093_HB2542
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1 AN ACT concerning environmental protection.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended
5 by changing Section 22 as follows:
6 (415 ILCS 5/22) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022)
7 Sec. 22. Regulations. In accord with Title VII of this
8 Act, the Board may adopt regulations to promote the purposes
9 of this Title. Without limiting the generality of this
10 authority, such regulations may among other things prescribe
11 the following:
12 (a) Standards for the location, design, construction,
13 sanitation, operation, maintenance, and discontinuance of the
14 operation of refuse collection and disposal, storage and
15 treatment sites and facilities and resource conservation and
16 recovery sites and facilities;
17 (b) Standards for the dumping of any refuse, and
18 standards for the handling, storing, processing, transporting
19 and disposal of any hazardous waste;
20 (c) Requirements and standards for the keeping of
21 records and the reporting and retaining of data collected by
22 generators, processors, storers, transporters, handlers,
23 treaters, and disposers of special or hazardous waste;
24 (d) Requirements and standards for equipment and
25 procedures for monitoring contaminant discharges at their
26 source, the collection of samples and the collection,
27 reporting and retention of data resulting from such
28 monitoring;
29 (e) Alert and abatement standards relative to land
30 pollution emergencies constituting an acute danger to health
31 or to the environment;
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1 (f) Requirements and standards for adequate and proper
2 care and maintenance of, closure of, and post-closure
3 monitoring, maintenance and use of hazardous waste disposal
4 sites;
5 (g) Requirements to prohibit the disposal of certain
6 hazardous wastes in sanitary landfills where, after
7 regulatory proceedings held in conformance with Title VII of
8 this Act, it is determined by the Board that the long term
9 impacts to public health and the environment are such that
10 land burial should not be allowed and where an economically
11 reasonable, technically feasible and environmentally sound
12 alternative is available for processing, recycling, fixation
13 or neutralization of such wastes. The agency shall
14 participate in all such proceedings. No such prohibition may
15 become effective unless a specific alternative technology
16 meeting the criteria of this subsection is identified by the
17 Board. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the land
18 burial of any hazardous waste which is the subject of review
19 under this subsection until such time as a final prohibition
20 order is issued by the Board.
21 (Source: P.A. 83-425.)