95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0111

 

Introduced 1/19/2007, by Rep. Lou Lang

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
415 ILCS 5/22   from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022

    Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning regulations.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning safety.
 
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 by
5 changing Section 22 as follows:
 
6     (415 ILCS 5/22)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022)
7     Sec. 22. In accord with Title VII of this Act, the the
8 Board may adopt regulations to promote the purposes of this
9 Title. Without limiting the generality of this authority, such
10 regulations may among other things prescribe the following:
11     (a) Standards for the location, design, construction,
12 sanitation, operation, maintenance, and discontinuance of the
13 operation of refuse collection and disposal, storage and
14 treatment sites and facilities and resource conservation and
15 recovery sites and facilities;
16     (b) Standards for the dumping of any refuse, and standards
17 for the handling, storing, processing, transporting and
18 disposal of any hazardous waste;
19     (c) Requirements and standards for the keeping of records
20 and the reporting and retaining of data collected by
21 generators, processors, storers, transporters, handlers,
22 treaters, and disposers of special or hazardous waste;
23     (d) Requirements and standards for equipment and

 

 

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1 procedures for monitoring contaminant discharges at their
2 source, the collection of samples and the collection, reporting
3 and retention of data resulting from such monitoring;
4     (e) Alert and abatement standards relative to land
5 pollution emergencies constituting an acute danger to health or
6 to the environment;
7     (f) Requirements and standards for adequate and proper care
8 and maintenance of, closure of, and post-closure monitoring,
9 maintenance and use of hazardous waste disposal sites;
10     (g) Requirements to prohibit the disposal of certain
11 hazardous wastes in sanitary landfills where, after regulatory
12 proceedings held in conformance with Title VII of this Act, it
13 is determined by the Board that the long term impacts to public
14 health and the environment are such that land burial should not
15 be allowed and where an economically reasonable, technically
16 feasible and environmentally sound alternative is available
17 for processing, recycling, fixation or neutralization of such
18 wastes. The agency shall participate in all such proceedings.
19 No such prohibition may become effective unless a specific
20 alternative technology meeting the criteria of this subsection
21 is identified by the Board. Nothing in this subsection shall
22 prohibit the land burial of any hazardous waste which is the
23 subject of review under this subsection until such time as a
24 final prohibition order is issued by the Board.
25 (Source: P.A. 83-425.)