95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1551


 
Introduced 2/22/2007, by Rep. Jack D. Franks
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














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    Amends the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act. Provides that a grant recipient must be constructing, modifying, altering, or retrofitting a plant that has annual production capacity of no less than 5,000,000 (now, 30,000,000) gallons of renewable fuel per year.
















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    AN ACT concerning renewable fuels.

 
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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 Illinois Renewable Fuels Development 
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Program Act is amended  by changing Section 15 as follows:
 



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    (20 ILCS 689/15)



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    Sec. 15. Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program. 

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    (a) The Department must develop and administer the Illinois 
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Renewable Fuels
Development Program to assist in the 
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construction, modification, alteration, or
retrofitting of 
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renewable fuel plants in Illinois.
The recipient of a grant 
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under
this Section
must:


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        (1) be constructing, modifying, altering, or 
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    retrofitting a plant in the
State
of Illinois;


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        (2) be constructing, modifying, altering, or 
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    retrofitting a plant that has
annual production capacity of 
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    no less than 5,000,000
30,000,000 gallons of renewable fuel

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    per year; and


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        (3) enter into a project labor agreement as prescribed 
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    by Section 25 of
this
Act.

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    (b) Grant applications must be made on forms provided by 
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and in accordance
with
procedures established by the 
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Department.

 


 






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    (c) The Department must give preference to applicants that 
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use Illinois
agricultural products in the production of 
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renewable fuel at the plant for
which the
grant is being 
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requested.

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(Source: P.A. 93-15, eff. 6-11-03.)