Full Text of SB0052 096th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning finance.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. If and only if Senate Bill 658 of the 96th | 5 |
| General Assembly (as amended by House Amendment No. 3) becomes | 6 |
| law, the Illinois Power Agency Act is amended by changing | 7 |
| Section 1-56 as follows: | 8 |
| (20 ILCS 3855/1-56 as added by 09600SB0658eng with ham003)
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| Sec. 1-56. Clean coal SNG facility construction. | 10 |
| (a) It is the intention of the General Assembly to provide | 11 |
| additional long-term natural gas price stability to the State | 12 |
| and consumers by promoting the development of a clean coal SNG | 13 |
| facility that would produce a minimum annual output of 30 Bcf | 14 |
| of SNG and commence construction no later than June 1, 2013 on | 15 |
| a brownfield site in a municipality with at least one million | 16 |
| residents. The costs associated with preparing a facility cost | 17 |
| report for such a facility, which contains all of the | 18 |
| information required by subsection (b) of this Section, may be | 19 |
| paid or reimbursed pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section. | 20 |
| (b) The facility cost report for a facility that meets the | 21 |
| criteria set forth in subsection (a) of this Section shall be | 22 |
| prepared by a duly licensed engineering firm that details the | 23 |
| estimated capital costs payable to one or more contractors or |
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| suppliers for the engineering, procurement, and construction | 2 |
| of the components comprising the facility and the estimated | 3 |
| costs of operation and maintenance of the facility. The report | 4 |
| must be provided to the General Assembly and the Agency on or | 5 |
| before April 30, 2010. The facility cost report shall include | 6 |
| all off the following: | 7 |
| (1) An estimate of the capital cost of the core plant | 8 |
| based on a front-end engineering and design study. The core | 9 |
| plant shall include all civil, structural, mechanical, | 10 |
| electrical, control, and safety systems. The quoted | 11 |
| construction costs shall be expressed in nominal dollars as | 12 |
| of the date that the quote is prepared and shall include: | 13 |
| (A) capitalized financing costs during | 14 |
| construction; | 15 |
| (B) taxes, insurance, and other owner's costs; and | 16 |
| (C) any assumed escalation in materials and labor | 17 |
| beyond the date as of which the construction cost quote | 18 |
| is expressed; | 19 |
| (2) An estimate of the capital cost of the balance of | 20 |
| the plant, including any capital costs associated with site | 21 |
| preparation and remediation, sequestration of carbon | 22 |
| dioxide emissions, and all interconnects and interfaces | 23 |
| required to operate the facility, such as construction or | 24 |
| backfeed power supply, pipelines to transport substitute | 25 |
| natural gas or carbon dioxide, potable water supply, | 26 |
| natural gas supply, water supply, water discharge, |
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| landfill, access roads, and coal delivery. The front-end | 2 |
| engineering and design study and the cost study for the | 3 |
| balance of the plant shall include sufficient design work | 4 |
| to permit quantification of major categories of materials, | 5 |
| commodities and labor hours, and receipt of quotes from | 6 |
| vendors of major equipment required to construct and | 7 |
| operate the facility. | 8 |
| (3) An operating and maintenance cost quote that will | 9 |
| provide the estimated cost of delivered fuel, personnel, | 10 |
| maintenance contracts, chemicals, catalysts, consumables, | 11 |
| spares, and other fixed and variable operating and | 12 |
| maintenance costs. This quote is subject to the following | 13 |
| requirements: | 14 |
| (A) The delivered fuel cost estimate shall be | 15 |
| provided by a recognized third party expert or experts | 16 |
| in the fuel and transportation industries. | 17 |
| (B) The balance of the operating and maintenance | 18 |
| cost quote, excluding delivered fuel costs shall be | 19 |
| developed based on the inputs provided by a duly | 20 |
| licensed engineering firm performing the construction | 21 |
| cost quote, potential vendors under long-term service | 22 |
| agreements and plant operating agreements, or | 23 |
| recognized third-party plant operator or operators. | 24 |
| The operating and maintenance cost quote shall be | 25 |
| expressed in nominal dollars as of the date that the quote | 26 |
| is prepared and shall include (i) taxes, insurance, and |
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| other owner's costs and (ii) any assumed escalation in | 2 |
| materials and labor beyond the date as of which the | 3 |
| operating and maintenance cost quote is expressed. | 4 |
| (c) Reasonable amounts paid or due to be paid by the owner | 5 |
| or owners of the clean coal SNG facility to third parties | 6 |
| unrelated to the owner or owners to prepare the facility cost | 7 |
| report will may be reimbursed or paid up to $10 million through | 8 |
| Coal Development Bonds , through funding authorized pursuant to | 9 |
| 20 ILCS 3501/825-65 . | 10 |
| (d) The Agency shall review the facility report and based | 11 |
| on that report, consider whether to enter into long term | 12 |
| contracts to purchase SNG from the facility pursuant to Section | 13 |
| 1-20 of this Act. To assist with its evaluation of the report, | 14 |
| the Agency may hire one or more experts or consultants, the | 15 |
| reasonable costs of which, not to exceed $250,000, shall be | 16 |
| paid for by the owner or owners of the clean coal SNG facility | 17 |
| submitting the facility cost report. The Agency may begin the | 18 |
| process of selecting such experts or consultants prior to | 19 |
| receipt of the facility cost report.
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| (Source: 09600SB0658eng with ham003.) | 21 |
| Section 10. If and only if Senate Bill 658 of the 96th | 22 |
| General Assembly (as amended by House Amendment No. 3) becomes | 23 |
| law, the General Obligation Bond Act is amended by changing | 24 |
| Section 7 as follows:
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| (30 ILCS 330/7) (from Ch. 127, par. 657)
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| Sec. 7. Coal and Energy Development. The amount of | 3 |
| $698,200,000 is
authorized to be used by the Department of | 4 |
| Commerce and Economic Opportunity (formerly Department of | 5 |
| Commerce and Community Affairs) for
coal and energy development | 6 |
| purposes, pursuant to Sections 2, 3 and 3.1 of the
Illinois | 7 |
| Coal and Energy Development Bond Act, for the purposes
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| specified
in Section 8.1 of the Energy Conservation and Coal | 9 |
| Development Act, for
the purposes specified in Section 605-332 | 10 |
| of the Department of Commerce and
Economic Opportunity Law of | 11 |
| the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, and for the purpose | 12 |
| of facility cost reports prepared pursuant to Sections 1-56 or | 13 |
| Section 1-75(d)(4) of the Illinois Power Agency Act and for the | 14 |
| purpose of development costs pursuant to Section 8.1 of the | 15 |
| Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act . Of this
amount:
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| (a) $115,000,000 is
for the specific purposes of | 17 |
| acquisition,
development, construction, reconstruction, | 18 |
| improvement, financing,
architectural and technical planning | 19 |
| and installation of capital facilities
consisting of | 20 |
| buildings, structures, durable equipment, and land for the
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| purpose of capital development of coal resources within the | 22 |
| State and for the
purposes specified in Section 8.1 of the | 23 |
| Energy Conservation and Coal
Development Act;
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| (b) $35,000,000 is for the purposes specified in Section | 25 |
| 8.1 of the
Energy
Conservation and Coal Development Act and | 26 |
| making a grant to the owner of a
generating station
located in |
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| Illinois and having at least three coal-fired generating units
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| with accredited summer capability greater than 500 megawatts | 3 |
| each at such
generating station as provided in Section 6 of | 4 |
| that Bond Act;
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| (c) $13,200,000 is for research, development and | 6 |
| demonstration
of forms of energy
other than that derived from | 7 |
| coal, either on or off State property;
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| (d) $500,000,000 is for the purpose of providing financial | 9 |
| assistance to
new
electric generating facilities as provided in | 10 |
| Section 605-332 of the Department
of Commerce and Economic | 11 |
| Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of
Illinois; | 12 |
| and
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| (e) $35,000,000 is for the purpose of facility cost reports | 14 |
| prepared for not more than one facility pursuant to Section | 15 |
| 1-75(d)(4) of the Illinois Power Agency Act and not more than | 16 |
| one facility pursuant to Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power | 17 |
| Agency Act and for the purpose of up to $6,000,000 of | 18 |
| development costs pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Energy | 19 |
| Conservation and Coal Development Act . | 20 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06; 95-1026, eff. 1-12-09.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 22 |
| becoming law.
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