Office of the City Clerk - Record #: R2018-417

• Record #: R2018-417
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 4/18/2018
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics
• Title: Call for hearing(s) on City compliance with federal Safe Water Drinking Act and Clean Water Act and protocols for lead testing and decontamination of water sources
• Sponsors: Taliaferro, Chris, Foulkes, Toni, Waguespack, Scott, King, Sophia D., Hairston, Leslie A., Sawyer, Roderick T., Sadlowski Garza, Susan, Moore, David H., Arena, John, Dowell, Pat, Osterman, Harry, Cardenas, George A., Mell, Deborah, Lopez, Raymond A., Napolitano, Anthony V., Reilly, Brendan
• Topic: COMMITTEE/PUBLIC HEARINGS - Committee on Health and Environmental Protection
• Related files: R2019-362

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/29/2019		City Council	Failed to Pass
5/29/2019		City Council	Failed to Pass
9/20/2018	84264	City Council	Re-Referred
9/20/2018		Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics	Add Co-Sponsor(s)
9/19/2018		Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics	Add Co-Sponsor(s)
9/19/2018		Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics	Recommended for Re-Referral
9/17/2018		Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics	Add Co-Sponsor(s)
4/18/2018	77133	City Council	Referred

MICHELLE A. HARRIS
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Chicago, Illinois 60602 Telephone: 312-744-3075
Michelle A. Harris Alderman, 8th Ward
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Reappointment of Zaid Abdul-Aleem and Daisy S. Lezama as members of Board of Ethics

A proposed resolution calling for a hearing on violations of the Safe Water
Drinking Act, the Clean Water Act and protocols for lead testing
(Item re-referred to Committee on Health and Environmental Protection)

begs leave to recommend that this Honorable Body approve the reappointment and pass said resolution which are transmitted herewith.

This recommendation was concurred in by a viva voce vote of the Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics.

Respectfully submitted,




Alderman Michelle A. Harris, Chairman Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics
Committee on Health and Environmental Protection
April 18, 2018 City Council Meeting

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the Safe Water Drinking Act, Title XIV ofthe Public Health Service Act, requires that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgate and administer water regulations for contaminants, including lead, in public water supplies; and

WHEREAS, Section 1413 of the Safe Water Drinking Act grant states primacy, or the authority of oversight and enforcement of the EPA's requirements, provided that the minimum standards and regulations set forth by the EPA are adopted and complied with as required by federal law; and

WHEREAS, the State of Illinois, the City of Chicago and its sister agencies are legally bound by the Safe Water Drinking Act and the EPA standards authorized within as the State of Illinois applied for and received primacy from the EPA, thu...