The IEMA shall adopt regulations that specify coordination that shall take place between business and local emergency response agencies and other emergency response entities. The regulations shall, at a minimum:

1. (1) Identify the categories and geographical jurisdiction of local emergency response agencies in the State.
2. (2) Specify minimum requirements and procedures for communicating and coordinating with local emergency response agencies and other emergency response entities, including hospitals, police, and fire authorities.
3. (3) Prescribe the forms and procedures for providing notices to IEMA under subsection (d) of Section 4 of this Act.
4. (4) Establish procedures for notifying a 24 hour local emergency agency and residents of an affected geographical area within 48 hours of a significant release being reported to IEMA or any other reported release that IEMA determines to be of a sufficiently hazardous nature to warrant notification of a local emergency agency and nearby residents within the 48 hour time period.

(from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 955)

(Source: P.A. 87-168.)