(415 ILCS 52/15) (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2044)
Sec. 15. PFAS Wastewater Citizen Protection Committee. (a) The PFAS Wastewater Citizen Protection Committee is created within the Agency for the purposes of: (1) monitoring developments and reviewing data related to PFAS, PFAS regulation, and PFAS elimination and mitigation technology for wastewater treatment systems; (2) determining how to best implement the findings and policy in Section 5 of this Act, including in relation to federal statutes and regulations; (3) determining the range of options to mitigate the presence of PFAS, including, if necessary, costs to install treatment technology to reduce PFAS in wastewater treatment systems and costs for PFAS sampling, analysis, research, monitoring, and record keeping; (4) determining how to offset the costs to wastewater agencies needed to install PFAS elimination and mitigation technology in wastewater treatment systems by identifying all potential sources of funding, including indirect discharge fees, State and federal funding, and manufacturers and commercial and industrial users of PFAS; (5) making recommendations regarding policies, including legislation and rulemaking, necessary to implement the findings and policy in Section 5 of this Act; and (6) making recommendations regarding the funding of elimination and mitigation technology for wastewater treatment systems and recovering taxpayer and customer costs for PFAS. (b) No later than one year after the effective date of this Act, the Committee shall issue a report containing a PFAS Action Plan based on the purposes stated in subsection (a) of this Section. The report shall be submitted to the Governor's Office, the General Assembly, and the Agency. (c) The Committee shall monitor the status of and, if necessary, advocate for the execution of the PFAS Action Plan submitted with its report under subsection (b) of this Section. (d) The Committee shall continue to periodically meet after submittal of the PFAS Action Plan under subsection (b) of this Section. The Committee shall annually update the PFAS Action Plan, and shall submit a report annually to the Governor's Office, the General Assembly, and the Agency with any updates to the PFAS Action Plan and a summary of: (1) the latest developments in related science and technology, as well as the latest developments in approaches to PFAS elimination and mitigation in wastewater; (2) any updated policy recommendations the Committee feels necessary to implement the findings and policy in Section 5 of this Act; (3) any cost updates for addressing any policy recommendations the Committee feels necessary to implement the findings and policy in Section 5 of this Act; and (4) any updated developments or recommendations regarding the identification of potential sources of funding to offset the costs to wastewater agencies. (Source: P.A. 104-838, eff. 8-21-26.)