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420 ILCS 37/5

(420 ILCS 37/5)

    Sec. 5. Legislative findings.
    (a) The General Assembly finds:
        (1) that a considerable volume of wastes are produced

in this State with even greater volumes to be produced in the future;

(2) that these wastes pose a significant risk to the

public health, safety and welfare of the people of Illinois; and

(3) that it is the obligation of the State of

Illinois to its citizens to provide for the safe management of the wastes produced within its borders.

(b) It is the intent of this Act to authorize the Agency to establish, by regulation, a tracking system for the regulation of the use of facilities licensed under Section 8 of the Illinois Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act.

(Source: P.A. 103-569, eff. 6-1-24.)