a) This Part satisfies the mandate in Section 17.5 of the Environmental Protection
Act (
Act) requiring the
Board to adopt regulations that are identical in substance with federal regulations the United States Environmental Protection
Agency (
USEPA) adopted under Sections 1412(b), 1414(c), 1417(a), and 1445(a) of the
Safe Drinking Water Act (
SDWA) (42 U.S.C.
300g-1(b),
300g-3(c),
300g-6(a), and
300j-4(a)).
b) This Part establishes primary drinking water regulations (NPDWRs) under
SDWA. This Part also includes additional State requirements that are consistent with and more stringent than the
USEPA regulations (Section 7.2(a)(6) of the
Act). The
Board marked the latter provisions as "additional State requirements". These additional State requirements apply only to CWSs.
BOARD NOTE: This subsection (b) derives from 40 CFR 141.1.
c) This Part applies to suppliers, owners and operators of PWSs, and persons affecting the quality of water the public consumes from suppliers or PWSs. PWSs include CWSs, non-CWSs, and NTNCWSs, as Section
611.101 defines these terms.
1) A
CWS must obtain a permit from the Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency (
Agency) under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
602.
2) A
non-CWS supplier is subject to additional rules of the Illinois Department of
Public Health (
Public Health or
DPH) under Section 9 of the Illinois Groundwater Protection
Act [
415 ILCS 55/9 ], including 77 Ill. Adm. Code
900.
3) A non-CWS supplier needs not obtain a permit or other approval from the Agency or file reports or other documents with the Agency. Any provision in this Part requiring a non-CWS supplier to obtain a permit or approval or file reports or other documents requires the non-CWS supplier to obtain the comparable form of permit or approval from or file the comparable report or other document with Public Health.
4) Any
person introducing pipes, pipe or plumbing fittings, or fixtures, solder, or flux into commerce or installing or repairing a
facility providing water for human consumption using these items must comply with Section
611.126.
BOARD NOTE: Section 611.126, requiring lead-free pipes, fittings, fixtures, solder, and flux for drinking water, applies to persons other than suppliers and PWSs.
d) This Part applies to a
PWS, unless the
PWS meets these conditions:
1) The PWS consists only of distribution and storage facilities (and does not have any collection and treatment facilities);
2) The
PWS obtains all of its water from but is not owned or operated by a
supplier to which apply this Part, 40 CFR
141, or the comparable rules of a sister state that
USEPA authorized under 40 CFR
142 ;
3) The PWS does not sell water to any person; and
4) The PWS is not a carrier conveying passengers in interstate commerce.