Full Text of HB2569 103rd General Assembly
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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 Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
| 6 | | (415 ILCS 20/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7053)
| 7 | | Sec. 3. State agency materials recycling program.
| 8 | | (a) All State agencies and local governments shall | 9 | | consider whether compost products can be used in the land | 10 | | maintenance activity project when soliciting and reviewing | 11 | | bids for land maintenance activity projects. If compost | 12 | | products can be used in the project, the State agency or local | 13 | | government must use compost products unless the compost | 14 | | products: responsible for the maintenance of public lands in
| 15 | | the State shall, to the maximum extent feasible, use compost | 16 | | materials in all land maintenance
activities which are to be | 17 | | paid with public funds. | 18 | | (1) are not available within a reasonable period of | 19 | | time; | 20 | | (2) do not comply with existing purchasing standards; | 21 | | or | 22 | | (3) do not comply with federal or State health and | 23 | | safety standards. |
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| 1 | | Beginning January 1, 2024, the Department of | 2 | | Transportation shall report each year to the General Assembly: | 3 | | (i) the volume of compost used in State highway | 4 | | construction projects; | 5 | | (ii) the status of compost and compost-based products | 6 | | used in State highway construction projects; and | 7 | | (iii) recommendations to maximize the use of compost | 8 | | as a recycled material in State highway construction | 9 | | projects. | 10 | | State agencies and local governments are encouraged to | 11 | | give priority to purchasing compost products from companies | 12 | | that produce compost products locally, are certified by a | 13 | | nationally recognized organization, and produce compost | 14 | | products that are derived from municipal solid waste compost | 15 | | programs.
| 16 | | (a-5) All State agencies responsible for the maintenance | 17 | | of public lands in the State shall review its procurement | 18 | | specifications and policies to determine (1) if incorporating | 19 | | compost materials will help reduce stormwater run-off and | 20 | | increase infiltration of moisture in land maintenance | 21 | | activities and (2) the current recycled content usage and | 22 | | potential for additional recycled content usage by the Agency | 23 | | in land maintenance activities and report to the General | 24 | | Assembly by December 15, 2015. | 25 | | (b) The Department of Central Management Services, in | 26 | | coordination
with the Agency, shall implement
waste reduction |
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| 1 | | programs, including source separation and collection, for
| 2 | | office wastepaper, corrugated containers, newsprint and mixed | 3 | | paper, in all
State buildings as appropriate and feasible. | 4 | | Such waste reduction programs
shall be designed to achieve | 5 | | waste reductions of at least 25% of
all such waste by December | 6 | | 31, 1995, and at least 50% of all such waste by
December 31, | 7 | | 2000. Any source separation and collection program
shall | 8 | | include, at a minimum, procedures for collecting and storing
| 9 | | recyclable materials, bins or containers for storing | 10 | | materials, and
contractual or other arrangements with buyers | 11 | | of recyclable materials. If
market conditions so warrant, the | 12 | | Department of Central Management
Services, in coordination | 13 | | with the Agency, may modify programs developed pursuant to | 14 | | this Section.
| 15 | | The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (now | 16 | | Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) shall conduct | 17 | | waste
categorization studies of all State facilities for | 18 | | calendar years 1991,
1995 and 2000. Such studies shall be | 19 | | designed to assist the Department of
Central Management | 20 | | Services to achieve the waste reduction goals
established in | 21 | | this subsection.
| 22 | | (c) Each State agency shall, upon consultation with the | 23 | | Agency,
periodically review its procurement procedures and | 24 | | specifications related
to the purchase of products or | 25 | | supplies. Such procedures and
specifications shall be modified | 26 | | as necessary to require the procuring
agency to seek out |
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| 1 | | products and supplies that contain recycled materials,
and to | 2 | | ensure that purchased products or supplies are reusable, | 3 | | durable or
made from recycled materials whenever economically | 4 | | and practically
feasible. In choosing among products or | 5 | | supplies that contain recycled
material, consideration shall | 6 | | be given to products and supplies with the
highest recycled | 7 | | material content that is consistent with the effective and
| 8 | | efficient use of the product or supply.
| 9 | | (d) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the | 10 | | Department of
Central Management Services shall procure | 11 | | recycled paper and paper products
as follows:
| 12 | | (1) Beginning July 1, 1989, at least 10% of the
total | 13 | | dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by
the | 14 | | Department of Central Management Services shall be
| 15 | | recycled paper and paper products.
| 16 | | (2) Beginning July 1, 1992, at least 25% of the
total | 17 | | dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by
the | 18 | | Department of Central Management Services shall be
| 19 | | recycled paper and paper products.
| 20 | | (3) Beginning July 1, 1996, at least
40% of the total | 21 | | dollar value of paper and paper products
purchased by the | 22 | | Department of Central Management Services shall be
| 23 | | recycled paper and paper products.
| 24 | | (4) Beginning July 1, 2000, at least 50% of the total | 25 | | dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by the | 26 | | Department of Central Management
Services shall be |
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| 1 | | recycled paper and paper products.
| 2 | | (e) Paper and paper products purchased from private | 3 | | vendors
pursuant to printing contracts are not considered | 4 | | paper products for the
purposes of subsection (d). However, | 5 | | the Department of Central Management
Services shall report to | 6 | | the General Assembly on an annual
basis the total dollar value | 7 | | of printing contracts awarded to private
sector vendors that | 8 | | included the use of recycled paper.
| 9 | | (f)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible, | 10 | | the recycled paper
and paper products referred to in | 11 | | subsection (d) shall contain postconsumer
or recovered | 12 | | paper materials as specified by paper category in this | 13 | | subsection:
| 14 | | (i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper | 15 | | shall contain at
least 50% recovered paper material. | 16 | | Such recovered paper material, until
July 1, 1994, | 17 | | shall consist of at least 20% deinked stock or | 18 | | postconsumer
material; and beginning July 1, 1994, | 19 | | shall consist of at least 25%
deinked stock or | 20 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, | 21 | | shall
consist of at least 30% deinked stock or | 22 | | postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1998, | 23 | | shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock or
| 24 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000, | 25 | | shall consist of at
least 50% deinked stock or | 26 | | postconsumer material.
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| 1 | | (ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994, | 2 | | shall contain at
least 25% postconsumer material; and | 3 | | beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 30% | 4 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, | 5 | | shall
contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and | 6 | | beginning July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 40% | 7 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,
2000, | 8 | | shall contain at least 45% postconsumer material.
| 9 | | (iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994, | 10 | | shall contain at least
40% postconsumer material; and | 11 | | beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at
least 50% | 12 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, | 13 | | shall contain
at least 60% postconsumer material; and | 14 | | beginning July 1, 1998, shall
contain at least 70% | 15 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000,
| 16 | | shall contain at least 80% postconsumer material.
| 17 | | (iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1, | 18 | | 1994, shall
contain at least 35% postconsumer | 19 | | material; and beginning July 1, 1994,
shall contain at | 20 | | least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,
| 21 | | 1996, shall contain at least 45% postconsumer | 22 | | material; and beginning July
1, 1998, shall contain at | 23 | | least 50% postconsumer material; and beginning
July 1, | 24 | | 2000, shall contain at least 55% postconsumer | 25 | | material.
| 26 | | (v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall |
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| 1 | | contain at least
80% postconsumer material; and | 2 | | beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at
least 85% | 3 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, | 4 | | shall contain
at least 90% postconsumer material; and | 5 | | beginning July 1, 1998, shall
contain at least 95% | 6 | | postconsumer material.
| 7 | | (2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer | 8 | | material" includes:
| 9 | | (i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes from | 10 | | retail stores, office
buildings, homes, and so forth, | 11 | | after the waste has passed through its end
usage as a | 12 | | consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old | 13 | | newspapers,
mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and | 14 | | used cordage; and
| 15 | | (ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes | 16 | | that are diverted or
separated from the municipal | 17 | | solid waste stream.
| 18 | | (3) For the purposes of this Section, "recovered paper | 19 | | material" includes:
| 20 | | (i) postconsumer material;
| 21 | | (ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated | 22 | | after completion of the
papermaking process (that is, | 23 | | those manufacturing operations up to and
including the | 24 | | cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into | 25 | | smaller
rolls or rough sheets), including envelope | 26 | | cuttings, bindery trimmings, and
other paper and |
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| 1 | | paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting,
| 2 | | forming, and other converting operations, or from bag, | 3 | | box and carton
manufacturing, and butt rolls, mill | 4 | | wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and
| 5 | | (iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete | 6 | | inventories of
paper and paperboard manufacturers, | 7 | | merchants, wholesalers, dealers,
printers, converters, | 8 | | or others.
| 9 | | (g) The Department of Central Management Services may
| 10 | | adopt regulations to carry out the provisions and
purposes of | 11 | | this Section.
| 12 | | (h) Every State agency shall, in its procurement | 13 | | documents, specify
that, whenever economically and practically | 14 | | feasible, a product to be
procured must consist, wholly or in | 15 | | part, of recycled materials, or be
recyclable or reusable in | 16 | | whole or in part. When applicable, if state
guidelines are not | 17 | | already prescribed, State agencies shall follow USEPA
| 18 | | guidelines for federal procurement.
| 19 | | (i) All State agencies shall cooperate with the Department | 20 | | of Central
Management Services in carrying out this Section. | 21 | | The Department of
Central Management Services may enter into | 22 | | cooperative purchasing
agreements with other governmental | 23 | | units in order to obtain volume
discounts, or for other | 24 | | reasons in accordance with the Governmental Joint
Purchasing | 25 | | Act, or in accordance with the Intergovernmental Cooperation | 26 | | Act
if governmental units of other states or the federal |
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| 1 | | government are involved.
| 2 | | (j) The Department of Central Management Services shall | 3 | | submit an annual
report to the General Assembly concerning its | 4 | | implementation of the
State's collection and recycled paper | 5 | | procurement programs. This report
shall include a description | 6 | | of the actions that the Department of Central
Management | 7 | | Services has taken in the previous fiscal year to implement | 8 | | this
Section. This report shall be submitted on or before | 9 | | November 1 of each year.
| 10 | | (k) The Department of Central Management Services, in
| 11 | | cooperation with all other appropriate departments and | 12 | | agencies of the
State, shall institute whenever economically | 13 | | and practically feasible the
use of re-refined motor oil in | 14 | | all State-owned motor vehicles and the use
of remanufactured | 15 | | and retread tires whenever such use is practical,
beginning no | 16 | | later than July 1, 1992.
| 17 | | (l) (Blank).
| 18 | | (m) The Department of Central Management Services, in | 19 | | coordination with
the Department of Commerce and Community | 20 | | Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity), | 21 | | has implemented an aluminum
can recycling program in all State | 22 | | buildings within 270 days of the effective
date of this | 23 | | amendatory Act of 1997. The program provides for (1) the
| 24 | | collection and storage of used aluminum cans in bins or other | 25 | | appropriate
containers made reasonably available to occupants | 26 | | and visitors of State
buildings and (2) the sale of used |
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| 1 | | aluminum cans to buyers of recyclable
materials.
| 2 | | Proceeds from the sale of used aluminum cans shall be | 3 | | deposited into I-CYCLE
accounts maintained in the Facilities | 4 | | Management Revolving Fund and, subject
to appropriation, shall | 5 | | be used by the Department of Central Management
Services and | 6 | | any other State agency to offset the costs of implementing the
| 7 | | aluminum can recycling program under this Section.
| 8 | | All State agencies having an aluminum can recycling | 9 | | program in place shall
continue with their current plan. If a | 10 | | State agency has an existing recycling
program in place, | 11 | | proceeds from the aluminum can recycling program may be
| 12 | | retained and distributed pursuant to that program, otherwise | 13 | | all revenue
resulting from these programs shall be forwarded | 14 | | to Central Management
Services, I-CYCLE for placement into the | 15 | | appropriate account within the Facilities Management Revolving | 16 | | Fund, minus any operating costs associated with the
program.
| 17 | | (Source: P.A. 101-636, eff. 6-10-20; 102-444, eff. 8-20-21.)
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