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      415 ILCS 130/30 new
          Amends the Interstate Ozone Transport  Oversight  Act  to
      provide  for the review by the Illinois General Assembly of a
      State Implementation Plan for ozone  attainment  prepared  by
      the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency at least 60 days
      before   the   Plan   is   submitted  to  the  United  States
      Environmental   Protection   Agency.   Requires   legislative
      hearings on a Plan's prospective economic  and  environmental
      impacts.  Prohibits  the  Illinois  Environmental  Protection
      Agency  from submitting a State Implementation Plan for ozone
      attainment to  the  United  States  Environmental  Protection
      Agency  if  the  Plan  is  more  stringent  than necessary to
      achieve attainment with the national ozone  standard,  except
      under specified circumstances.
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 1        AN  ACT to amend the Interstate Ozone Transport Oversight
 2    Act by changing Sections 10, 20, and 25.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Interstate Ozone Transport Oversight Act
 6    is amended by changing Sections 10, 20, and 25 as follows:
 7        (415 ILCS 130/10)
 8        Sec. 10.  Definitions.  As used in this Act:
 9        "Act" means the Interstate Ozone Transport Oversight Act.
10        "Alternate strategies"  means  any  alternate  strategies
11    which  could reasonably be utilized by the State of Illinois,
12    in lieu of or in combination with the  strategies  identified
13    in   any   proposed  memorandum  of  understanding  or  other
14    agreement developed by the Ozone Transport Assessment  Group,
15    in  its  efforts  to achieve the national ambient air quality
16    standard for ozone.
17        "Board" means the Pollution Control Board.
18        "Director"   means   the   Director   of   the   Illinois
19    Environmental Protection Agency.
20        "House   Committee"   means   the   Illinois   House   of
21    Representatives Committee on Energy and the Environment.
22        "House of Representatives" means the  Illinois  House  of
23    Representatives.
24        "Memorandum  of  understanding"  means  a  memorandum  of
25    understanding  or  any other agreement by the Ozone Transport
26    Assessment Group potentially requiring the State of  Illinois
27    to   undertake  emission  reductions  in  addition  to  those
28    specified in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
29        "Ozone Transport Assessment  Group"  means  the  national
30    work  group  formed  to  conduct a national assessment of and
31    develop a consensus  solution  to  the  ozone  formation  and
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 1    transport  phenomena,  including  a proposal for national and
 2    regional control strategies aimed at achieving reductions  of
 3    ozone and ozone precursor concentrations.
 4        "Senate" means the Illinois Senate.
 5        "Senate Committee" means the Illinois Senate Committee on
 6    Energy and the Environment.
 7        "Senate  President"  means  the President of the Illinois
 8    Senate.
 9        "Speaker of the House" means the Speaker of the  Illinois
10    House of Representatives.
11        "State  Implementation  Plan"  means  an  Illinois  state
12    implementation plan for ozone attainment prepared pursuant to
13    Section 110 of the federal Clean Air Act.
14    (Source: P.A. 89-566, eff. 7-26-96.)
15        (415 ILCS 130/20)
16        Sec. 20.  Legislative referral and public hearings.
17        (a)  Not  later than 10 days after the development of any
18    proposed memorandum of understanding by the  Ozone  Transport
19    Assessment  Group potentially requiring the State of Illinois
20    to  undertake  emission  reductions  in  addition  to   those
21    specified  by  the  Clean  Air  Act  Amendments  of  1990, or
22    subsequent to the issuance of a request by the United  States
23    Environmental  Protection  Agency  for  submission of a State
24    Implementation Plan for Illinois relating to ozone attainment
25    and before submission of the Plan, the Director shall  submit
26    the   proposed   memorandum   of   understanding   or   State
27    Implementation  Plan  to  the  House Committee and the Senate
28    Committee  for  their  consideration.   At  that  time,   the
29    Director   shall   also   submit  information  detailing  any
30    alternate strategies.
31        (b)  To assist the legislative review  required  by  this
32    Act,  the  Department of Natural Resources and the Department
33    of Commerce and Community Affairs shall conduct a joint study
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 1    of the impacts on the State's economy which may  result  from
 2    implementation of the emission reduction strategies contained
 3    within  any  proposed  memorandum  of  understanding or State
 4    Implementation Plan relating to ozone and from implementation
 5    of any alternate strategies.  The study  shall  include,  but
 6    not  be  limited  to,  the  impacts  on economic development,
 7    employment, utility costs and  rates,  personal  income,  and
 8    industrial    competitiveness    which    may   result   from
 9    implementation of the emission reduction strategies contained
10    within  any  proposed  memorandum  of  agreement   or   State
11    Implementation Plan relating to ozone and from implementation
12    of any alternate strategies.  The study shall be submitted to
13    the  House  Committee  and  Senate Committee not less than 10
14    days prior to any scheduled  hearing  conducted  pursuant  to
15    subsection (c) of this Section.
16        (c)  Upon   receipt   of   the  information  required  by
17    subsections (a) and (b) of this Section, the House  Committee
18    and  Senate  Committee  shall each convene one or more public
19    hearings to receive comments from agencies of government  and
20    other interested parties on the memorandum of understanding's
21    or  State  Implementation  Plan's  prospective  economic  and
22    environmental  impacts,  including its impacts on energy use,
23    economic  development,   utility   costs   and   rates,   and
24    competitiveness.  Additionally, comments shall be received on
25    the prospective economic and environmental impacts, including
26    impacts  on  energy  use, economic development, utility costs
27    and  rates,  and  competitiveness,  which  may  result   from
28    implementation of any alternate strategies.
29    (Source: P.A. 89-566, eff. 7-26-96.)
30        (415 ILCS 130/25)
31        Sec. 25.  Findings and recommendations to the Governor.
32        (a)  Upon  completion  of  the  public hearings conducted
33    pursuant to subsection  (c)  of  Section  20  15,  the  House
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 1    Committee  and  Senate  Committee shall each prepare a report
 2    containing its findings and  recommendations  concerning  the
 3    proposed  memorandum of understanding or State Implementation
 4    Plan  and  alternate  strategies.   The  reports  shall  also
 5    contain findings and recommendations concerning the  relative
 6    net   costs   and   net  benefits  which  might  result  from
 7    implementation   of   the   emission   reduction   strategies
 8    identified  in  the  memorandum  of  understanding  or  State
 9    Implementation Plan, contrasted with those that might  result
10    from   implementation   of  the  alternate  strategies.   The
11    recommendations may include suggested  modifications  to  the
12    terms  or applicability of the memorandum of understanding or
13    State Implementation Plan.
14        (b)  Upon completion of the reports, the House  Committee
15    and Senate Committee shall forward the reports to the Speaker
16    of the House and the Senate President, respectively.
17        (c)  Upon  receipt  of  the reports submitted pursuant to
18    subsection (b) of this Section, the Speaker of the House  and
19    the  Senate  President  shall  forward  the  reports  to  the
20    Governor  for his or her further consideration or action that
21    may be warranted.
22        (d)  In the absence of a resolution or other act  of  the
23    Illinois  General  Assembly  approving a State Implementation
24    Plan for Illinois relating to  ozone,  the  Director  of  the
25    Illinois  Environmental Protection Agency shall not submit to
26    the United States Environmental  Protection  Agency  a  State
27    Implementation  Plan  relating to ozone attainment that would
28    impose emission controls  in  Illinois  more  stringent  than
29    necessary  for  Illinois  to  demonstrate  attainment  with a
30    national ambient air quality standard for  ozone,  unless  it
31    can  be  shown  (i)  that  man-made  emissions  from man-made
32    sources located within Illinois contribute  significantly  to
33    nonattainment  or  inability to maintain an ozone standard in
34    another nonattaining state and (ii)  that  feasible  emission
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 1    reductions  in  the other nonattaining state, absent the more
 2    stringent emission controls in  Illinois,  would  not  permit
 3    that  state  to demonstrate attainment and maintenance of the
 4    national ambient air quality standard for ozone.
 5    (Source: P.A. 89-566, eff. 7-26-96.)

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