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Full Text of HB4135 100th General Assembly

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HB4135enr 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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1     AN ACT concerning State government.

2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:

4     Section 5. The Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Task Force
5 Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:

6     (20 ILCS 5120/10)
7     (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2019)
8     Sec. 10. The FGD Task Force.
9     (a) The FGD Task Force is hereby created to increase the
10 amount of Illinois Basin coal use in generation units. The FGD
11 Task Force shall identify and evaluate the costs, benefits, and
12 barriers of new and modified FGD, or other post-combustion
13 sulfur dioxide emission control technologies, and other
14 capital improvements, that would be necessary for generation
15 units to comply with the sulfur dioxide National Ambient Air
16 Quality Standards (NAAQS) while improving the ability of those
17 generation units to meet the effluent limitation guidelines
18 (ELGs) for wastewater discharges and enhancing the
19 marketability of the generation units' FGD byproducts.
20     (b) The membership of the Task Force shall be as follows:
21         (1) Two members of the Senate appointed by the
22     President of the Senate.
23         (2) Two members of the Senate appointed by the Minority

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1     Leader of the Senate.
2         (3) Two members of the House of appointed by the
3     Speaker of the House of Representatives.
4         (4) Two members of the House of Representatives
5     appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of
6     Representatives.
7         (5) Three members appointed by the Governor, two with
8     expertise in Illinois coal, coal mining, emission
9     reduction, or energy production; and one representative of
10     an electricity generator that owns multiple coal-fueled
11     electric generation plants with FGD or similar
12     technologies.
13         (6) The Director of Natural Resources, or his or her
14     designee.
15         (7) The Director of the Environmental Protection
16     Agency, or his or her designee.
17     (c) Task Force members shall serve without compensation but
18 shall be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred in performing
19 their duties.
20     (d) The Task Force shall report their findings and
21 recommendations to the General Assembly by December 31, 2018
22 ~~2017~~.
23 (Source: P.A. 100-499, eff. 9-8-17.)

24     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.

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