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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3429
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 3429 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended
5 by changing Section 22 as follows:
6 (415 ILCS 5/22) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022)
7 Sec. 22. Regulations. In accord with Title VII of this
8 Act, the Board may adopt regulations to promote the purposes
9 of this Title. Without limiting the generality of this
10 authority, such regulations may among other things prescribe
11 the following:
12 (a) Standards for the location, design, construction,
13 sanitation, operation, maintenance, and discontinuance of the
14 operation of refuse collection and disposal, storage and
15 treatment sites and facilities and resource conservation and
16 recovery sites and facilities;
17 (b) Standards for the dumping of any refuse, and
18 standards for the handling, storing, processing, transporting
19 and disposal of any hazardous waste;
20 (c) Requirements and standards for the keeping of
21 records and the reporting and retaining of data collected by
22 generators, processors, storers, transporters, handlers,
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1 treaters, and disposers of special or hazardous waste;
2 (d) Requirements and standards for equipment and
3 procedures for monitoring contaminant discharges at their
4 source, the collection of samples and the collection,
5 reporting and retention of data resulting from such
6 monitoring;
7 (e) Alert and abatement standards relative to land
8 pollution emergencies constituting an acute danger to health
9 or to the environment;
10 (f) Requirements and standards for adequate and proper
11 care and maintenance of, closure of, and post-closure
12 monitoring, maintenance and use of hazardous waste disposal
13 sites;
14 (g) Requirements to prohibit the disposal of certain
15 hazardous wastes in sanitary landfills where, after
16 regulatory proceedings held in conformance with Title VII of
17 this Act, it is determined by the Board that the long term
18 impacts to public health and the environment are such that
19 land burial should not be allowed and where an economically
20 reasonable, technically feasible and environmentally sound
21 alternative is available for processing, recycling, fixation
22 or neutralization of such wastes. The agency shall
23 participate in all such proceedings. No such prohibition may
24 become effective unless a specific alternative technology
25 meeting the criteria of this subsection is identified by the
26 Board. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the land
27 burial of any hazardous waste which is the subject of review
28 under this subsection until such time as a final prohibition
29 order is issued by the Board.
30 (Source: P.A. 83-425.)".