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90_HB2415
415 ILCS 5/22 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022
Amends the Environmental Protection Act to make technical
changes in the Section concerning the adoption of
regulations.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Environmental Protection Act by
2 changing Section 22.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended
6 by changing Section 22 as follows:
7 (415 ILCS 5/22) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022)
8 Sec. 22. In accord with Title VII of this Act, the
9 Board may adopt regulations to promote the purposes of this
10 Title. Without limiting the generality of this authority,
11 these such regulations may among other things prescribe the
12 following:
13 (a) Standards for the location, design, construction,
14 sanitation, operation, maintenance, and discontinuance of the
15 operation of refuse collection and disposal, storage and
16 treatment sites and facilities and resource conservation and
17 recovery sites and facilities;
18 (b) Standards for the dumping of any refuse, and
19 standards for the handling, storing, processing, transporting
20 and disposal of any hazardous waste;
21 (c) Requirements and standards for the keeping of
22 records and the reporting and retaining of data collected by
23 generators, processors, storers, transporters, handlers,
24 treaters, and disposers of special or hazardous waste;
25 (d) Requirements and standards for equipment and
26 procedures for monitoring contaminant discharges at their
27 source, the collection of samples and the collection,
28 reporting, and retention of data resulting from that such
29 monitoring;
30 (e) Alert and abatement standards relative to land
31 pollution emergencies constituting an acute danger to health
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1 or to the environment;
2 (f) Requirements and standards for adequate and proper
3 care and maintenance of, closure of, and post-closure
4 monitoring, maintenance, and use of hazardous waste disposal
5 sites;
6 (g) Requirements to prohibit the disposal of certain
7 hazardous wastes in sanitary landfills where, after
8 regulatory proceedings held in conformance with Title VII of
9 this Act, it is determined by the Board that the long term
10 impacts to public health and the environment are such that
11 land burial should not be allowed and where an economically
12 reasonable, technically feasible, and environmentally sound
13 alternative is available for processing, recycling, fixation,
14 or neutralization of such wastes. The agency shall
15 participate in all such proceedings. No such prohibition may
16 become effective unless a specific alternative technology
17 meeting the criteria of this subsection is identified by the
18 Board. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the land
19 burial of any hazardous waste which is the subject of review
20 under this subsection until such time as a final prohibition
21 order is issued by the Board.
22 (Source: P.A. 83-425.)