Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 611 - PRIMARY DRINKING WATER STANDARDS › Subpart G - LEAD AND COPPER › Section 611.362 - Monitoring for Lead in Schools and Child Care Facilities

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A CWS supplier must conduct directed public education and
				  lead monitoring at those schools and child care facilities it serves that were
				  constructed prior to January 1, 2014. A supplier must sample for lead at
				  elementary schools and child care facilities it serves once and afterwards on
				  request of the school or facility. The supplier must also sample for lead at
				  secondary schools it serves on request. This Section does not apply to a school
				  or child care facility that is a regulated PWS. This subsection (a) applies
				  until the supplier samples all the elementary schools and child care facilities
				  it serves once under subsection (c). After sampling all elementary schools and
				  child care facilities, the supplier must comply with subsection (g).
a) Public Education to Schools and Child Care
				Facilities
1) Before the compliance date
				Section 611.350(a)(3)
				specifies, a supplier must compile a list of schools and child care facilities
				the supplier serves.
2) A supplier
				must contact elementary schools and child care facilities the supplier listed
				under subsection (a)(1):
A) The supplier must
				annually or more frequently provide information about health risks from lead in
				drinking water that complies with Section
				611.355(a);
B) Notice that the supplier must sample for
				lead at elementary schools and child care facilities, including certain
				information:
i) A proposed schedule for
				sampling at the facility;
ii)
				Information about sampling for lead in schools and child care facilities; and
BOARD NOTE: USEPA has guidance available from USEPA, National
				  Center for Environmental Publications: "3Ts for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water
				  in Schools and Child Care Facilities: A Training, Testing, and Taking Action
				  Approach, Revised Manual" (October 2018), USEPA, Office of Water, doc. no. EPA
				  815-B-18-007 (search: "815B18007") and "U.S. EPA 3Ts Program Training, Testing
				  & Taking Action: Lead Sample Collection Field Guide for Schools and Child
				  Care Facilities" (July 2022), USEPA, Office of Water, doc. no. EPA 815-F-22-009
				  (search: "815F22009") or subsequent EPA guidance.
iii) Instructions for identifying sampling
				outlets and preparing for a sampling event 30 days prior to the
				event.
3) The
				supplier must document under Section
				611.360(i) if
				an elementary school or child care facility fails to respond or otherwise
				declines to participate in monitoring or education under this Section. Under
				this Section, a school or child care facility fails to respond after the
				supplier makes at least two separate good faith attempts to contact the
				facility to schedule sampling and receives no response.
4) The supplier must annually or more
				frequently contact all secondary schools it listed under subsection (a)(1) to
				provide information on health risks from lead in drinking water and how to
				request lead sampling under subsection (g)(1).