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92_HB0984
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1 AN ACT concerning environmental protection.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended
5 by changing Section 22.28 as follows:
6 (415 ILCS 5/22.28) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022.28)
7 Sec. 22.28. White goods.
8 (a) Beginning July 1, 1994, no person shall knowingly
9 offer for collection or collect white goods for the purpose
10 of disposal by landfilling unless the white good components
11 have been removed.
12 (b) Beginning July 1, 1994, no owner or operator of a
13 landfill shall accept any white goods for final disposal,
14 except that white goods may be accepted if:
15 (1) the landfill participates in the Industrial
16 Materials Exchange Service by communicating the
17 availability of white goods;
18 (2) prior to final disposal, any white good
19 components have been removed from the white goods; and
20 (3) if white good components are removed from the
21 white goods at the landfill, a site operating plan
22 satisfying this Act has been approved under the site
23 operating permit and the conditions of such operating
24 plan are met.
25 (c) For the purposes of this Section:
26 (1) "White goods" shall include all discarded
27 refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, air
28 conditioners, humidifiers, natural gas regulators, and
29 other similar domestic and commercial large appliances.
30 (2) "White good components" shall include:
31 (i) any chlorofluorocarbon refrigerant gas;
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1 (ii) any electrical switch containing mercury;
2 (iii) any device that contains or may contain
3 PCBs in a closed system, such as a dielectric fluid
4 for a capacitor, ballast or other component; and
5 (iv) any fluorescent lamp that contains
6 mercury; any natural gas regulator containing
7 mercury.
8 (d) The Agency is authorized to provide financial
9 assistance to units of local government from the Solid Waste
10 Management Fund to plan for and implement programs to
11 collect, transport and manage white goods. Units of local
12 government may apply jointly for financial assistance under
13 this Section.
14 Applications for such financial assistance shall be
15 submitted to the Agency and must provide a description of:
16 (A) the area to be served by the program;
17 (B) the white goods intended to be included in
18 the program;
19 (C) the methods intended to be used for
20 collecting and receiving materials;
21 (D) the property, buildings, equipment and
22 personnel included in the program;
23 (E) the public education systems to be used as
24 part of the program;
25 (F) the safety and security systems that will
26 be used;
27 (G) the intended processing methods for each
28 white goods type;
29 (H) the intended destination for final
30 material handling location; and
31 (I) any staging sites used to handle collected
32 materials, the activities to be performed at such
33 sites and the procedures for assuring removal of
34 collected materials from such sites.
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1 The application may be amended to reflect changes in
2 operating procedures, destinations for collected materials,
3 or other factors.
4 Financial assistance shall be awarded for a State fiscal
5 year, and may be renewed, upon application, if the Agency
6 approves the operation of the program.
7 (e) All materials collected or received under a program
8 operated with financial assistance under this Section shall
9 be recycled whenever possible. Treatment or disposal of
10 collected materials are not eligible for financial assistance
11 unless the applicant shows and the Agency approves which
12 materials may be treated or disposed of under various
13 conditions.
14 Any revenue from the sale of materials collected under
15 such a program shall be retained by the unit of local
16 government and may be used only for the same purposes as the
17 financial assistance under this Section.
18 (f) The Agency is authorized to adopt rules necessary or
19 appropriate to the administration of this Section.
20 (g) (Blank).
21 (Source: P.A. 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)