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90_HB3522

      415 ILCS 5/22.22          from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022.22
          Amends  the  Environmental  Protection   Act.   Makes   a
      technical change in a Section concerning landscape waste.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Environmental  Protection Act by
 2    changing Section 22.22.
 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 22.22 as follows:
 7        (415 ILCS 5/22.22) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022.22)
 8        Sec. 22.22.  Landscape waste.
 9        (a)  Beginning July 1, 1990, no person may knowingly  mix
10    landscape  waste  that  is  intended  for  collection  or for
11    disposal at a landfill with any other municipal waste.
12        (b)  Beginning July 1, 1990, no person may knowingly  put
13    landscape  waste  into a container intended for collection or
14    disposal  at  a  landfill,  unless  the  such  container   is
15    biodegradable.
16        (c)  Beginning  July  1,  1990, no owner or operator of a
17    sanitary landfill shall  accept  landscape  waste  for  final
18    disposal,   except   that   landscape  waste  separated  from
19    municipal waste may be accepted by a sanitary landfill if (1)
20    the landfill provides and maintains for that purpose separate
21    landscape  waste  composting  facilities  and  composts   all
22    landscape  waste, and (2) the composted waste is utilized, by
23    the operators of the landfill or by any other person, as part
24    of the final vegetative cover for the landfill  or  for  such
25    other uses as soil conditioning material, or the landfill has
26    received  an  Agency  permit  to  use  source  separated  and
27    processed  landscape  waste as an alternative daily cover and
28    the landscape waste is processed at a site,  other  than  the
29    sanitary  landfill, that has received an Agency permit before
30    the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 to  process
31    landscape  waste.   For purposes of this Section, (i) "source
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 1    separated" means divided into  its  component  parts  at  the
 2    point of generation and collected separately from other solid
 3    waste and (ii) "processed" means shredded by mechanical means
 4    to reduce the landscape waste to a uniform consistency.
 5        (d)  The requirements of this Section shall not apply (i)
 6    to  landscape  waste  collected as part of a municipal street
 7    sweeping operation where the  intent  is  to  provide  street
 8    sweeping  service  rather  than  leaf collection, nor (ii) to
 9    landscape waste collected by  bar  screens  or  grates  in  a
10    sewage treatment system.
11    (Source: P.A. 90-266, eff. 7-30-97.)

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