(20 ILCS 3988/30)
Sec. 30.
Duties of the Local Steering Committee.
The Local
Steering Committee shall have the authority to apply for and receive
grants to conduct an inventory and develop a Resource Protection Plan
and to review all grant applications from units of local government
before they are submitted to the Board.
The Local Steering Committee shall develop a strategy for
conducting an inventory of natural areas, farmland, and cultural
resources. The Committee shall determine which resources should be
included in the inventory, the amount of financial and technical
assistance needed from the State, what information is already available,
who will conduct the inventory, how municipal and county efforts
should be coordinated, and how to present the information so that it is
compatible with inventories conducted by other county-municipal
partnerships.
The Committee shall use the inventory as the basis for developing
its Resource Protection Plan. Working with a professional planner or
other resource specialist, the Committee shall develop criteria for
prioritizing resources identified by the inventory. When prioritizing
resources, the Committee shall analyze the threat to the resources using
population projections, land use patterns, and development trends. Upon
the approval of two-thirds of its members, with at least one member
from each of the 3 categories voting in approval, the Committee
shall recommend that the county board and the municipalities within the
county adopt the Resource Protection Plan. Amendments to the
Resource Protection Plan must be approved in the same manner. A local
government may object to all or part of the Resource Protection Plan in
writing. If a written objection is filed with the Committee, the portion of
the Plan objected to shall not be effective within that local government's
borders. The objecting local government may modify or withdraw its
objection at any time.
(Source: P.A. 93-328, eff. 1-1-04.)
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