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90_HB1411eng

      415 ILCS 5/22.22          from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022.22
          Amends the Environmental Protection Act to allow an owner
      or operator of a sanitary landfill to accept landscape  waste
      for final disposal if the landfill has received a permit from
      the  Agency  to use the landscape as alternative daily cover.
      Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to  amend  the  Environmental  Protection  Act  by
 2    changing Section 22.22.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Environmental Protection Act  is  amended
 6    by changing Section 22.22 as follows:
 7        (415 ILCS 5/22.22) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022.22)
 8        Sec. 22.22. Landscape waste.
 9        (a)  Beginning  July 1, 1990, no person may knowingly mix
10    landscape waste  that  is  intended  for  collection  or  for
11    disposal at a landfill with any other municipal waste.
12        (b)  Beginning  July 1, 1990, no person may knowingly put
13    landscape waste into a container intended for  collection  or
14    disposal   at   a   landfill,   unless   such   container  is
15    biodegradable.
16        (c)  Beginning July 1, 1990, no owner or  operator  of  a
17    sanitary  landfill  shall  accept  landscape  waste for final
18    disposal,  except  that  landscape   waste   separated   from
19    municipal waste may be accepted by a sanitary landfill if (1)
20    the landfill provides and maintains for that purpose separate
21    landscape   waste  composting  facilities  and  composts  all
22    landscape waste, and (2) the composted waste is utilized,  by
23    the operators of the landfill or by any other person, as part
24    of  the  final  vegetative cover for the landfill or for such
25    other uses as soil conditioning material, or the landfill has
26    received  an  Agency  permit  to  use  source  separated  and
27    processed landscape waste as an alternative daily  cover  and
28    the  landscape  waste  is processed at a site, other than the
29    sanitary landfill, that has received an Agency permit  before
30    the  effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 to process
31    landscape waste.  For purposes of this Section,  (i)  "source
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 1    separated"  means  divided  into  its  component parts at the
 2    point of generation and collected separately from other solid
 3    waste and (ii) "processed" means shredded by mechanical means
 4    to reduce the landscape waste to a uniform consistency.
 5        (d)  The requirements of this Section shall not apply (i)
 6    to landscape waste collected as part of  a  municipal  street
 7    sweeping  operation  where  the  intent  is to provide street
 8    sweeping service rather than leaf  collection,  nor  (ii)  to
 9    landscape  waste  collected  by  bar  screens  or grates in a
10    sewage treatment system.
11    (Source: P.A. 86-820; 86-1195.)
12        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
13    becoming law.

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