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1    AN ACT concerning safety.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
4    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended  by 
5adding Section 22.59 as follows:
 
6    (415 ILCS 5/22.59 new)
7    Sec. 22.59. Pilot project for Will County and Grundy County 
8pyrolysis or gasification facility.
9    (a) As used in this Section:
10    "Plastics" means polystyrene or any other synthetic 
11organic polymer that can be molded into shape under heat and 
12pressure and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form.
13    "Plastics gasification facility" means a manufacturing 
14facility that:
15        (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have 
16    been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a 
17    feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a 
18    gasification feedstock; and
19        (2) uses heat in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere to 
20    process the feedstock into fuels, chemicals, or chemical 
21    feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in 
22    the form of raw materials or products. 
23    "Plastics pyrolysis facility" means a manufacturing 
 
 
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1facility that:
2        (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have 
3    been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a 
4    feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a 
5    pyrolysis feedstock; and
6        (2) uses heat in the absence of oxygen to process the 
7    uncontaminated plastics into fuels, chemicals, or chemical 
8    feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in 
9    the form of raw materials or products. 
10    (b) Provided that permitting and construction has 
11commenced prior to July 1, 2025, a pilot project allowing for a 
12pyrolysis or gasification facility in accordance with this 
13Section is permitted for a locally zoned and approved site in 
14either Will County or Grundy County. 
15    (c) To the extent allowed by federal law, uncontaminated 
16plastics that have been processed into a feedstock meeting 
17feedstock specifications for a plastics gasification facility 
18or plastics pyrolysis facility, and that are further processed 
19by such a facility and returned to the economic mainstream in 
20the form of raw materials or products, are considered recycled 
21and are not subject to regulation as waste.
22    (d) The Agency may propose to the Board for adoption, and 
23the Board may adopt, rules establishing standards for materials 
24accepted as feedstocks by plastics gasification facilities and 
25plastics pyrolysis facilities, rules establishing standards 
26for the management of feedstocks at plastics gasification 
 
 
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1facilities and plastics pyrolysis facilities, and any other 
2rules, as may be necessary to implement and administer this 
3Section. 
4    (e) If permitting and construction for the pilot project 
5under subsection (b) has not commenced by July 1, 2025, this 
6Section is repealed. 
 

7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 
82020.