Full Text of SB1508 99th General Assembly
SB1508 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 SB1508 Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Martin A. Sandoval SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 415 ILCS 5/3.335 | was 415 ILCS 5/3.27 | 415 ILCS 5/3.465 | was 415 ILCS 5/3.44 | 415 ILCS 5/3.535 | was 415 ILCS 5/3.53 | 415 ILCS 5/3.560 new | |
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that "pollution control waste", "sludge", and "waste" do not include exceptional quality biosolids. Defines "exceptional quality biosolids".
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning safety.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Sections 3.335, 3.465, and 3.535 and by adding Section | 6 | | 3.560 as follows:
| 7 | | (415 ILCS 5/3.335) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.27)
| 8 | | Sec. 3.335. Pollution control waste. "Pollution control | 9 | | waste"
means any liquid, solid, semi-solid or gaseous waste | 10 | | generated as a direct
or indirect result of the removal of | 11 | | contaminants from the air,
water or land, and which pose a | 12 | | present or potential threat
to human health or to the | 13 | | environment or with inherent
properties which make the disposal | 14 | | of such waste in a landfill
difficult to manage by normal | 15 | | means. "Pollution control waste"
includes but is not limited to | 16 | | water and wastewater treatment
plant sludges, baghouse dusts, | 17 | | landfill waste, scrubber sludges
and chemical spill cleanings. | 18 | | "Pollution control waste" does not include exceptional quality | 19 | | biosolids.
| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
| 21 | | (415 ILCS 5/3.465) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.44)
| 22 | | Sec. 3.465. Sludge. "Sludge" means any solid, semi-solid, |
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liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or | 2 | | industrial wastewater
treatment plant, water supply treatment | 3 | | plant, or air pollution control
facility or any other such | 4 | | waste having similar characteristics and effects. "Sludge" | 5 | | does not include exceptional quality biosolids.
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
| 7 | | (415 ILCS 5/3.535) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.53)
| 8 | | Sec. 3.535. Waste.
"Waste" means any garbage, sludge from | 9 | | a waste treatment plant,
water supply treatment plant, or air | 10 | | pollution control facility or other
discarded material, | 11 | | including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained
gaseous | 12 | | material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and
| 13 | | agricultural operations, and from community activities, but | 14 | | does not
include solid or dissolved material in domestic | 15 | | sewage, exceptional quality biosolids, or solid or
dissolved | 16 | | materials in irrigation return flows, or coal combustion
| 17 | | by-products as defined in Section 3.135, or industrial
| 18 | | discharges which are point sources subject to permits under | 19 | | Section
402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as now | 20 | | or hereafter
amended, or source, special nuclear, or by-product | 21 | | materials as
defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as | 22 | | amended (68 Stat. 921)
or any solid or dissolved material from | 23 | | any facility subject to
the Federal Surface Mining Control and | 24 | | Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L.
95-87) or the rules and | 25 | | regulations thereunder or any law or rule or
regulation adopted |
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| 1 | | by the State of Illinois pursuant thereto.
| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
| 3 | | (415 ILCS 5/3.560 new) | 4 | | Sec. 3.560. Exceptional quality biosolids. "Exceptional | 5 | | quality biosolids" means solids produced by advanced treatment | 6 | | of wastewater treatment plant sludge through stabilization and | 7 | | other processes to meet the following requirements of 40 C.F.R. | 8 | | Part 503: the pollutant concentrations in Table 3 of Section | 9 | | 503.13(b), the Class A pathogen requirements in Section 503.32, | 10 | | and one of the vector attraction requirements in Section | 11 | | 503.33(b)(1)-(8).
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