SB3251 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB097 17985 JDS 63208 b

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB3251

Introduced 2/1/2012, by Sen. Mike Jacobs

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

415 ILCS 5/28.7 new

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency, in certain rulemakings before the Illinois Pollution Control Board, to include a statement of reasons that (i) assesses the differences between the Agency's proposed rule and other state and federal laws and (ii) analyzes the need for and reasonableness of each difference. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning safety.

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

Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by adding Section 28.7 as follows:

(415 ILCS 5/28.7 new)

Sec. 28.7. Agency rulemaking; statement of reasons. For any rulemaking proposal submitted to the Board by the Agency under Section 28 of this Act to adopt or amend standards for air quality, solid waste or hazardous waste, or water quality, the statement of reasons must include:

(1) an assessment of any differences between the proposed rule and:

(A) existing federal standards adopted under the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq., the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), or any successor Act, as applicable;

(B) similar standards in states bordering Illinois; and

(C) similar standards in states within the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5; and

(2) a specific analysis of the need for and reasonableness of each difference.

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