(430 ILCS 50/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 1254)
Sec. 4. There is hereby created a Hazardous Materials Advisory Board, composed of 21 members as follows: the Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, or his designee; the Director of Agriculture 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, 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 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.
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, 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, 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 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.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 90-449, eff. 8-16-97.)
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