95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0267


 
Introduced 1/19/2007, by Rep. Thomas Holbrook
 
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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    AN ACT concerning safety.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
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represented in the General Assembly: 


 
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    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by 
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changing Section 22 as follows:
 



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    (415 ILCS 5/22)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022)



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    Sec. 22. In accord with Title VII of this Act, the
the

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Board may adopt
regulations to promote the purposes of this 
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Title.  Without limiting the
generality of this authority, such 
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regulations may among other things
prescribe the following:
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    (a) Standards for the location, design, construction, 
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sanitation,
operation, maintenance, and discontinuance of the 
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operation of refuse
collection and disposal, storage and 
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treatment sites and facilities and
resource conservation and 
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recovery sites and facilities;

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    (b) Standards for the dumping of any refuse, and standards 
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for the
handling, storing, processing, transporting and 
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disposal of any
hazardous waste;

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    (c) Requirements and standards for the keeping of records 
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and the
reporting and retaining of data collected by 
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generators, processors,
storers, transporters, handlers, 
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treaters, and disposers of special or
hazardous waste;

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    (d) Requirements and standards for equipment and 
 


 






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procedures for
monitoring contaminant discharges at their 
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source, the collection of
samples and the collection, reporting 
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and retention of data resulting
from such monitoring;

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    (e) Alert and abatement standards relative to land 
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pollution
emergencies constituting an acute danger to health or 
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to the
environment;

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    (f) Requirements and standards for adequate and proper care 
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and
maintenance of, closure of, and post-closure monitoring, 
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maintenance and
use of hazardous waste disposal sites;

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    (g) Requirements to prohibit the disposal of certain 
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hazardous
wastes in sanitary landfills where, after regulatory 
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proceedings held in
conformance with Title VII of this Act, it 
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is determined by the Board that
the long term impacts to public 
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health and the environment are such that
land burial should not 
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be allowed and where an economically reasonable,
technically 
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feasible and environmentally sound alternative is available 
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for
processing, recycling, fixation or neutralization of such 
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wastes. The
agency shall participate in all such proceedings. 
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No such prohibition may
become effective unless a specific 
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alternative technology meeting the
criteria of this subsection 
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is identified by the Board. Nothing in this
subsection shall 
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prohibit the land burial of any hazardous waste which is
the 
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subject of review under this subsection until such time as a 
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final
prohibition order is issued by the Board.

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(Source: P.A. 83-425.)