Full Text of HR0405 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund | 3 | | Council has delegated many of its programmatic | 4 | | responsibilities under the Drycleaner Environmental Response | 5 | | Trust Fund Act, including the duty to receive and process | 6 | | license applications and the duty to receive and process | 7 | | claims, to a private company, Williams and Company Consulting, | 8 | | Inc.; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, This delegation of programmatic duties | 10 | | potentially threatens the integrity of the regulatory scheme | 11 | | established under the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust | 12 | | Fund Act; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that, | 15 | | when conducting the next scheduled annual audit of the | 16 | | Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Council, we urge | 17 | | the Auditor General to investigate and report on: | 18 | | (1) whether Williams and Company Consulting, Inc., is | 19 | | administering the Council's programmatic responsibilities | 20 | | in a manner that is consistent with the requirements of the | 21 | | Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Act and rules | 22 | | adopted under that Act, as well as all relevant State | 23 | | procurement laws;
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| 1 | | (2) the gross revenues of the Drycleaner Environmental | 2 | | Response Trust Fund during each of the last 14 years, as | 3 | | well as the total expenditures from the Fund for remedial | 4 | | actions of drycleaning solvent releases at drycleaning | 5 | | facilities in the State during each of those years;
| 6 | | (3) expenses that Williams and Company Consulting, | 7 | | Inc., has billed for acting as the administrator of the | 8 | | Fund during each of the years of its current contract with | 9 | | the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Council; | 10 | | (4) the amount paid from the Fund to each State agency, | 11 | | as defined in the Illinois State Auditing Act, during each | 12 | | of the last 14 years; | 13 | | (5) any ancillary charges that Williams and Company, | 14 | | Inc., imposes against owners and operators for the | 15 | | administrative services that it provides; and | 16 | | (6) the number of Illinois drycleaners whose | 17 | | properties are in need of remedial action and whose | 18 | | participation in the State's drycleaner environmental | 19 | | cleanup insurance system has been terminated for | 20 | | noncompliance with the Drycleaner Environmental Response | 21 | | Trust Fund Act and rules adopted under that Act; and be it | 22 | | further | 23 | | RESOLVED, That the Auditor General commence its next annual | 24 | | audit of the Council as soon as possible and report the | 25 | | findings and recommendations upon completion in accordance |
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| 1 | | with the Illinois State Auditing Act; and be it further
| 2 | | RESOLVED, That the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust | 3 | | Fund Council and Williams and Company Consulting, Inc., shall | 4 | | provide all needed information that the Auditor General deems | 5 | | necessary; and be it further | 6 | | RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be delivered to | 7 | | the Auditor General and to each of the member of the Drycleaner | 8 | | Environmental Response Trust Fund Council.
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