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Sen. Christopher Belt
Filed: 3/3/2026
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3660
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3660 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Radioactive Waste Storage Act is amended |
| 5 | | by changing Section 6 as follows:
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| 6 | | (420 ILCS 35/6) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 230.6) |
| 7 | | Sec. 6. Radioactive waste sites; acquisition and funding |
| 8 | | of maintenance. |
| 9 | | (a) It is recognized by the General Assembly that any site |
| 10 | | used for the concentration and storage of radioactive waste |
| 11 | | material will represent a continuing and perpetual |
| 12 | | responsibility in the interests of the public health, safety |
| 13 | | and general welfare, and that the same must ultimately be |
| 14 | | reposed in a sovereign government without regard for the |
| 15 | | existence or nonexistence of any particular agency, |
| 16 | | instrumentality, department, division or officer thereof. In |
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| 1 | | all instances lands, buildings and grounds which are to be |
| 2 | | designated as sites for the concentration and storage of |
| 3 | | radioactive waste materials shall be acquired in fee simple |
| 4 | | absolute and dedicated in perpetuity to such purpose. All |
| 5 | | rights, title and interest in, of, and to any radioactive |
| 6 | | waste materials accepted by IEMA-OHS the Agency for permanent |
| 7 | | storage at such facilities, shall upon acceptance become the |
| 8 | | property of the State and shall be in all respects |
| 9 | | administered, controlled, and disposed of, including transfer |
| 10 | | by sale, lease, loan or otherwise, by IEMA-OHS the Agency in |
| 11 | | the name of the State. All fees received pursuant to contracts |
| 12 | | or agreements entered into by IEMA-OHS the Agency shall be |
| 13 | | deposited in the State Treasury and shall be set apart in a |
| 14 | | special fund to be known as the "Low-Level Radioactive Waste |
| 15 | | Facility Operation Radioactive Waste Site Perpetual Care |
| 16 | | Fund". Moneys Monies deposited into in the Low-Level |
| 17 | | Radioactive Waste Facility Operation Fund fund shall be |
| 18 | | expended by IEMA-OHS the Agency to monitor and maintain the |
| 19 | | site as required to protect the public health and safety on a |
| 20 | | continuing and perpetual basis. |
| 21 | | (b) All payments received by IEMA-OHS (formerly the |
| 22 | | Department of Nuclear Safety) the Department of Nuclear Safety |
| 23 | | (now the Agency) pursuant to the settlement agreement entered |
| 24 | | May 25, 1988, in the matter of the People of the State of |
| 25 | | Illinois, et al. v. Teledyne, Inc., et al. (No. 78 MR 25, |
| 26 | | Circuit Court, Bureau County, Illinois) shall be held in the |
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| 1 | | Sheffield February 1982 Agreed Order Fund by the State |
| 2 | | Treasurer separate and apart from all public moneys or funds |
| 3 | | of the State, and shall be used only as provided in such |
| 4 | | settlement agreement. Interest earned by the investment or |
| 5 | | deposit of moneys accumulated in the Sheffield February 1982 |
| 6 | | Agreed Order Fund shall be deposited into the Sheffield |
| 7 | | February 1982 Agreed Order Fund for the continued maintenance |
| 8 | | of the Sheffield Low-Level Radioactive Waste Site and the |
| 9 | | surrounding buffer zone to protect the public health and |
| 10 | | safety on a continuing and perpetual basis. |
| 11 | | (Source: P.A. 103-569, eff. 6-1-24.)
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| 12 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 13 | | becoming law.". |