HB3819ham001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Michael W. Tryon

Filed: 3/18/2015

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3819

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3819 on page 25, immediately below line 12, by inserting the following:

"Section 5. The Uniform Environmental Covenants Act is amended by changing Sections 2 and 11 as follows:

(765 ILCS 122/2)

Sec. 2. Definitions. In this Act:

(1) "Activity and use limitations" means restrictions or obligations created under this Act with respect to real property.

(2) "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency or any other State or federal agency that determines or approves the environmental response project pursuant to which the environmental covenant is created.

"Board" means the Pollution Control Board established by the Environmental Protection Act.

(3) "Common interest community" means a condominium, cooperative, or other real property with respect to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a parcel of real property, is obligated to pay property taxes or insurance premiums, or for maintenance, or improvement of other real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community.

(4) "Environmental covenant" means a servitude that (i) arises arising under an environmental response project or under a court or Board order and (ii) that imposes activity and use limitations.

(5) "Environmental response project" means a plan or work that is:

(1) approved or overseen by an agency; and

(2) performed for environmental remediation of any site or facility in response to contamination at any one or more of real property at the following sites or facilities:

(A) all sites or facilities that are listed as proposed or final on the National Priorities List pursuant to Section 105 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.);

(B) all sites or facilities undergoing remediation pursuant to an administrative order issued pursuant to Section 106 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.);

(C) all sites or facilities that are or were formerly owned or operated by a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States that are undergoing remediation pursuant to Section 120 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.);

(D) all sites or facilities undergoing remediation pursuant to a settlement agreement pursuant to Section 122 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.);

(E) all sites or facilities undergoing remediation pursuant to Section 3008(h) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.);

(F) all sites or facilities undergoing remediation pursuant to Section 7003 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.); or

(G) all sites or facilities undergoing remediation pursuant to a court or Board board order issued pursuant to the Illinois Environmental Protection Act (415 ILCS 5/1 et seq.) with the approval of the Agency; or .

(H) sites or facilities undergoing remediation pursuant to a Compliance Commitment Agreement entered into under Section 31 of the Environmental Protection Act.

(6) "Holder" means the grantee of an environmental covenant as specified in Section 3(a).

(7) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.

(8) "Prior interest" means a preceding or senior interest, in time or in right, that is recorded with respect to the real property, including but not limited to a mortgage, easement, or other interest, lien, or encumbrance predating the recording of an environmental covenant.

(9) "Record", used as a noun, means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

(10) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

(Source: P.A. 95-845, eff. 1-1-09.)

(765 ILCS 122/11)

Sec. 11. Enforcement of environmental covenant.

(a) A civil action for injunctive or other equitable relief for violation of an environmental covenant may be maintained by:

(1) A party to the covenant.

(2) The agency or, if it is not the agency, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

(3) Any person to whom the covenant expressly grants power to enforce.

(4) A person whose interest in the real property or whose collateral or liability may be affected by the alleged violation of the covenant.

(5) A municipality or other unit of local government in which the real property subject to the covenant is located.

(6) Any agency that is enforcing the terms of any court or Board order.

(b) This Act does not limit the regulatory authority of the agency or the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency under law other than this Act with respect to an environmental response project.

(c) A person is not responsible for or subject to liability for environmental remediation solely because it has the right to enforce an environmental covenant.

(Source: P.A. 95-845, eff. 1-1-09.)".