HB3881sam001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Don Harmon

Filed: 5/9/2012

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3881

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3881 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by adding Section 22.43a as follows:

(415 ILCS 5/22.43a new)

Sec. 22.43a. Establishment and expansion of landfills; ban in counties with more than 2,000,000 inhabitants.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall establish, nor shall the Agency issue a permit for the establishment of, a new municipal solid waste landfill unit or a new sanitary landfill in a county of more than 2,000,000 inhabitants on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall laterally expand, nor shall the Agency issue a permit for the lateral expansion of, a municipal solid waste landfill unit or the expansion of a sanitary landfill in a county of more than 2,000,000 inhabitants on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly.

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