HB3507 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB3507

Introduced 2/28/2007, by Rep. Robert W. Pritchard

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 689/15

Amends the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act. To be eligible for a grant, requires a cellulosic ethanol plant to have a capacity of no less than 20,000,000 gallons per year (instead of 30,000,000). Effective immediately.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:

(20 ILCS 689/15)

Sec. 15. Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program.

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

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

(2) be constructing, modifying, altering, or retrofitting a plant that has annual production capacity (i) of no less than 20,000,000 gallons of renewable fuel per year if it is a cellulosic ethanol plant or (ii) of no less than 30,000,000 gallons of renewable fuel per year for a plant other than a cellulosic ethanol plant; and

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

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

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

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

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