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| 1 | AN ACT concerning safety.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Fund Act is amended by changing Sections 10 as follows:
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| 6 | (415 ILCS 135/10)
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| 7 | Sec. 10. Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund.
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| 8 | (a) The Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | created as a
special fund in the State Treasury.
Moneys | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | deposited into the Fund shall be used by the Agency
for the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | purposes of
this Act.
The Fund shall include moneys credited | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | to the Fund under this Act
and other moneys that by law may be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | credited to the Fund.
The State Treasurer may invest moneys | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | deposited into
the Fund. Interest, income from the
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| 15 | investments, and other income earned by the Fund shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | credited to and
deposited into the Fund.
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| 17 | The Fund may be divided into different accounts with | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | different
depositories to fulfill the purposes of the Act.
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| 19 | Moneys in the Fund at the end of a State fiscal year
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| 20 | be carried forward to the next fiscal year and shall not revert | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | to
the General Revenue Fund.
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| 22 | Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund is not subject to | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | sweeps, administrative charge-backs, or any other fiscal | ||||||
| 2 | maneuver that would in any way transfer any amounts from the | ||||||
| 3 | Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund into any other | ||||||
| 4 | fund of the State. | ||||||
| 5 | (b) The specific purposes of the Fund include, but are not | ||||||
| 6 | limited to,
the following:
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| 7 | (1) To establish an account to fund remedial action of | ||||||
| 8 | drycleaning
solvent releases from drycleaning facilities | ||||||
| 9 | as provided by
Section 40.
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| 10 | (2) To establish an insurance account for insuring | ||||||
| 11 | environmental risks
from releases from drycleaning | ||||||
| 12 | facilities within this State as
provided by Section 45.
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| 13 | (c) The State, the General Revenue Fund, and any other | ||||||
| 14 | Fund of
the
State, other than the Drycleaner Environmental | ||||||
| 15 | Response Trust Fund, shall not
be
liable for a claim or cause | ||||||
| 16 | of action in connection with a drycleaning facility
not owned | ||||||
| 17 | or operated by the State or an agency of the State. All | ||||||
| 18 | expenses
incurred by the Fund shall be payable solely from the | ||||||
| 19 | Fund and
no liability or obligation shall be imposed upon the | ||||||
| 20 | State. The State is not
liable for a claim presented against | ||||||
| 21 | the Fund.
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| 22 | (d) The liability of the Fund is limited to the extent of | ||||||
| 23 | coverage provided
by the account under which a claim is | ||||||
| 24 | submitted, subject to the terms and
conditions of that | ||||||
| 25 | coverage. The liability of the Fund is further limited by
the | ||||||
| 26 | moneys made available to the Fund, and no remedy shall be | ||||||
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| 1 | ordered
that would require the Fund to exceed its then current | ||||||
| 2 | funding limitations
to satisfy an award or which would | ||||||
| 3 | restrict the availability of moneys for
higher priority sites.
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| 4 | (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit, | ||||||
| 5 | restrict, or affect the
authority and powers of the Agency or | ||||||
| 6 | another State agency or statute unless
the
State agency or | ||||||
| 7 | statute is specifically referenced and the limitation is
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| 8 | clearly set forth in this Act.
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| 9 | (f) During each fiscal year, the Agency shall limit its | ||||||
| 10 | administration of the Fund to no more $600,000 in | ||||||
| 11 | administrative expenses. The limitation in this subsection (f) | ||||||
| 12 | does not apply to costs incurred by the Agency in: | ||||||
| 13 | (1) reviewing remedial action under Title XVII of the | ||||||
| 14 | Environmental Protection Act; or | ||||||
| 15 | (2) performing investigative or remedial actions. | ||||||
| 16 | (Source: P.A. 101-400, eff. 7-1-20.)
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| 17 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 18 | becoming law.
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