Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of SB3324

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB3324

Introduced 2/3/2026, by Sen. Adriane Johnson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

415 ILCS 5/7.5

from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1007.5

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. In provisions concerning filing fees collected by the Pollution Control Board, provides that the Board may amend the filing fees through a rulemaking proceeding under Title VII of the Act.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning safety.

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

Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by changing Section 7.5 as follows:

(415 ILCS 5/7.5) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1007.5)

Sec. 7.5. Filing fees.

(a) The Board shall collect filing fees as prescribed in this Act. The fees shall be deposited in the Pollution Control Board Fund. The filing fees shall be as follows:

Petition for site-specific regulation, $75.

Petition for variance, $75.

Petition for review of permit, $75.

Petition to contest local government decision pursuant to Section 40.1, $75.

Petition for an adjusted standard, pursuant to Section 28.1, $75.

Petition for a time-limited water quality standard, $75 per petitioner.

Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly, the Board may amend the filing fees through a rulemaking proceeding under Title VII of this Act.

(b) A person who has filed a petition for a variance from a water quality standard and paid the filing fee set forth in subsection (a) of this Section for that petition and whose variance petition is thereafter converted into a petition for a time-limited water quality standard under Section 38.5 of this Act shall not be required to pay a separate filing fee upon the conversion of the variance petition into a petition for a time-limited water quality standard.

(Source: P.A. 99-937, eff. 2-24-17.)