Response)  shall  be  consistent  with  any  such
signage required by federal law or regulation.
    (b)  An ordinance or regulation  adopted  by  a  unit  of
local  government    under  this  Section  requiring a hazard
signage system may not take effect  sooner than 90 days after
its adoption by the unit of local government.
    (c)  A home rule unit may  not  regulate  hazard  signage
systems  in  a    manner  inconsistent with the regulation of
those systems by the State under  this Act or by the  federal
government.   This  Section is a limitation under  subsection
(i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois  Constitution
on  the  concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and
functions exercised  by the State.

    (430 ILCS 50/6) (from Ch. 127, par. 1256)
    Sec. 6.  It is  the  responsibility  of  any  person  who
leases,  operates  or  controls any facilities, or equipment,
structures,   or   locations   for    the    use,    storage,
transportation,  or  manufacture  of  hazardous  materials to
display  on  such  facility,  or  equipment,  structure,   or
location  appropriate hazard signage as described and in such
manner as provided by regulation promulgated by the Agency or
the Department pursuant to  Section  5  of  this  Act  or  as
provided  by  ordinance  or  regulation  adopted by a unit of
local government pursuant to Section 5.11.
(Source: P.A. 79-1442.)

    (430 ILCS 50/8) (from Ch. 127, par. 1258)
    Sec.  8.   Any  person  who  fails  to  comply  with  the
requirements of or violates any of the provisions of  Section
6  of  this  Act or the rules and regulations  promulgated by
the Agency or the Department pursuant to  those  Sections  or
who  fails to comply with the requirements of or violates any
of the provisions of an ordinance or regulation adopted by  a
unit  of  local government pursuant to Section 5.11, shall be
guilty of a Class C misdemeanor for the first  offense  or  a
Class B misdemeanor for second and subsequent offenses.
(Source: P.A. 81-384.)

    (430 ILCS 50/8.02) (from Ch. 127, par. 1258.02)
    Sec.  8.02.  The State's Attorney or the Attorney General
may, without  delay,  institute  an  action  in  a  court  of
competent  jurisdiction  for penalties authorized by this Act
as well as for other remedies, including  injunctive  relief,
that  are  necessary to restrain or remedy violations of this
Act It shall be the duty of each State's Attorney to whom any
violation is reported to cause appropriate proceedings to  be
instituted   and   prosecuted   in  a  court  of    competent
jurisdiction without delay, except that no prosecution may be
commenced   the   State's   Attorney   shall   not   commence
prosecutions under this Act against any defendant who, at the
time, is a defendant  with  regard  to  any  current  pending
complaint,  information  or  indictment  filed  by the United
States   for   violation   of   the   "Hazardous    Materials
Transportation  Act"  (PL  93-633)  if the federal complaint,
information or indictment is based on the same alleged action
or inaction  by  the  defendant  which  would  be  cause  for
prosecution under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 79-1442.)

    (430 ILCS 50/8.03) (from Ch. 127, par. 1258.03)
    Sec.   8.03.  Any  person  or  entity  who  violates  any
provision of this Act, or any ordinance, rule, regulation  or
order  made pursuant to this Act, shall be liable for a civil
penalty of not to exceed $10,000 for each violation,  and  an
additional civil penalty of not to exceed $1,000 for each day
during which violation continues.
(Source: P.A. 84-852.)

    (430 ILCS 50/5.02 rep.)
    Section  90.  The  Hazardous  Materials  Emergency Act is
amended by repealing Section 5.02.
    Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
becoming law.

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