Illinois § 11

§ 11.

MSDS. (a) The owner or operator of any facility which is required to prepare or have available a material safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and regulations promulgated under that Act (15 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) shall, in accordance with the threshold levels for reporting established by regulations promulgated under the Federal Act, submit a material safety data sheet for each such chemical, or a list of such chemicals as described in subsection (b), to each of the following: (1) the appropriate local emergency planning committee; (2) the State Emergency Response Commission; and (3) the fire department with jurisdiction over the facility. (b) The list of chemicals referred to in subsection (a) shall include all of the following: (1) A list of the hazardous chemicals for which a material safety data sheet is required under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and regulations promulgated under that Act, grouped in categories of health and physical hazards as set forth under such Act and regulations promulgated under such Act, or in such other categories as the Administrator may prescribe. (2) The chemical name or the common name of each such chemical as provided on the material safety data sheet. (3) Any hazardous component of each such chemical as provided on the material safety data sheet. (c) An owner or operator may meet the requirements of this Section with respect to a hazardous chemical which is a mixture by doing one of the following: (1) Submitting a material safety data sheet for, or identifying on a list, each element or compound in the mixture which is a hazardous chemical. If more than one mixture has the same element or compound, only one material safety data sheet, or one listing, of the element or compound is necessary; or (2) Submitting a material safety data sheet for, or identifying on a list, the mixture itself. (d) Beginning 90 days after the effective date of this Act, it shall be a violation of this Section for the owner or operator of a facility subject to the requirements of this Section to fail to submit an MSDS form as required by Section 311(d) of the Federal Act, or within 3 months of the date the owner or operator is required to prepare or have available a MSDS for the chemical under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and regulations promulgated under that Act. (e) Within 3 months following discovery by an owner or operator of significant new information concerning an aspect of a hazardous chemical for which a material safety data sheet was previously submitted to the local emergency planning committee under subsection (a), a revised sheet shall be provided to such person. (Source: P.A. 86-449.)