Senate Sponsors: KARPIEL-FARLEY. House Sponsors: MAUTINO-SCOTT Short description: EPA-CHEMICAL SAFETY-CLEAN AIR Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act to add definitions for garbage, hazardous waste, industrial process waste, landscape waste, pollution control waste, and special waste. Requires semiannual reports to be made to county recycling coordinators by persons engaged in collecting or transporting recyclable materials. Effective immediately. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes reference to: 415 ILCS 15/7 Adds reference to: 415 ILCS 15/5.5 415 ILCS 15/6 from Ch. 85, par. 5956 Replaces title and everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act to redefine "municipal waste". Revises the method for determining the recycling rate under a county waste management plan. Creates the Measurement and Reporting Standards Task Force to assess impediments to standardized solid waste measurement and to consider standardized reporting rate measurements. Provides that landfills, transfer stations, recycling centers, and transporters of hazardous waste shall not be required to report to a county quantities of municipal waste according to categories set forth in the definition of "municipal waste". HOME RULE NOTE SB545, engrossed, fails to preempt home rule authority. STATE MANDATES FISCAL NOTE (DCCA) SB545, engrossed, fails to create a State mandate. FISCAL NOTE (DCCA) SB 545 imposes no additional requirements and does not have a fiscal impact on units of local government. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. (House recedes May 22, 1998) Increases the membership of the Measurement and Reporting Standards Task Force to include 2 members representing the National Solid Wastes Management Association and one member representing the American Forest and Paper Association. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 1. Recommends that the House recede from H-am 1. Recommends that the bill be further amended as follows: Deletes reference to: 415 ILCS 15/3 415 ILCS 15/6 Adds reference to: 415 ILCS 5/13.4 new 415 ILCS 5/15 415 ILCS 5/18 415 ILCS 5/22.2 415 ILCS 5/39.5 415 ILCS 5/42 415 ILCS 5/56 415 ILCS 5/56.4 430 ILCS 45/3 Replaces title and everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Environmental Protection Act and the Illinois Chemical Safety Act. Establishes a pretreatment market system to afford economic-based incentives to publicly-owned treatment works and tributary discharges to achieve compliance with federal, State, and local pretreatment standards and limits. Requires public water supplies established after October 1, 1999 to demonstrate managerial capacity as a condition for the issuance of construction and operation permits. Removes require- ment that interest and earnings from investments of the Hazardous Waste Transporter Account be deposited into that account. Amends provisions relating to the Clean Air Act Permit Program to include emissions from support facilities supporting a stationary source. Limits penalties for failing to file toxic chemical release forms to $6,000 (currently $100 per day). Provides that potentially infectious medical waste is generally not hazardous waste. Excludes certain businesses subject to certain federal regulations from the Illinois Chemical Safety Act. Effective immediately. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 90-0773 Last action date: 98-08-14 Location: Senate Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 1 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status