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91_SB1046eng SB1046 Engrossed LRB9105839EGpr 1 AN ACT to amend the Wastewater Land Treatment Site 2 Regulation Act by changing Section 3. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The Wastewater Land Treatment Site Regulation 6 Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows: 7 (415 ILCS 50/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 583) 8 Sec. 3. Engineering report; financial responsibility 9 ordinance. 10 (a) An applicant for a wastewater land treatment site 11 located inside of the county in which the waste was produced 12 shall submit its engineering report for concept approval, 13 including proof of financial capability to operate and 14 maintain such a system on a continuing basis, concurrently to 15 the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and any 16 designated management agency in the facility planning area 17 within which the system is located, and to any designated 18 area-wide water quality planning agency within which the 19 system is located. 20 (b) In addition, an applicant seeking a permit to 21 establish, operate, manage, or maintain a lagoon treatment 22 spray irrigation system to be located in a county having a 23 common boundary with the northern line of the State of 24 Illinois and a population of at least 500,000 but less than 25 2,000,000 shall secure from the municipality within which the 26 system is proposed to be located, or from the county if the 27 system is proposed to be located in an unincorporated area, a 28 plan approved in the form of an ordinance adopted by the 29 corporate authorities of the municipality or county under 30 which the municipality or county accepts operating and 31 financial responsibility for the spray irrigation system in SB1046 Engrossed -2- LRB9105839EGpr 1 the event of its malfunction or failure. 2 A copy of the adopted ordinance must be submitted to the 3 Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, to any designated 4 management agency in the facility planning area within which 5 the system is proposed to be located, and to any designated 6 areawide water quality planning agency within whose 7 jurisdiction the system is proposed to be located. 8 The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency shall not 9 issue a permit to establish, operate, manage, or maintain a 10 lagoon treatment spray irrigation system to be located in a 11 county having a common boundary with the northern line of the 12 State of Illinois and a population of at least 500,000 but 13 less than 2,000,000, unless a copy of the required ordinance 14 has been submitted to the Agency, notwithstanding the 15 applicant's compliance with all other requirements for the 16 permit. 17 (c) A designated management agency may review and 18 comment to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency 19 regarding such engineering report and ordinance, if any. 20 Such review and comment must be submitted to the Illinois 21 Environmental Protection Agency within 45 days of submission 22 of the engineering report. The Illinois Environmental 23 Protection Agency shall consider such review and comment in 24 its permit issuance process. 25 (Source: P.A. 85-1041.) 26 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 27 becoming law.