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92_HB4646

 
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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 as follows:

 6        (415 ILCS 5/22) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022)
 7        Sec. 22.  Regulations.   In accord with Title VII of this
 8    Act, the Board may adopt regulations to promote the  purposes
 9    of  this  Title.   Without  limiting  the  generality of this
10    authority, such regulations may among other things  prescribe
11    the following:
12        (a)  Standards  for  the  location, design, construction,
13    sanitation, operation, maintenance, and discontinuance of the
14    operation of refuse  collection  and  disposal,  storage  and
15    treatment  sites and facilities and resource conservation and
16    recovery sites and facilities;
17        (b)  Standards  for  the  dumping  of  any  refuse,   and
18    standards for the handling, storing, processing, transporting
19    and disposal of any hazardous waste;
20        (c)  Requirements   and  standards  for  the  keeping  of
21    records and the reporting and retaining of data collected  by
22    generators,   processors,  storers,  transporters,  handlers,
23    treaters, and disposers of special or hazardous waste;
24        (d)  Requirements  and  standards   for   equipment   and
25    procedures  for  monitoring  contaminant  discharges at their
26    source,  the  collection  of  samples  and  the   collection,
27    reporting   and   retention   of  data  resulting  from  such
28    monitoring;
29        (e)  Alert  and  abatement  standards  relative  to  land
30    pollution emergencies constituting an acute danger to  health
31    or to the environment;
 
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 1        (f)  Requirements  and  standards for adequate and proper
 2    care  and  maintenance  of,  closure  of,  and   post-closure
 3    monitoring,  maintenance  and use of hazardous waste disposal
 4    sites;
 5        (g)  Requirements to prohibit  the  disposal  of  certain
 6    hazardous   wastes   in   sanitary   landfills  where,  after
 7    regulatory proceedings held in conformance with Title VII  of
 8    this  Act,  it  is determined by the Board that the long term
 9    impacts to public health and the environment  are  such  that
10    land  burial  should not be allowed and where an economically
11    reasonable, technically feasible  and  environmentally  sound
12    alternative  is available for processing, recycling, fixation
13    or  neutralization  of  such   wastes.   The   agency   shall
14    participate  in all such proceedings. No such prohibition may
15    become effective unless  a  specific  alternative  technology
16    meeting  the criteria of this subsection is identified by the
17    Board. Nothing in this subsection  shall  prohibit  the  land
18    burial  of any hazardous waste which is the subject of review
19    under this subsection until such time as a final  prohibition
20    order is issued by the Board.
21    (Source: P.A. 83-425.)

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