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1    AN ACT concerning safety.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
5changing Sections 3.535 and 9.4 and by adding Sections 3.201,
63.202, 3.299, 3.336, 3.366, and 3.367 as follows:
 
7    (415 ILCS 5/3.201 new)
8    Sec. 3.201. Gasification. "Gasification" means a process
9through which nonrecycled feedstocks are heated and converted
10into a fuel-gas mixture in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere and
11the mixture is converted into fuels, including ethanol and
12transportation fuels, chemicals, or other chemical feedstocks.
13"Gasification" is not waste incineration or waste treatment.
 
14    (415 ILCS 5/3.202 new)
15    Sec. 3.202. Gasification facility. "Gasification facility"
16means a manufacturing facility that: (1) receives, separates,
17stores and converts post-use polymers and nonrecycled
18feedstocks using gasification; and (2) only receives materials
19that have been source separated off-site at least once before
20being received at the gasification facility. A "gasification
21facility" is not a pollution control facility, a solid waste
22treatment facility, or a solid waste incineration facility.
 

 

 

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1    (415 ILCS 5/3.299 new)
2    Sec. 3.299. Nonrecycled feedstocks. "Nonrecycled
3feedstocks" means one or more of the following materials,
4derived from nonrecycled waste, that has been processed so that
5it may be used as feedstock in a gasification facility:
6        (1) post-use polymers; and
7        (2) materials, including, but not limited to,
8    municipal solid waste that contains post-use polymers and
9    other post-industrial waste containing post-use polymers
10    that has been processed into a fuel or feedstock for which
11    the United States Environmental Protection Agency has made
12    a non-waste determination under 40 CFR 241.3(c) or
13    otherwise determined are not wastes or for which the Board
14    has made a non-waste determination.
 
15    (415 ILCS 5/3.336 new)
16    Sec. 3.336. Post-use polymers. "Post-use polymers" means
17plastic polymers that: (1) derive from any household,
18industrial, community, commercial, or other sources of
19operations or activities that might otherwise become a waste if
20not recycled or converted to manufacture crude oil, fuels, or
21other raw materials or intermediate or final products using
22pyrolysis or gasification; and (2) are not mixed with solid
23waste, infectious waste, hazardous waste, e-waste, tires, or
24construction demolition debris. "Post-use polymers" may

 

 

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1contain incidental contaminants or impurities such as paper
2labels or metal rings. "Post-use polymers" are not waste.
 
3    (415 ILCS 5/3.366 new)
4    Sec. 3.366. Pyrolysis. "Pyrolysis" means a manufacturing
5process through which post-use polymers are heated in the
6absence of oxygen until melted, and thermally decomposed, and
7are then cooled, condensed, and converted to:
8        (1) crude oil, diesel, gasoline, home heating oil, or
9    another fuel;
10        (2) feedstocks;
11        (3) diesel and gasoline blendstocks;
12        (4) chemicals, waxes, or lubricants; or
13        (5) other raw materials or intermediate or final
14    products.
15    "Pyrolysis" is not waste incineration or waste treatment.
 
16    (415 ILCS 5/3.367 new)
17    Sec. 3.367. Pyrolysis facility. "Pyrolysis facility" means
18a manufacturing facility that: (1) receives, separates,
19stores, and converts post-use polymers using pyrolysis; and (2)
20only receives materials that have been source separated
21off-site at least once before being received at the pyrolysis
22facility. A "pyrolysis facility" is not a pollution control
23facility, a solid waste treatment facility, or a solid waste
24incineration facility.
 

 

 

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1    (415 ILCS 5/3.535)  (was 415 ILCS 5/3.53)
2    Sec. 3.535. Waste. "Waste" means any garbage, sludge from
3a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air
4pollution control facility or other discarded material,
5including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous
6material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and
7agricultural operations, and from community activities, but
8does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic
9sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return
10flows, or coal combustion by-products as defined in Section
113.135, or post-use polymers or nonrecycled feedstocks
12processed through pyrolysis or gasification, provided that the
13materials have been source separated at least once before being
14received at the pyrolysis or gasification facility, or
15industrial discharges which are point sources subject to
16permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution
17Control Act, as now or hereafter amended, or source, special
18nuclear, or by-product materials as defined by the Atomic
19Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 921) or any solid or
20dissolved material from any facility subject to the Federal
21Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-87)
22or the rules and regulations thereunder or any law or rule or
23regulation adopted by the State of Illinois pursuant thereto.
24(Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
 

 

 

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1    (415 ILCS 5/9.4)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1009.4)
2    Sec. 9.4. Municipal waste incineration emission standards.
3    (a) The General Assembly finds:
4        (1) That air pollution from municipal waste
5    incineration may constitute a threat to public health,
6    welfare and the environment. The amounts and kinds of
7    pollutants depend on the nature of the waste stream,
8    operating conditions of the incinerator, and the
9    effectiveness of emission controls. Under normal operating
10    conditions, municipal waste incinerators produce
11    pollutants such as organic compounds, metallic compounds
12    and acid gases which may be a threat to public health,
13    welfare and the environment.
14        (2) That a combustion and flue-gas control system,
15    which is properly designed, operated and maintained, can
16    substantially reduce the emissions of organic materials,
17    metallic compounds and acid gases from municipal waste
18    incineration.
19    (b) It is the purpose of this Section to insure that
20emissions from new municipal waste incineration facilities
21which burn a total of 25 tons or more of municipal waste per
22day are adequately controlled.
23    Such facilities shall be subject to emissions limits and
24operating standards based upon the application of Best
25Available Control Technology, as determined by the Agency, for
26emissions of the following categories of pollutants:

 

 

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1        (1) particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen
2    oxides;
3        (2) acid gases;
4        (3) heavy metals; and
5        (4) organic materials.
6    (c) The Agency shall issue permits, pursuant to Section 39,
7to new municipal waste incineration facilities only if the
8Agency finds that such facilities are designed, constructed and
9operated so as to comply with the requirements prescribed by
10this Section.
11    Prior to adoption of Board regulations under subsection (d)
12of this Section the Agency may issue permits for the
13construction of new municipal waste incineration facilities.
14The Agency determination of Best Available Control Technology
15shall be based upon consideration of the specific pollutants
16named in subsection (d), and emissions of particulate matter,
17sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
18    Nothing in this Section shall limit the applicability of
19any other Sections of this Act, or of other standards or
20regulations adopted by the Board, to municipal waste
21incineration facilities. In issuing such permits, the Agency
22may prescribe those conditions necessary to assure continuing
23compliance with the emission limits and operating standards
24determined pursuant to subsection (b); such conditions may
25include the monitoring and reporting of emissions.
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1adopt regulations pursuant to Title VII of this Act, which
2define the terms in items (2), (3) and (4) of subsection (b) of
3this Section which are to be used by the Agency in making its
4determination pursuant to this Section. The provisions of
5Section 27(b) of this Act shall not apply to this rulemaking.
6    Such regulations shall be written so that the categories of
7pollutants include, but need not be limited to, the following
8specific pollutants:
9        (1) hydrogen chloride in the definition of acid gases;
10        (2) arsenic, cadmium, mercury, chromium, nickel and
11    lead in the definition of heavy metals; and
12        (3) polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated
13    dibenzofurans and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in the
14    definition of organic materials.
15    (e) For the purposes of this Section, the term "Best
16Available Control Technology" means an emission limitation
17(including a visible emission standard) based on the maximum
18degree of pollutant reduction which the Agency, on a
19case-by-case basis, taking into account energy, environmental
20and economic impacts, determines is achievable through the
21application of production processes or available methods,
22systems and techniques, including fuel cleaning or treatment or
23innovative fuel combustion techniques. If the Agency
24determines that technological or economic limitations on the
25application of measurement methodology to a particular class of
26sources would make the imposition of an emission standard not

 

 

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1feasible, it may instead prescribe a design, equipment, work
2practice or operational standard, or combination thereof, to
3require the application of best available control technology.
4Such standard shall, to the degree possible, set forth the
5emission reduction achievable by implementation of such
6design, equipment, work practice or operation and shall provide
7for compliance by means which achieve equivalent results.
8    (f) "Municipal waste incineration" means the burning of
9municipal waste or fuel derived therefrom in a combustion
10apparatus designed to burn municipal waste that may produce
11electricity or steam as a by-product. A "new municipal waste
12incinerator" is an incinerator initially permitted for
13development or construction after January 1, 1986. As used in
14this Section, "municipal waste" or "municipal waste or fuel
15derived therefrom" do not include: (i) post-use polymers or
16nonrecycled feedstocks that are converted into crude oil or
17refined into fuels or feedstocks using a pyrolysis or
18gasification process; and (ii) non-hazardous secondary
19material that is excluded from solid waste when used
20legitimately as a fuel or ingredient in a combustion unit in
21accordance with the standards and criteria set forth in 40 CFR
22241.
23    (g) The provisions of this Section shall not apply to
24industrial incineration facilities that burn waste generated
25at the same site.
26(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
 

 

 

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1    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2becoming law.