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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 392

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 392  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  1.   Short title.  This Act may be cited as the
 5    Energy Resources Policy Act.

 6        Section 5.  Findings.  The General Assembly finds that:
 7        (a)  There is a need to  build  new  electric  generation
 8    facilities in Illinois.
 9        (b)  Illinois has a large amount of natural resources and
10    infrastructure  that  is  conducive  to building new electric
11    generation plants.
12        (c)  The recent energy crisis  in  California  has  shown
13    that   it   is  imperative  that  we  have  ample  generation
14    available.
15        (d)  The development of new generating capacity will help
16    the economy of the entire State of Illinois.
17        (e)  Many  communities  in  Illinois  are   looking   for
18    economic development projects.
19        (f)  The  State  of  Illinois  needs  to  coordinate  the
20    matching  of  energy  companies  who  are looking to build in
21    Illinois with  communities  that  are  willing  to  host  the
22    generating plants.
 
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 1        (g)  The  cost of building a baseload electric generation
 2    plant with a nameplate capacity of 1,000  megawatts  is  over
 3    $500,000,000.

 4        Section 10.  Definitions.
 5        "Council"   means   the   Energy   Generation   Resources
 6    Development Coordinating Council.
 7        "Department"   means   the  Department  of  Commerce  and
 8    Community Affairs.

 9        Section 15.  Purpose.  The State of Illinois is  in  need
10    of  new  electric generation facilities.  The purpose of this
11    Act is to provide financial and other  incentives  that  will
12    result  in  (i)  the  construction of 8 new baseload electric
13    generation plants in Illinois  that  are  under  construction
14    before  December  31,  2004,  (ii)  a  pilot  program  for  a
15    wind-powered  electric  generating  plant in Illinois that is
16    under construction before December 31, 2004,  and  (iii)  the
17    construction  of  new transmission lines and the upgrading of
18    existing transmission lines before December 31, 2004.

19        Section  20.  Energy  Generation  Resources   Development
20    Coordinating Council.
21        (a)  There  is  created  the  Energy Generation Resources
22    Development Coordinating Council.  The Council shall  consist
23    of  18  members  as  follows:   the  Director of Commerce and
24    Community Affairs and the Chairman of the  Illinois  Commerce
25    Commission,   who   shall  serve  as  co-chairs;  one  member
26    appointed by the Director of Natural  Resources,  one  member
27    appointed by the Director of Natural Resources from the State
28    Water Survey Division of the Department; one member appointed
29    by  the  Director of the Environmental Protection Agency; one
30    member  appointed  by  the  Governor  and  representing   the
31    Governor's  Energy  Cabinet;  one  member  appointed  by  the
 
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 1    Governor and representing the Illinois Environmental Council;
 2    one  member  appointed  by  the Governor and representing the
 3    Environmental Law and Policy Center; one member appointed  by
 4    the Governor and representing the Illinois Energy Association
 5    on   behalf   of  Illinois  electric  utilities;  one  member
 6    appointed by the Governor and representing the Illinois  Coal
 7    Association;   one  member  appointed  by  the  Governor  and
 8    representing the Alliance Regional Transmission Organization;
 9    one member appointed by the  Governor  and  representing  the
10    Midwest  Independent Power Producers; one member appointed by
11    the Governor and representing natural gas  public  utilities;
12    one  member  appointed  by  the Governor and representing gas
13    pipeline companies; one member of the Senate appointed by the
14    President of the Senate; one member of the  Senate  appointed
15    by the Minority Leader of the Senate; one member of the House
16    of  Representatives  appointed by the Speaker of the House of
17    Representatives;   and   one   member   of   the   House   of
18    Representatives appointed by the Minority Leader of the House
19    of Representatives.
20        (b)  The Council shall study the availability in Illinois
21    of natural resources such as coal  and  groundwater  and  the
22    availability  of infrastructure such as natural gas pipelines
23    and transmission and distribution systems.
24        (c)  The Council shall identify the following:
25             (1)  Locations suitable for the development  of  new
26        generating capacity in each region of the State.
27             (2)  Communities   that  are  willing  to  host  new
28        generating capacity.
29             (3)  Financial incentives  available  to  generators
30        who are building new capacity in Illinois.

31        Section  25.   Energy summit.  On or before July 1, 2002,
32    the Council shall hold an energy  summit,  bringing  together
33    those  persons  that  wish  to  build  generating capacity in
 
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 1    Illinois and communities that wish to host generation plants.
 2    The Council shall encourage the groups to make  presentations
 3    and network with each other.

 4        Section  30.   Report.   On  or  before July 1, 2002, the
 5    Council shall submit a report to the General Assembly and the
 6    Governor.  The report shall do the following:
 7             (1)  Summarize the activities of the council.
 8             (2)  List the sites the Council has  identified  for
 9        development of generation.
10             (3)  List the communities willing to host generation
11        facilities.
12             (4)  Identify  any projects that have started due to
13        the efforts of the Council.
14             (5)  Make  recommendations   for   any   legislative
15        changes  that  may be necessary to further facilitate the
16        development of generating plants in Illinois.

17        Section   35.    Incentives   for   coal-fired   electric
18    generating  plants  and   clean-coal   gasification   process
19    electric generating plants.
20        (a)  The  entities  chosen  to construct the new Illinois
21    coal-fired  electric  generation  plants  or  the  clean-coal
22    gasification process electric generating plants  in  Illinois
23    must be allowed expedited access to funds and assistance from
24    the  Coal Research Program, the Coal Development Program, and
25    the  Coal   Demonstration   Program   administered   by   the
26    Department.
27        (b)  The  entities  chosen  to construct the new Illinois
28    coal-fired  electric   generation   plants   the   clean-coal
29    gasification  process  electric generating plants in Illinois
30    must be encouraged by the Council to seek a  grant  from  the
31    Illinois Clean Energy Community Trust Fund.
 
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 1        Section   40.    Incentives   for  wind-powered  electric
 2    generating plants.
 3        (a)  The entity chosen for the pilot program to construct
 4    a wind-powered electric generating plant must  be  encouraged
 5    by  the  Council  to  apply  for  a  one-time  grant from the
 6    Renewable Resources Energy Grant Program administered by  the
 7    Department.
 8        (b)  The entity chosen for the pilot program to construct
 9    a  wind-powered  electric generating plant must be encouraged
10    by the Council to seek a grant from the Illinois Clean Energy
11    Community Trust Fund.

12        Section 45.  Preparation by  units  of  local  government
13    interested  in  hosting  new electric generation plants.  The
14    Council  must  encourage  any  unit   of   local   government
15    interested  in hosting an electric generating plant to do the
16    following:
17             (1)  Offer an abatement of property  taxes  for  the
18        new generating plants.
19             (2)  Make    or    accommodate    the    making   of
20        infrastructure improvements.
21             (3)  Expedite zoning and planning.

22        Section  50.    Requirements   to   qualify   for   State
23    incentives.   To  qualify  to  receive  the  State incentives
24    offered under this Act, an entity proposing to  build  a  new
25    electric   generation   plant   must   meet   the   following
26    requirements:
27             (1)  Except  for  wind-powered  electric  generating
28        plants, the proposed plant must have a nameplate capacity
29        of 1,000 megawatts or greater.
30             (2)  The  entity must obtain a resolution of support
31        for the new plant from the unit of local government where
32        the plant is proposed to be built.

 
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 1             (3)  To the extent practical, the entity must commit
 2        to sell  its  electricity  to  residential  and  business
 3        customers in Illinois.

 4        Section  55.   Eligibility  for  incentives determined by
 5    rule.  The Department must adopt rules governing the award of
 6    the State incentives provided for in this  Act  for  (i)  the
 7    construction  of 8 new baseload electric generation plants in
 8    Illinois that will be under construction before December  31,
 9    2004  and  (ii)  a  pilot program for a wind-powered electric
10    generating plant in Illinois that will be under  construction
11    before  December  31,  2004.  The rules must provide that the
12    incentives will be awarded on  a  "first-come,  first-served"
13    basis.   The  Department  must  adopt  the rules on or before
14    January 1, 2002.   The  Department  may  implement  this  Act
15    through  the  use  of  emergency rules in accordance with the
16    provisions of Section 5-45  of  the  Illinois  Administrative
17    Procedure  Act.   For purposes of the Illinois Administrative
18    Procedure Act, the adoption of rules to  implement  this  Act
19    shall  be  deemed  an  emergency and necessary for the public
20    interest, safety, and welfare.

21        Section 910.  The Use Tax  Act  is  amended  by  changing
22    Section 3-5 as follows:

23        (35 ILCS 105/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5)
24        Sec.  3-5.   Exemptions.   Use  of the following tangible
25    personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
26        (1)  Personal  property  purchased  from  a  corporation,
27    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
28    organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
29    organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
30    for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or  older  if  the
31    personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
 
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 1    purpose of resale by the enterprise.
 2        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
 3    Illinois  county  fair  association  for  use  in conducting,
 4    operating, or promoting the county fair.
 5        (3)  Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts
 6    or cultural organization that establishes, by proof  required
 7    by  the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption
 8    under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
 9    is organized and operated for the presentation or support  of
10    arts or cultural programming, activities, or services.  These
11    organizations  include,  but  are  not  limited to, music and
12    dramatic arts organizations such as symphony  orchestras  and
13    theatrical  groups,  arts and cultural service organizations,
14    local arts councils, visual  arts  organizations,  and  media
15    arts organizations.
16        (4)  Personal  property purchased by a governmental body,
17    by  a  corporation,  society,  association,  foundation,   or
18    institution    organized   and   operated   exclusively   for
19    charitable, religious,  or  educational  purposes,  or  by  a
20    not-for-profit corporation, society, association, foundation,
21    institution, or organization that has no compensated officers
22    or employees and that is organized and operated primarily for
23    the recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
24    liability  company  may  qualify for the exemption under this
25    paragraph only if the limited liability company is  organized
26    and  operated  exclusively  for  educational purposes. On and
27    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
28    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
29    active  exemption  identification  number   issued   by   the
30    Department.
31        (5)  A passenger car that is a replacement vehicle to the
32    extent  that  the purchase price of the car is subject to the
33    Replacement Vehicle Tax.
34        (6)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
 
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 1    repair  and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,   and
 2    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
 3    the  purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for   graphic   arts
 4    production,  and  including machinery and equipment purchased
 5    for lease.
 6        (7)  Farm chemicals.
 7        (8)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
 8    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
 9    government of the United States of America, or the government
10    of any foreign country, and bullion.
11        (9)  Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
12    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
13    secondary school located in Illinois.
14        (10)  A motor vehicle of  the  first  division,  a  motor
15    vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
16    vehicle  designed  or permanently converted to provide living
17    quarters for  recreational,  camping,  or  travel  use,  with
18    direct  walk through to the living quarters from the driver's
19    seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division  that  is  of
20    the  van configuration designed for the transportation of not
21    less than 7 nor  more  than  16  passengers,  as  defined  in
22    Section  1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
23    automobile renting, as  defined  in  the  Automobile  Renting
24    Occupation and Use Tax Act.
25        (11)  Farm  machinery  and  equipment, both new and used,
26    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
27    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
28    or   State   or   federal  agricultural  programs,  including
29    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
30    including machinery and equipment purchased  for  lease,  and
31    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
32    the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, farm machinery and agricultural
33    chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons  required
34    to  be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
 
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 1    Code, but excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required  to  be
 2    registered  under  the  Illinois  Vehicle Code. Horticultural
 3    polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating,  growing,  or
 4    overwintering  plants  shall be considered farm machinery and
 5    equipment under this item (11). Agricultural chemical  tender
 6    tanks  and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
 7    a motor vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and  units  sold
 8    mounted  on  a  motor  vehicle required to be licensed if the
 9    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
10        Farm machinery  and  equipment  shall  include  precision
11    farming  equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to be
12    installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but  not
13    limited   to,   tractors,   harvesters,  sprayers,  planters,
14    seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment  includes,
15    but  is  not  limited  to,  soil  testing sensors, computers,
16    monitors, software, global positioning and  mapping  systems,
17    and other such equipment.
18        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  also includes computers,
19    sensors, software, and related equipment  used  primarily  in
20    the  computer-assisted  operation  of  production agriculture
21    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
22    limited to, the collection, monitoring,  and  correlation  of
23    animal  and  crop  data for the purpose of formulating animal
24    diets and agricultural chemicals.  This item (11)  is  exempt
25    from the provisions of Section 3-90.
26        (12)  Fuel  and  petroleum products sold to or used by an
27    air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be  used  for
28    consumption,  shipment,  or  storage  in  the  conduct of its
29    business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined  for
30    or  returning from a location or locations outside the United
31    States without regard  to  previous  or  subsequent  domestic
32    stopovers.
33        (13)  Proceeds  of  mandatory  service charges separately
34    stated on customers' bills for the purchase  and  consumption
 
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 1    of food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to
 2    the  extent  that  the  proceeds of the service charge are in
 3    fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips  to  the
 4    employees  who  participate  directly  in preparing, serving,
 5    hosting or cleaning up the food  or  beverage  function  with
 6    respect to which the service charge is imposed.
 7        (14)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
 8    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
 9    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
10    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
11    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
12    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
13    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
14    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
15    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
16        (15)  Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,  including
17    repair  and  replacement  parts, both new and used, including
18    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
19    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
20    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
21    for lease.
22        (16)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
23    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
24    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
25    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
26    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
27        (17)  Distillation  machinery  and  equipment,  sold as a
28    unit  or  kit,  assembled  or  installed  by  the   retailer,
29    certified  by  the user to be used only for the production of
30    ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption as motor fuel
31    or as a component of motor fuel for the personal use  of  the
32    user, and not subject to sale or resale.
33        (18)  Manufacturing    and   assembling   machinery   and
34    equipment used primarily in the process of  manufacturing  or
 
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 1    assembling tangible personal property for wholesale or retail
 2    sale or lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by
 3    the  manufacturer  or  by  some  other  person,  whether  the
 4    materials  used  in the process are owned by the manufacturer
 5    or some other person, or whether that sale or lease  is  made
 6    apart  from or as an incident to the seller's engaging in the
 7    service occupation of producing machines, tools, dies,  jigs,
 8    patterns,  gauges,  or  other  similar items of no commercial
 9    value on special order for a particular purchaser.
10        (19)  Personal  property  delivered  to  a  purchaser  or
11    purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
12    that personal property was  received  by  a  florist  located
13    outside  Illinois  who  has a florist located inside Illinois
14    deliver the personal property.
15        (20)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
16    for direct agricultural production.
17        (21)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
18    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
19    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
20    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
21    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
22    racing for prizes.
23        (22)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
24    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
25    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients  purchased  by  a
26    lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
27    longer  executed  or  in  effect at the time the lessor would
28    otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by  this  Act,  to  a
29    hospital    that  has  been  issued  an  active tax exemption
30    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
31    the  Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Act.   If  the equipment is
32    leased in a manner that does not qualify for  this  exemption
33    or  is  used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall
34    be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or  the  Service
 
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 1    Use  Tax  Act,  as  the case may be, based on the fair market
 2    value of the property at  the  time  the  non-qualifying  use
 3    occurs.   No  lessor  shall  collect or attempt to collect an
 4    amount (however designated) that purports to  reimburse  that
 5    lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax
 6    Act,  as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the
 7    lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects any such amount from
 8    the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right  to  claim  a
 9    refund  of  that  amount  from the lessor.  If, however, that
10    amount is not refunded to the  lessee  for  any  reason,  the
11    lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
12        (23)  Personal  property purchased by a lessor who leases
13    the property, under a lease of  one year or  longer  executed
14    or  in  effect  at  the  time  the  lessor would otherwise be
15    subject to the tax imposed by this  Act,  to  a  governmental
16    body  that  has  been  issued  an  active sales tax exemption
17    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
18    the  Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased
19    in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or  used
20    in  any  other  non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable
21    for the tax imposed under this Act or  the  Service  Use  Tax
22    Act,  as  the  case may be, based on the fair market value of
23    the property at the time the non-qualifying use  occurs.   No
24    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
25    designated)  that  purports  to reimburse that lessor for the
26    tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax  Act,  as  the
27    case  may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.  If
28    a lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee,
29    the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
30    amount from the lessor.  If,  however,  that  amount  is  not
31    refunded  to  the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
32    to pay that amount to the Department.
33        (24)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
34    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
 
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 1    before December 31, 2004, personal property that  is  donated
 2    for  disaster  relief  to  be  used  in  a State or federally
 3    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
 4    manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State  to
 5    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
 6    institution  that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax exemption
 7    identification number by the Department that assists  victims
 8    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
 9        (25)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
10    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
11    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is used in
12    the performance of  infrastructure  repairs  in  this  State,
13    including  but  not  limited  to municipal roads and streets,
14    access roads, bridges,  sidewalks,  waste  disposal  systems,
15    water  and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution and
16    purification facilities, storm water drainage  and  retention
17    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
18    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
19    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
20    located  in  the declared disaster area within 6 months after
21    the disaster.
22        (26)  Beginning  July  1,  1999,  game  or   game   birds
23    purchased  at  a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or
24    an "exotic game hunting area" as those terms are used in  the
25    Wildlife  Code  or  at  a  hunting enclosure approved through
26    rules adopted by the Department of Natural  Resources.   This
27    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
28        (27)  A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
29    1-146  of  the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, that is donated to a
30    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
31    foundation,  or  institution  that  is  determined   by   the
32    Department  to  be  organized  and  operated  exclusively for
33    educational purposes.  For purposes  of  this  exemption,  "a
34    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
 
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 1    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
 2    for  educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported public
 3    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
 4    useful branches of  learning  by  methods  common  to  public
 5    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
 6    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
 7    schools,  and  vocational  or technical schools or institutes
 8    organized and operated exclusively to  provide  a  course  of
 9    study  of  not  less  than  6  weeks duration and designed to
10    prepare individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a  manual,
11    technical,  mechanical,  industrial,  business, or commercial
12    occupation.
13        (28)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,   personal  property,
14    including food, purchased through fundraising events for  the
15    benefit  of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or secondary
16    school, a group of those  schools,  or  one  or  more  school
17    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
18    by  the school district that consists primarily of volunteers
19    and includes parents and teachers  of  the  school  children.
20    This  paragraph  does not apply to fundraising events (i) for
21    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
22    fundraising entity purchases the personal  property  sold  at
23    the  events  from  another individual or entity that sold the
24    property for the purpose of resale by the fundraising  entity
25    and  that  profits  from  the sale to the fundraising entity.
26    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
27        (29)  Beginning January 1, 2000, new  or  used  automatic
28    vending   machines  that  prepare  and  serve  hot  food  and
29    beverages, including  coffee,  soup,  and  other  items,  and
30    replacement  parts  for  these  machines.   This paragraph is
31    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
32        (30)  Food for human consumption that is to  be  consumed
33    off  the  premises  where  it  is  sold (other than alcoholic
34    beverages, soft drinks, and food that has been  prepared  for
 
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 1    immediate  consumption)  and prescription and nonprescription
 2    medicines, drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin,  urine
 3    testing  materials,  syringes, and needles used by diabetics,
 4    for human use, when purchased for use by a  person  receiving
 5    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
 6    Code  who  resides  in a licensed long-term care facility, as
 7    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
 8        (31)  Beginning on the effective date of this  amendatory
 9    Act  of  the  92nd General Assembly and ending on the date on
10    which electricity is first generated at  a  new  plant  built
11    under  the  incentives  provided  under  the Energy Resources
12    Policy Act, the construction of which begins on or after July
13    1, 2001, machinery and equipment used at that plant primarily
14    in the generation or production of electricity for  wholesale
15    or  retail  sale,  including repair and replacement parts and
16    equipment,  both  new  and   used,   including   repair   and
17    replacement   parts   manufactured   on  special  order,  and
18    including machinery and equipment purchased  for  lease,  but
19    excluding  motor vehicles required to be registered under the
20    Illinois Vehicle Code.
21    (Source: P.A. 90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552,  eff.  12-12-97;
22    90-605,  eff.  6-30-98;  91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200, eff.
23    7-20-99; 91-439, eff. 8-6-99; 91-637, eff.  8-20-99;  91-644,
24    eff. 8-20-99; 91-901, eff. 1-1-01.)

25        Section  915.   The  Service  Use  Tax  Act is amended by
26    changing Section 3-5 as follows:

27        (35 ILCS 110/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
28        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  Use  of  the  following  tangible
29    personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
30        (1)  Personal  property  purchased  from  a  corporation,
31    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
32    organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
 
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 1    organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
 2    for  the  benefit  of persons 65 years of age or older if the
 3    personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
 4    purpose of resale by the enterprise.
 5        (2)  Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
 6    county fair association for use in conducting, operating,  or
 7    promoting the county fair.
 8        (3)  Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts
 9    or  cultural organization that establishes, by proof required
10    by the Department by rule, that it has received an  exemption
11    under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
12    is  organized and operated for the presentation or support of
13    arts or cultural programming, activities, or services.  These
14    organizations include, but are  not  limited  to,  music  and
15    dramatic  arts  organizations such as symphony orchestras and
16    theatrical groups, arts and cultural  service  organizations,
17    local  arts  councils,  visual  arts organizations, and media
18    arts organizations.
19        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
20    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
21    government of the United States of America, or the government
22    of any foreign country, and bullion.
23        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
24    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
25    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
26    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
27    graphic arts production.
28        (6)  Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
29    student   organization   affiliated  with  an  elementary  or
30    secondary school located in Illinois.
31        (7)  Farm machinery and equipment,  both  new  and  used,
32    including  that  manufactured  on special order, certified by
33    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
34    or  State  or  federal   agricultural   programs,   including
 
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 1    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
 2    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, and
 3    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
 4    the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm  machinery  and  agricultural
 5    chemical  and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
 6    to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois  Vehicle
 7    Code,  but  excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required to be
 8    registered under the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code.  Horticultural
 9    polyhouses  or  hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
10    overwintering plants shall be considered farm  machinery  and
11    equipment  under  this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
12    tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately  from
13    a  motor  vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and units sold
14    mounted on a motor vehicle required to  be  licensed  if  the
15    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
16        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  shall  include precision
17    farming equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to  be
18    installed  on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
19    limited  to,  tractors,   harvesters,   sprayers,   planters,
20    seeders,  or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
21    but is not  limited  to,  soil  testing  sensors,  computers,
22    monitors,  software,  global positioning and mapping systems,
23    and other such equipment.
24        Farm machinery and  equipment  also  includes  computers,
25    sensors,  software,  and  related equipment used primarily in
26    the computer-assisted  operation  of  production  agriculture
27    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
28    limited  to,  the  collection, monitoring, and correlation of
29    animal and crop data for the purpose  of  formulating  animal
30    diets  and  agricultural  chemicals.  This item (7) is exempt
31    from the provisions of Section 3-75.
32        (8)  Fuel and petroleum products sold to or  used  by  an
33    air  common  carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
34    consumption, shipment, or  storage  in  the  conduct  of  its
 
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 1    business  as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
 2    or returning from a location or locations outside the  United
 3    States  without  regard  to  previous  or subsequent domestic
 4    stopovers.
 5        (9)  Proceeds of  mandatory  service  charges  separately
 6    stated  on  customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
 7    of food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase
 8    of a service from  a  serviceman,  to  the  extent  that  the
 9    proceeds  of  the  service  charge are in fact turned over as
10    tips or as  a  substitute  for  tips  to  the  employees  who
11    participate   directly  in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or
12    cleaning up the food or beverage  function  with  respect  to
13    which the service charge is imposed.
14        (10)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
15    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
16    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
17    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
18    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
19    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
20    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
21    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
22    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
23        (11)  Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
24    and equipment, including repair and replacement  parts,  both
25    new  and  used, including that manufactured on special order,
26    certified  by  the  purchaser  to  be  used   primarily   for
27    photoprocessing,  and including photoprocessing machinery and
28    equipment purchased for lease.
29        (12)  Coal  exploration,  mining,   offhighway   hauling,
30    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
31    replacement  parts  and  equipment,  and  including equipment
32    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
33    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
34        (13)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
 
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 1    for direct agricultural production.
 2        (14)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
 3    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
 4    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
 5    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
 6    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
 7    racing for prizes.
 8        (15)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
 9    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
10    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients  purchased  by  a
11    lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
12    longer  executed  or  in  effect at the time the lessor would
13    otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by  this  Act,  to  a
14    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
15    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
16    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
17    in a manner that does not qualify for this  exemption  or  is
18    used  in  any  other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be
19    liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,
20    as the case may be, based on the fair  market  value  of  the
21    property  at  the  time  the  non-qualifying  use occurs.  No
22    lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
23    designated) that purports to reimburse that  lessor  for  the
24    tax  imposed  by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
25    be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor.  If a  lessor
26    improperly  collects  any  such  amount  from the lessee, the
27    lessee shall have a legal right to claim  a  refund  of  that
28    amount  from  the  lessor.   If,  however, that amount is not
29    refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor  is  liable
30    to pay that amount to the Department.
31        (16)  Personal  property purchased by a lessor who leases
32    the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
33    in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise  be  subject
34    to  the  tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that
 
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 1    has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
 2    by  the  Department  under  Section  1g  of  the   Retailers'
 3    Occupation  Tax  Act.   If the property is leased in a manner
 4    that does not qualify for this exemption or is  used  in  any
 5    other  non-exempt  manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
 6    tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,  as  the  case
 7    may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
 8    time  the non-qualifying use occurs.  No lessor shall collect
 9    or attempt to collect an  amount  (however  designated)  that
10    purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
11    Act  or  the  Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has
12    not been paid by the lessor.  If a lessor improperly collects
13    any such amount from the lessee,  the  lessee  shall  have  a
14    legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
15    If,  however,  that  amount is not refunded to the lessee for
16    any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that  amount  to  the
17    Department.
18        (17)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
19    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
20    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is donated
21    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
22    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
23    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
24    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
25    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
26    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
27    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
28        (18)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
29    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
30    before December 31, 2004, personal property that is  used  in
31    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
32    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
33    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
34    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
 
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 1    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
 2    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
 3    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
 4    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
 5    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
 6    the disaster.
 7        (19)  Beginning   July   1,  1999,  game  or  game  birds
 8    purchased at a "game breeding and hunting preserve  area"  or
 9    an  "exotic game hunting area" as those terms are used in the
10    Wildlife Code or at  a  hunting  enclosure  approved  through
11    rules  adopted  by the Department of Natural Resources.  This
12    paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
13        (20) (19)  A motor vehicle, as that term  is  defined  in
14    Section  1-146  of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated
15    to  a  corporation,  limited  liability   company,   society,
16    association, foundation, or institution that is determined by
17    the  Department  to be organized and operated exclusively for
18    educational purposes.  For purposes  of  this  exemption,  "a
19    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
20    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
21    for  educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported public
22    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
23    useful branches of  learning  by  methods  common  to  public
24    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
25    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
26    schools,  and  vocational  or technical schools or institutes
27    organized and operated exclusively to  provide  a  course  of
28    study  of  not  less  than  6  weeks duration and designed to
29    prepare individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a  manual,
30    technical,  mechanical,  industrial,  business, or commercial
31    occupation.
32        (21) (20)  Beginning January 1, 2000,  personal property,
33    including food, purchased through fundraising events for  the
34    benefit  of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or secondary
 
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 1    school, a group of those  schools,  or  one  or  more  school
 2    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
 3    by  the school district that consists primarily of volunteers
 4    and includes parents and teachers  of  the  school  children.
 5    This  paragraph  does not apply to fundraising events (i) for
 6    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
 7    fundraising entity purchases the personal  property  sold  at
 8    the  events  from  another individual or entity that sold the
 9    property for the purpose of resale by the fundraising  entity
10    and  that  profits  from  the sale to the fundraising entity.
11    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
12        (22)  (19)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,  new  or   used
13    automatic  vending  machines  that prepare and serve hot food
14    and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other  items,  and
15    replacement  parts  for  these  machines.   This paragraph is
16    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
17        (23)  Beginning on the effective date of this  amendatory
18    Act  of  the  92nd General Assembly and ending on the date on
19    which electricity is first generated at  a  new  plant  built
20    under  the  incentives  provided  under  the Energy Resources
21    Policy Act, the construction of which begins on or after July
22    1, 2001, machinery and equipment used at that plant primarily
23    in the generation or production of electricity for  wholesale
24    or  retail  sale,  including repair and replacement parts and
25    equipment,  both  new  and   used,   including   repair   and
26    replacement   parts   manufactured   on  special  order,  and
27    including machinery and equipment purchased  for  lease,  but
28    excluding  motor vehicles required to be registered under the
29    Illinois Vehicle Code.
30    (Source: P.A. 90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552,  eff.  12-12-97;
31    90-605,  eff.  6-30-98;  91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200, eff.
32    7-20-99; 91-439, eff. 8-6-99; 91-637, eff.  8-20-99;  91-644,
33    eff. 8-20-99; revised 9-29-99.)
 
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 1        Section  920.   The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended
 2    by changing Section 3-5 as follows:

 3        (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
 4        Sec. 3-5.  Exemptions.  The following  tangible  personal
 5    property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
 6        (1)  Personal  property  sold  by a corporation, society,
 7    association, foundation, institution, or organization,  other
 8    than  a  limited  liability  company,  that  is organized and
 9    operated as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for  the
10    benefit  of  persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
11    property was not purchased by the enterprise for the  purpose
12    of resale by the enterprise.
13        (2)  Personal  property  purchased  by  a  not-for-profit
14    Illinois  county  fair  association  for  use  in conducting,
15    operating, or promoting the county fair.
16        (3)  Personal property purchased  by  any  not-for-profit
17    arts  or  cultural  organization  that  establishes, by proof
18    required by the Department by rule, that it has  received  an
19    exemption   under  Section  501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
20    Code and that is organized and operated for the  presentation
21    or  support  of  arts or cultural programming, activities, or
22    services.  These organizations include, but are  not  limited
23    to,  music  and  dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
24    orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and  cultural  service
25    organizations,    local    arts    councils,    visual   arts
26    organizations, and media arts organizations.
27        (4)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold  or
28    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
29    government of the United States of America, or the government
30    of any foreign country, and bullion.
31        (5)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
32    repair   and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,  and
33    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
 
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 1    lease, certified by the purchaser to be  used  primarily  for
 2    graphic arts production.
 3        (6)  Personal   property   sold  by  a  teacher-sponsored
 4    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
 5    secondary school located in Illinois.
 6        (7)  Farm  machinery  and  equipment,  both new and used,
 7    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
 8    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
 9    or   State   or   federal  agricultural  programs,  including
10    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
11    including machinery and equipment purchased  for  lease,  and
12    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
13    the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, farm machinery and agricultural
14    chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons  required
15    to  be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
16    Code, but excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required  to  be
17    registered  under  the  Illinois  Vehicle Code. Horticultural
18    polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating,  growing,  or
19    overwintering  plants  shall be considered farm machinery and
20    equipment under this item (7). Agricultural  chemical  tender
21    tanks  and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
22    a motor vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and  units  sold
23    mounted  on  a  motor  vehicle required to be licensed if the
24    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
25        Farm machinery  and  equipment  shall  include  precision
26    farming  equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to be
27    installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but  not
28    limited   to,   tractors,   harvesters,  sprayers,  planters,
29    seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment  includes,
30    but  is  not  limited  to,  soil  testing sensors, computers,
31    monitors, software, global positioning and  mapping  systems,
32    and other such equipment.
33        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  also includes computers,
34    sensors, software, and related equipment  used  primarily  in
 
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 1    the  computer-assisted  operation  of  production agriculture
 2    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
 3    limited to, the collection, monitoring,  and  correlation  of
 4    animal  and  crop  data for the purpose of formulating animal
 5    diets and agricultural chemicals.  This item  (7)  is  exempt
 6    from the provisions of Section 3-55.
 7        (8)  Fuel  and  petroleum  products sold to or used by an
 8    air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be  used  for
 9    consumption,  shipment,  or  storage  in  the  conduct of its
10    business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined  for
11    or  returning from a location or locations outside the United
12    States without regard  to  previous  or  subsequent  domestic
13    stopovers.
14        (9)  Proceeds  of  mandatory  service  charges separately
15    stated on customers' bills for the purchase  and  consumption
16    of food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
17    service  charge  are  in  fact  turned  over  as tips or as a
18    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
19    in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning  up  the  food  or
20    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
21    imposed.
22        (10)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
23    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
24    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
25    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
26    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
27    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
28    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
29    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
30    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
31        (11)  Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,  including
32    repair  and  replacement  parts, both new and used, including
33    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
34    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
 
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 1    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
 2    for lease.
 3        (12)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
 4    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
 5    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
 6    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
 7    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
 8        (13)  Food  for  human consumption that is to be consumed
 9    off the premises where  it  is  sold  (other  than  alcoholic
10    beverages,  soft  drinks  and food that has been prepared for
11    immediate consumption) and prescription and  non-prescription
12    medicines,  drugs,  medical  appliances,  and  insulin, urine
13    testing materials, syringes, and needles used  by  diabetics,
14    for  human  use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
15    medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
16    Code who resides in a licensed long-term  care  facility,  as
17    defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
18        (14)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
19    for direct agricultural production.
20        (15)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
21    meeting  the  requirements  of  any of the Arabian Horse Club
22    Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club,  American  Quarter
23    Horse  Association,  United  States  Trotting Association, or
24    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
25    racing for prizes.
26        (16)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
27    any hospital purpose and equipment  used  in  the  diagnosis,
28    analysis,  or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
29    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
30    executed or in effect at the  time  of  the  purchase,  to  a
31    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
32    identification  number  by the Department under Section 1g of
33    the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
34        (17)  Personal property sold to a lessor who  leases  the
 
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 1    property,  under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
 2    effect at the time of the purchase, to  a  governmental  body
 3    that  has  been issued an active tax exemption identification
 4    number by the Department under Section 1g of  the  Retailers'
 5    Occupation Tax Act.
 6        (18)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
 7    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
 8    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is donated
 9    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
10    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
11    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
12    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
13    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
14    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
15    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
16        (19)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
17    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
18    before December 31, 2004, personal property that is  used  in
19    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
20    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
21    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
22    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
23    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
24    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
25    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
26    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
27    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
28    the disaster.
29        (20)  Beginning  July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at
30    a "game breeding and hunting preserve  area"  or  an  "exotic
31    game  hunting  area"  as those terms are used in the Wildlife
32    Code or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted
33    by the Department of Natural Resources.   This  paragraph  is
34    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
 
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 1        (21)  (20)  A  motor  vehicle, as that term is defined in
 2    Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that  is  donated
 3    to   a   corporation,  limited  liability  company,  society,
 4    association, foundation, or institution that is determined by
 5    the Department to be organized and operated  exclusively  for
 6    educational  purposes.   For  purposes  of this exemption, "a
 7    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
 8    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
 9    for educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported  public
10    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
11    useful  branches  of  learning  by  methods  common to public
12    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
13    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
14    schools, and vocational or technical  schools  or  institutes
15    organized  and  operated  exclusively  to provide a course of
16    study of not less than  6  weeks  duration  and  designed  to
17    prepare  individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a manual,
18    technical, mechanical, industrial,  business,  or  commercial
19    occupation.
20        (22) (21)  Beginning January 1, 2000,  personal property,
21    including  food, purchased through fundraising events for the
22    benefit of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or  secondary
23    school,  a  group  of  those  schools,  or one or more school
24    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
25    by the school district that consists primarily of  volunteers
26    and  includes  parents  and  teachers of the school children.
27    This paragraph does not apply to fundraising events  (i)  for
28    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
29    fundraising  entity  purchases  the personal property sold at
30    the events from another individual or entity  that  sold  the
31    property  for the purpose of resale by the fundraising entity
32    and that profits from the sale  to  the  fundraising  entity.
33    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
34        (23)   (20)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,  new  or  used
 
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 1    automatic vending machines that prepare and  serve  hot  food
 2    and  beverages,  including coffee, soup, and other items, and
 3    replacement parts for these  machines.    This  paragraph  is
 4    exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
 5        (24)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
 6    Act of the 92nd General Assembly and ending on  the  date  on
 7    which  electricity  is  first  generated at a new plant built
 8    under the incentives  provided  under  the  Energy  Resources
 9    Policy Act, the construction of which begins on or after July
10    1, 2001, machinery and equipment used at that plant primarily
11    in  the generation or production of electricity for wholesale
12    or retail sale, including repair and  replacement  parts  and
13    equipment,   both   new   and   used,  including  repair  and
14    replacement  parts  manufactured  on   special   order,   and
15    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, but
16    excluding motor vehicles required to be registered under  the
17    Illinois Vehicle Code.
18    (Source: P.A.  90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-552,  eff. 12-12-97;
19    90-605, eff.  6-30-98;  91-51,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-200,  eff.
20    7-20-99;  91-439,  eff. 8-6-99; 91-533, eff. 8-13-99; 91-637,
21    eff. 8-20-99; 91-644, eff. 8-20-99; revised 9-29-99.)

22        Section  925.   The  Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Act  is
23    amended by changing Section 2-5 as follows:

24        (35 ILCS 120/2-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
25        Sec. 2-5.  Exemptions.  Gross receipts from proceeds from
26    the sale of the  following  tangible  personal  property  are
27    exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
28        (1)  Farm chemicals.
29        (2)  Farm  machinery  and  equipment,  both new and used,
30    including that manufactured on special  order,  certified  by
31    the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
32    or   State   or   federal  agricultural  programs,  including
 
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 1    individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
 2    including machinery and equipment purchased  for  lease,  and
 3    including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
 4    the  Illinois  Vehicle  Code, farm machinery and agricultural
 5    chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons  required
 6    to  be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
 7    Code, but excluding  other  motor  vehicles  required  to  be
 8    registered  under  the  Illinois  Vehicle Code. Horticultural
 9    polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating,  growing,  or
10    overwintering  plants  shall be considered farm machinery and
11    equipment under this item (2). Agricultural  chemical  tender
12    tanks  and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
13    a motor vehicle  required  to  be  licensed  and  units  sold
14    mounted  on  a  motor vehicle required to be licensed, if the
15    selling price of the tender is separately stated.
16        Farm machinery  and  equipment  shall  include  precision
17    farming  equipment  that  is  installed  or  purchased  to be
18    installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but  not
19    limited   to,   tractors,   harvesters,  sprayers,  planters,
20    seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment  includes,
21    but  is  not  limited  to,  soil  testing sensors, computers,
22    monitors, software, global positioning and  mapping  systems,
23    and other such equipment.
24        Farm  machinery  and  equipment  also includes computers,
25    sensors, software, and related equipment  used  primarily  in
26    the  computer-assisted  operation  of  production agriculture
27    facilities,  equipment,  and  activities  such  as,  but  not
28    limited to, the collection, monitoring,  and  correlation  of
29    animal  and  crop  data for the purpose of formulating animal
30    diets and agricultural chemicals.  This item  (7)  is  exempt
31    from the provisions of Section 2-70.
32        (3)  Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a unit
33    or  kit, assembled or installed by the retailer, certified by
34    the user to be used only for the production of ethyl  alcohol
 
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 1    that  will  be  used  for  consumption  as motor fuel or as a
 2    component of motor fuel for the personal use of the user, and
 3    not subject to sale or resale.
 4        (4)  Graphic  arts  machinery  and  equipment,  including
 5    repair  and  replacement  parts,  both  new  and  used,   and
 6    including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
 7    lease,  certified  by  the purchaser to be used primarily for
 8    graphic arts production.
 9        (5)  A motor vehicle  of  the  first  division,  a  motor
10    vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
11    vehicle  designed  or permanently converted to provide living
12    quarters for  recreational,  camping,  or  travel  use,  with
13    direct  walk  through  access to the living quarters from the
14    driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that
15    is of the van configuration designed for  the  transportation
16    of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
17    Section  1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
18    automobile renting, as  defined  in  the  Automobile  Renting
19    Occupation and Use Tax Act.
20        (6)  Personal   property   sold  by  a  teacher-sponsored
21    student  organization  affiliated  with  an   elementary   or
22    secondary school located in Illinois.
23        (7)  Proceeds  of  that portion of the selling price of a
24    passenger car the sale of which is subject to the Replacement
25    Vehicle Tax.
26        (8)  Personal property sold to an  Illinois  county  fair
27    association  for  use  in conducting, operating, or promoting
28    the county fair.
29        (9)  Personal property sold to a not-for-profit  arts  or
30    cultural  organization that establishes, by proof required by
31    the Department by rule, that it  has  received  an  exemption
32    under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that
33    is  organized and operated for the presentation or support of
34    arts or cultural programming, activities, or services.  These
 
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 1    organizations include, but are  not  limited  to,  music  and
 2    dramatic  arts  organizations such as symphony orchestras and
 3    theatrical groups, arts and cultural  service  organizations,
 4    local  arts  councils,  visual  arts organizations, and media
 5    arts organizations.
 6        (10)  Personal property sold by a  corporation,  society,
 7    association,  foundation, institution, or organization, other
 8    than a limited  liability  company,  that  is  organized  and
 9    operated  as  a  not-for-profit  service  enterprise  for the
10    benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if  the  personal
11    property  was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
12    of resale by the enterprise.
13        (11)  Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
14    corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
15    organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
16    or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit  corporation,
17    society,    association,    foundation,    institution,    or
18    organization  that  has  no compensated officers or employees
19    and  that  is  organized  and  operated  primarily  for   the
20    recreation  of  persons  55  years of age or older. A limited
21    liability company may qualify for the  exemption  under  this
22    paragraph  only if the limited liability company is organized
23    and operated exclusively for  educational  purposes.  On  and
24    after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
25    this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
26    active identification number issued by the Department.
27        (12)  Personal  property  sold to interstate carriers for
28    hire for use as rolling stock moving in  interstate  commerce
29    or  to lessors under leases of one year or longer executed or
30    in effect at the time of purchase by interstate carriers  for
31    hire  for  use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
32    and equipment  operated  by  a  telecommunications  provider,
33    licensed  as  a  common carrier by the Federal Communications
34    Commission, which is permanently installed in or  affixed  to
 
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 1    aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
 2        (13)  Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers
 3    of  tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
 4    carriers  for  hire  for  use  as  rolling  stock  moving  in
 5    interstate   commerce   and   equipment   operated    by    a
 6    telecommunications  provider, licensed as a common carrier by
 7    the Federal Communications Commission, which  is  permanently
 8    installed  in  or  affixed  to  aircraft moving in interstate
 9    commerce.
10        (14)  Machinery and equipment that will be  used  by  the
11    purchaser,  or  a  lessee  of the purchaser, primarily in the
12    process of  manufacturing  or  assembling  tangible  personal
13    property  for  wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
14    sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
15    other person, whether the materials used in the  process  are
16    owned  by  the  manufacturer or some other person, or whether
17    the sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
18    seller's engaging in  the  service  occupation  of  producing
19    machines,  tools,  dies,  jigs,  patterns,  gauges,  or other
20    similar items of no commercial value on special order  for  a
21    particular purchaser.
22        (15)  Proceeds  of  mandatory  service charges separately
23    stated on customers' bills for purchase  and  consumption  of
24    food  and  beverages,  to the extent that the proceeds of the
25    service charge are in fact  turned  over  as  tips  or  as  a
26    substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
27    in  preparing,  serving,  hosting  or cleaning up the food or
28    beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
29    imposed.
30        (16)  Petroleum products  sold  to  a  purchaser  if  the
31    seller  is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
32    purchaser.
33        (17)  Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier
34    by rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
 
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 1    property in Illinois and that  transports  the  property,  or
 2    shares  with  another common carrier in the transportation of
 3    the property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform  bill  of
 4    lading  showing  the seller of the property as the shipper or
 5    consignor of the property to a destination outside  Illinois,
 6    for use outside Illinois.
 7        (18)  Legal  tender,  currency,  medallions,  or  gold or
 8    silver  coinage  issued  by  the  State  of   Illinois,   the
 9    government of the United States of America, or the government
10    of any foreign country, and bullion.
11        (19)  Oil  field  exploration,  drilling,  and production
12    equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
13    cable tool rigs, and workover rigs,  (ii)  pipe  and  tubular
14    goods,  including  casing  and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
15    pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines,  (v)  any
16    individual   replacement  part  for  oil  field  exploration,
17    drilling, and production equipment, and  (vi)  machinery  and
18    equipment  purchased  for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
19    required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
20        (20)  Photoprocessing machinery and equipment,  including
21    repair  and  replacement  parts, both new and used, including
22    that  manufactured  on  special  order,  certified   by   the
23    purchaser  to  be  used  primarily  for  photoprocessing, and
24    including photoprocessing machinery and  equipment  purchased
25    for lease.
26        (21)  Coal   exploration,   mining,  offhighway  hauling,
27    processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
28    replacement parts  and  equipment,  and  including  equipment
29    purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
30    be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
31        (22)  Fuel  and  petroleum products sold to or used by an
32    air  carrier,  certified  by  the  carrier  to  be  used  for
33    consumption, shipment, or  storage  in  the  conduct  of  its
34    business  as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
 
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 1    or returning from a location or locations outside the  United
 2    States  without  regard  to  previous  or subsequent domestic
 3    stopovers.
 4        (23)  A  transaction  in  which  the  purchase  order  is
 5    received by a florist who is located  outside  Illinois,  but
 6    who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property to
 7    the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
 8        (24)  Fuel  consumed  or  used in the operation of ships,
 9    barges, or vessels that are used  primarily  in  or  for  the
10    transportation  of  property or the conveyance of persons for
11    hire on rivers  bordering  on  this  State  if  the  fuel  is
12    delivered  by  the  seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or
13    vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
14        (25)  A motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident
15    even though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident
16    in this State, if the motor vehicle is not to  be  titled  in
17    this  State, and if a driveaway decal permit is issued to the
18    motor vehicle as provided in Section 3-603  of  the  Illinois
19    Vehicle  Code  or  if  the  nonresident purchaser has vehicle
20    registration plates to transfer to  the  motor  vehicle  upon
21    returning  to  his  or  her  home state.  The issuance of the
22    driveaway   decal   permit   or   having   the   out-of-state
23    registration plates to be transferred is prima facie evidence
24    that the motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.
25        (26)  Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
26    for direct agricultural production.
27        (27)  Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
28    meeting the requirements of any of  the  Arabian  Horse  Club
29    Registry  of  America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
30    Horse Association, United  States  Trotting  Association,  or
31    Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
32    racing for prizes.
33        (28)  Computers and communications equipment utilized for
34    any  hospital  purpose  and  equipment used in the diagnosis,
 
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 1    analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a  lessor
 2    who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
 3    executed  or  in  effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a
 4    hospital  that  has  been  issued  an  active  tax  exemption
 5    identification number by the Department under Section  1g  of
 6    this Act.
 7        (29)  Personal  property  sold to a lessor who leases the
 8    property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or  in
 9    effect  at  the  time of the purchase, to a governmental body
10    that has been issued an active tax  exemption  identification
11    number by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
12        (30)  Beginning  with  taxable  years  ending on or after
13    December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on  or
14    before  December  31, 2004, personal property that is donated
15    for disaster relief to  be  used  in  a  State  or  federally
16    declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
17    manufacturer  or retailer that is registered in this State to
18    a   corporation,   society,   association,   foundation,   or
19    institution that  has  been  issued  a  sales  tax  exemption
20    identification  number by the Department that assists victims
21    of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
22        (31)  Beginning with taxable years  ending  on  or  after
23    December  31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
24    before December 31, 2004, personal property that is  used  in
25    the  performance  of  infrastructure  repairs  in this State,
26    including but not limited to  municipal  roads  and  streets,
27    access  roads,  bridges,  sidewalks,  waste disposal systems,
28    water and  sewer  line  extensions,  water  distribution  and
29    purification  facilities,  storm water drainage and retention
30    facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
31    State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
32    Illinois  when  such  repairs  are  initiated  on  facilities
33    located in the declared disaster area within 6  months  after
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 1        (32)  Beginning  July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at
 2    a "game breeding and hunting preserve  area"  or  an  "exotic
 3    game  hunting  area"  as those terms are used in the Wildlife
 4    Code or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted
 5    by the Department of Natural Resources.   This  paragraph  is
 6    exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
 7        (33)  (32)  A  motor  vehicle, as that term is defined in
 8    Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that  is  donated
 9    to   a   corporation,  limited  liability  company,  society,
10    association, foundation, or institution that is determined by
11    the Department to be organized and operated  exclusively  for
12    educational  purposes.   For  purposes  of this exemption, "a
13    corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
14    foundation, or institution organized and operated exclusively
15    for educational  purposes"  means  all  tax-supported  public
16    schools, private schools that offer systematic instruction in
17    useful  branches  of  learning  by  methods  common to public
18    schools  and  that  compare  favorably  in  their  scope  and
19    intensity with the course of study presented in tax-supported
20    schools, and vocational or technical  schools  or  institutes
21    organized  and  operated  exclusively  to provide a course of
22    study of not less than  6  weeks  duration  and  designed  to
23    prepare  individuals to follow a trade or to pursue a manual,
24    technical, mechanical, industrial,  business,  or  commercial
25    occupation.
26        (34) (33)  Beginning January 1, 2000,  personal property,
27    including  food, purchased through fundraising events for the
28    benefit of  a  public  or  private  elementary  or  secondary
29    school,  a  group  of  those  schools,  or one or more school
30    districts if the events are sponsored by an entity recognized
31    by the school district that consists primarily of  volunteers
32    and  includes  parents  and  teachers of the school children.
33    This paragraph does not apply to fundraising events  (i)  for
34    the benefit of private home instruction or (ii) for which the
 
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 1    fundraising  entity  purchases  the personal property sold at
 2    the events from another individual or entity  that  sold  the
 3    property  for the purpose of resale by the fundraising entity
 4    and that profits from the sale  to  the  fundraising  entity.
 5    This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
 6        (35)   (32)  Beginning  January  1,  2000,  new  or  used
 7    automatic vending machines that prepare and  serve  hot  food
 8    and  beverages,  including coffee, soup, and other items, and
 9    replacement parts for these  machines.    This  paragraph  is
10    exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
11        (36)  Beginning  on the effective date of this amendatory
12    Act of the 92nd General Assembly and ending on  the  date  on
13    which  electricity  is  first  generated at a new plant built
14    under the incentives  provided  under  the  Energy  Resources
15    Policy Act, the construction of which begins on or after July
16    1, 2001, machinery and equipment used at that plant primarily
17    in  the generation or production of electricity for wholesale
18    or retail sale, including repair and  replacement  parts  and
19    equipment,   both   new   and   used,  including  repair  and
20    replacement  parts  manufactured  on   special   order,   and
21    including  machinery  and  equipment purchased for lease, but
22    excluding motor vehicles required to be registered under  the
23    Illinois Vehicle Code.
24    (Source: P.A.   90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-519,  eff.  6-1-98;
25    90-552, eff. 12-12-97;  90-605,  eff.  6-30-98;  91-51,  eff.
26    6-30-99;  91-200,  eff. 7-20-99; 91-439, eff. 8-6-99; 91-533,
27    eff. 8-13-99; 91-637, eff.  8-20-99;  91-644,  eff.  8-20-99;
28    revised 9-28-99.)

29        Section  930.   The  Property  Tax  Code  is  amended  by
30    changing Section 18-165 as follows:

31        (35 ILCS 200/18-165)
32        Sec. 18-165. Abatement of taxes.
 
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 1        (a)  Any  taxing  district,  upon  a majority vote of its
 2    governing authority, may,  after  the  determination  of  the
 3    assessed  valuation  of its property, order the clerk of that
 4    county to abate any portion of its  taxes  on  the  following
 5    types of property:
 6             (1)  Commercial and industrial.
 7                  (A)  The   property   of   any   commercial  or
 8             industrial firm, including but not  limited  to  the
 9             property   of   (i)   any  firm  that  is  used  for
10             collecting,  separating,  storing,   or   processing
11             recyclable  materials  or (ii) any firm that is used
12             for producing or  generating  electricity,  locating
13             within  the  taxing  district during the immediately
14             preceding year from  another  state,  territory,  or
15             country,  or  having  been newly created within this
16             State during  the  immediately  preceding  year,  or
17             expanding an existing facility.  The abatement shall
18             not  exceed  a  period of 10 years and the aggregate
19             amount of abated  taxes  for  all  taxing  districts
20             combined shall not exceed $4,000,000; or
21                  (B)  The   property   of   any   commercial  or
22             industrial development of at least 500 acres  having
23             been   created  within  the  taxing  district.   The
24             abatement shall not exceed a period of 20 years  and
25             the  aggregate amount of abated taxes for all taxing
26             districts combined shall not exceed $12,000,000.
27                  (C)  The  property   of   any   commercial   or
28             industrial  firm  currently  located  in  the taxing
29             district that expands a facility or  its  number  of
30             employees.  The  abatement shall not exceed a period
31             of 10 years and the aggregate amount of abated taxes
32             for all taxing districts combined shall  not  exceed
33             $4,000,000.  The  abatement period may be renewed at
34             the option of the taxing districts.
 
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 1             (2)  Horse  racing.   Any  property  in  the  taxing
 2        district which is used for the racing of horses and  upon
 3        which   capital  improvements  consisting  of  expansion,
 4        improvement or replacement of  existing  facilities  have
 5        been  made  since  July 1, 1987.  The combined abatements
 6        for such property from all taxing districts in any county
 7        shall not exceed $5,000,000 annually and shall not exceed
 8        a period of 10 years.
 9             (3)  Auto racing.  Any property designed exclusively
10        for the racing of motor vehicles.  Such  abatement  shall
11        not exceed a period of 10 years.
12             (4)  Academic  or  research institute.  The property
13        of any academic  or  research  institute  in  the  taxing
14        district   that  (i)  is  an  exempt  organization  under
15        paragraph (3) of Section 501(c) of the  Internal  Revenue
16        Code,  (ii)  operates  for  the  benefit of the public by
17        actually and exclusively performing  scientific  research
18        and  making  the results of the research available to the
19        interested public  on  a  non-discriminatory  basis,  and
20        (iii)  employs  more  than  100  employees.  An abatement
21        granted under this paragraph shall be  for  at  least  15
22        years  and  the  aggregate amount of abated taxes for all
23        taxing districts combined shall not exceed $5,000,000.
24             (5)  Housing for older persons.  Any property in the
25        taxing district that is devoted exclusively to affordable
26        housing for  older  households.   For  purposes  of  this
27        paragraph,  "older households" means those households (i)
28        living in housing provided under  any  State  or  federal
29        program that the Department of Human Rights determines is
30        specifically  designed  and  operated  to  assist elderly
31        persons and is solely occupied by persons 55 years of age
32        or older and (ii) whose annual income does not exceed 80%
33        of the area gross  median  income,  adjusted  for  family
34        size,   as  such  gross  income  and  median  income  are
 
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 1        determined  from  time  to  time  by  the  United  States
 2        Department  of  Housing  and  Urban   Development.    The
 3        abatement  shall not exceed a period of 15 years, and the
 4        aggregate amount of abated taxes for all taxing districts
 5        shall not exceed $3,000,000.
 6             (6)  Historical society.  For assessment years  1998
 7        through  2000,  the  property  of  an  historical society
 8        qualifying  as  an  exempt  organization  under   Section
 9        501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.
10             (7)  Recreational  facilities.   Any property in the
11        taxing district (i) that is used for a municipal airport,
12        (ii) that is subject  to  a  leasehold  assessment  under
13        Section 9-195 of this Code and (iii) which is sublet from
14        a  park  district  that  is  leasing  the property from a
15        municipality,  but  only  if   the   property   is   used
16        exclusively  for  recreational  facilities or for parking
17        lots  used  exclusively  for   those   facilities.    The
18        abatement shall not exceed a period of 10 years.
19        (b)  Upon a majority vote of its governing authority, any
20    municipality  may,  after  the  determination of the assessed
21    valuation of its property, order the county  clerk  to  abate
22    any  portion  of  its  taxes  on any property that is located
23    within the corporate limits of the municipality in accordance
24    with Section 8-3-18 of the Illinois Municipal Code.
25    (Source: P.A.  90-46,  eff.  7-3-97;  90-415,  eff.  8-15-97;
26    90-568,  eff.  1-1-99;  90-655,  eff.  7-30-98;  91-644, eff.
27    8-20-99; 91-885, eff. 7-6-00.)

28        Section 935.  The Environmental Protection Act is amended
29    by changing Section 39 as follows:

30        (415 ILCS 5/39) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1039)
31        Sec. 39. Issuance of permits; procedures.
32        (a)  When the Board has by regulation required  a  permit
 
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 1    for  the construction, installation, or operation of any type
 2    of facility, equipment, vehicle,  vessel,  or  aircraft,  the
 3    applicant  shall  apply  to the Agency for such permit and it
 4    shall be the duty of the Agency to issue such a  permit  upon
 5    proof by the applicant that the facility, equipment, vehicle,
 6    vessel, or aircraft will not cause a violation of this Act or
 7    of  regulations  hereunder.   The  Agency  shall  adopt  such
 8    procedures  as  are  necessary  to carry out its duties under
 9    this Section. In granting permits the Agency may impose  such
10    conditions  as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of
11    this Act, and as are not inconsistent  with  the  regulations
12    promulgated  by  the  Board  hereunder.   Except as otherwise
13    provided in this Act, a bond or other security shall  not  be
14    required as a condition for the issuance of a permit.  If the
15    Agency denies any permit under this Section, the Agency shall
16    transmit to the applicant within the time limitations of this
17    Section  specific,  detailed statements as to the reasons the
18    permit  application  was  denied.   Such   statements   shall
19    include, but not be limited to the following:
20             (i)  the  Sections of this Act which may be violated
21        if the permit were granted;
22             (ii)  the provision of the regulations,  promulgated
23        under  this Act, which may be violated if the permit were
24        granted;
25             (iii)  the specific type  of  information,  if  any,
26        which  the Agency deems the applicant did not provide the
27        Agency; and
28             (iv)  a statement of specific reasons  why  the  Act
29        and  the  regulations might not be met if the permit were
30        granted.
31        If there is no final action by the Agency within 90  days
32    after the filing of the application for permit, the applicant
33    may  deem  the  permit  issued;  except that this time period
34    shall  be  extended  to  180  days  when  (1)    notice   and
 
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 1    opportunity  for  public  hearing  are  required  by State or
 2    federal law or regulation,  (2)  the  application  which  was
 3    filed  is  for  any  permit  to develop a landfill subject to
 4    issuance pursuant to this subsection, or (3) the  application
 5    that  was  filed is for a MSWLF unit required to issue public
 6    notice under subsection (p) of Section 39.
 7        The Agency shall  publish  notice  of  all  final  permit
 8    determinations  for  development  permits for MSWLF units and
 9    for significant permit modifications for  lateral  expansions
10    for  existing  MSWLF units one time in a newspaper of general
11    circulation in the county in which the unit is or is proposed
12    to be located.
13        After January 1, 1994 and until July 1,  1998,  operating
14    permits  issued  under this Section by the Agency for sources
15    of air pollution permitted to emit less than 25 tons per year
16    of any combination of regulated air pollutants, as defined in
17    Section 39.5 of this Act, shall be  required  to  be  renewed
18    only  upon  written  request  by  the  Agency consistent with
19    applicable provisions of this Act and regulations promulgated
20    hereunder.  Such operating  permits  shall  expire  180  days
21    after the date of such a request.  The Board shall revise its
22    regulations  for  the  existing State air pollution operating
23    permit program consistent with this provision by  January  1,
24    1994.
25        After  June 30, 1998, operating permits issued under this
26    Section by the Agency for sources of air pollution  that  are
27    not  subject to Section 39.5 of this Act and are not required
28    to have a federally enforceable State operating permit  shall
29    be  required  to  be renewed only upon written request by the
30    Agency consistent with applicable provisions of this Act  and
31    its  rules.   Such  operating  permits  shall expire 180 days
32    after the date of such a request.  Before July 1,  1998,  the
33    Board  shall  revise  its  rules  for  the existing State air
34    pollution  operating  permit  program  consistent  with  this
 
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 1    paragraph and shall adopt rules  that  require  a  source  to
 2    demonstrate  that  it  qualifies  for  a  permit  under  this
 3    paragraph.
 4        Notwithstanding  any other provision of this Section, for
 5    permits issued  to  an  entity  that  is  determined  by  the
 6    Department  of  Commerce and Community Affairs to be eligible
 7    for State incentives under the Energy Resources  Policy  Act,
 8    if  there  is  no  final  action by the Agency within 90 days
 9    after filing the application for permit,  the  applicant  may
10    deem  the permit issued.  The Agency shall also waive the fee
11    for obtaining an initial operating permit for an entity  that
12    is  determined  by  the  Department of Commerce and Community
13    Affairs to be eligible for State incentives under the  Energy
14    Resources Policy Act.
15        (b)  The Agency may issue NPDES permits exclusively under
16    this  subsection for the discharge of contaminants from point
17    sources into navigable waters, all as defined in the  Federal
18    Water  Pollution  Control  Act,  as now or hereafter amended,
19    within the jurisdiction of the State, or into any well.
20        All  NPDES  permits  shall  contain   those   terms   and
21    conditions,   including  but  not  limited  to  schedules  of
22    compliance, which may be required to accomplish the  purposes
23    and provisions of this Act.
24        The Agency may issue general NPDES permits for discharges
25    from  categories  of  point  sources which are subject to the
26    same permit limitations and conditions. Such general  permits
27    may  be  issued  without  individual  applications  and shall
28    conform to regulations promulgated under Section 402  of  the
29    Federal  Water  Pollution  Control  Act,  as now or hereafter
30    amended.
31        The Agency may include, among such  conditions,  effluent
32    limitations  and  other  requirements  established under this
33    Act, Board regulations, the Federal Water  Pollution  Control
34    Act,  as  now  or hereafter amended, and regulations pursuant
 
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 1    thereto, and schedules for achieving compliance therewith  at
 2    the earliest reasonable date.
 3        The Agency shall adopt filing requirements and procedures
 4    which are necessary and appropriate for the issuance of NPDES
 5    permits, and which are consistent with the Act or regulations
 6    adopted  by  the  Board, and with the Federal Water Pollution
 7    Control Act, as now or  hereafter  amended,  and  regulations
 8    pursuant thereto.
 9        The  Agency,  subject  to  any  conditions  which  may be
10    prescribed by Board regulations, may issue NPDES  permits  to
11    allow  discharges beyond deadlines established by this Act or
12    by regulations of the Board  without  the  requirement  of  a
13    variance, subject to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act,
14    as   now  or  hereafter  amended,  and  regulations  pursuant
15    thereto.
16        (c)  Except for those facilities  owned  or  operated  by
17    sanitary  districts  organized  under  the Metropolitan Water
18    Reclamation District Act, no permit for  the  development  or
19    construction  of  a  new  pollution  control  facility may be
20    granted by the Agency unless the applicant submits  proof  to
21    the  Agency  that  the  location  of  the  facility  has been
22    approved  by  the  County  Board  of  the  county  if  in  an
23    unincorporated  area,  or   the   governing   body   of   the
24    municipality  when  in  an  incorporated  area,  in which the
25    facility is to be located in accordance with Section 39.2  of
26    this Act.
27        In  the  event  that  siting approval granted pursuant to
28    Section 39.2 has been transferred to a  subsequent  owner  or
29    operator,  that subsequent owner or operator may apply to the
30    Agency for, and  the  Agency  may  grant,  a  development  or
31    construction  permit  for the facility for which local siting
32    approval was granted. Upon application to the  Agency  for  a
33    development  or  construction permit by that subsequent owner
34    or operator, the permit applicant shall cause written  notice
 
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 1    of  the  permit application to be served upon the appropriate
 2    county board or  governing  body  of  the  municipality  that
 3    granted  siting approval for that facility and upon any party
 4    to the siting proceeding pursuant to  which  siting  approval
 5    was  granted.   In  that  event,  the Agency shall conduct an
 6    evaluation  of  the  subsequent  owner  or  operator's  prior
 7    experience in  waste  management  operations  in  the  manner
 8    conducted under subsection (i) of Section 39 of this Act.
 9        Beginning  August  20,  1993,  if  the  pollution control
10    facility consists of a  hazardous  or  solid  waste  disposal
11    facility  for  which  the  proposed  site  is  located  in an
12    unincorporated area of a county with  a  population  of  less
13    than  100,000  and  includes  all or a portion of a parcel of
14    land that was, on April 1, 1993, adjacent to  a  municipality
15    having a population of less than 5,000, then the local siting
16    review required under this subsection (c) in conjunction with
17    any  permit applied for after that date shall be performed by
18    the governing body of that adjacent municipality rather  than
19    the  county board of the county in which the proposed site is
20    located; and for the purposes of that  local  siting  review,
21    any  references  in  this  Act  to  the county board shall be
22    deemed  to  mean  the  governing  body   of   that   adjacent
23    municipality;  provided, however, that the provisions of this
24    paragraph shall not apply to any proposed site which was,  on
25    April  1,  1993,  owned  in  whole  or  in  part  by  another
26    municipality.
27        In  the  case of a pollution control facility for which a
28    development permit was issued before November 12, 1981, if an
29    operating permit has not been issued by the Agency  prior  to
30    August  31,  1989  for  any portion of the facility, then the
31    Agency may not issue or  renew  any  development  permit  nor
32    issue  an  original  operating permit for any portion of such
33    facility unless the applicant  has  submitted  proof  to  the
34    Agency that the location of the facility has been approved by
 
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 1    the  appropriate  county  board  or  municipal governing body
 2    pursuant to Section 39.2 of this Act.
 3        After  January  1,  1994,  if  a  solid  waste   disposal
 4    facility,  any portion for which an operating permit has been
 5    issued by the Agency, has not accepted waste disposal  for  5
 6    or more consecutive calendars years, before that facility may
 7    accept  any  new  or additional waste for disposal, the owner
 8    and operator must obtain a new operating  permit  under  this
 9    Act  for  that  facility  unless  the owner and operator have
10    applied to the Agency for a permit authorizing the  temporary
11    suspension  of  waste acceptance.  The Agency may not issue a
12    new operation permit under this Act for the  facility  unless
13    the  applicant  has  submitted  proof  to the Agency that the
14    location of the facility has been approved or re-approved  by
15    the  appropriate  county  board  or  municipal governing body
16    under Section 39.2 of this  Act  after  the  facility  ceased
17    accepting waste.
18        Except for those facilities owned or operated by sanitary
19    districts  organized under the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
20    District Act, and except for new pollution control facilities
21    governed by Section 39.2, and except for fossil  fuel  mining
22    facilities, the granting of a permit under this Act shall not
23    relieve the applicant from meeting and securing all necessary
24    zoning  approvals  from  the unit of government having zoning
25    jurisdiction over the proposed facility.
26        Before beginning construction on any new sewage treatment
27    plant or sludge drying site to be  owned  or  operated  by  a
28    sanitary  district  organized  under  the  Metropolitan Water
29    Reclamation District Act  for which a new permit (rather than
30    the renewal or amendment of an existing permit) is  required,
31    such sanitary district shall hold a public hearing within the
32    municipality  within  which  the  proposed  facility is to be
33    located, or within the  nearest  community  if  the  proposed
34    facility  is  to be located within an unincorporated area, at
 
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 1    which information concerning the proposed facility  shall  be
 2    made available to the public, and members of the public shall
 3    be  given  the  opportunity to express their views concerning
 4    the proposed facility.
 5        The Agency may issue  a  permit  for  a  municipal  waste
 6    transfer  station  without  requiring  approval  pursuant  to
 7    Section  39.2  provided  that  the following demonstration is
 8    made:
 9             (1)  the municipal waste  transfer  station  was  in
10        existence  on  or  before  January  1,  1979  and  was in
11        continuous operation from January 1, 1979 to  January  1,
12        1993;
13             (2)  the  operator submitted a permit application to
14        the Agency to develop and  operate  the  municipal  waste
15        transfer station during April of 1994;
16             (3)  the  operator  can  demonstrate that the county
17        board of the county,  if  the  municipal  waste  transfer
18        station  is  in  an unincorporated area, or the governing
19        body of  the  municipality,  if  the  station  is  in  an
20        incorporated  area,  does not object to resumption of the
21        operation of the station; and
22             (4)  the site has local zoning approval.
23        (d)  The Agency may issue RCRA permits exclusively  under
24    this subsection to persons owning or operating a facility for
25    the  treatment,  storage,  or  disposal of hazardous waste as
26    defined under this Act.
27        All  RCRA  permits  shall   contain   those   terms   and
28    conditions,   including  but  not  limited  to  schedules  of
29    compliance, which may be required to accomplish the  purposes
30    and  provisions  of  this  Act.  The Agency may include among
31    such conditions standards and other requirements  established
32    under  this Act, Board regulations, the Resource Conservation
33    and Recovery Act of  1976  (P.L.  94-580),  as  amended,  and
34    regulations  pursuant  thereto, and may include schedules for
 
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 1    achieving compliance therewith  as  soon  as  possible.   The
 2    Agency  shall  require  that  a  performance  bond  or  other
 3    security  be  provided  as  a condition for the issuance of a
 4    RCRA permit.
 5        In the case of a permit to operate a hazardous  waste  or
 6    PCB  incinerator  as defined in subsection (k) of Section 44,
 7    the Agency shall require, as a condition of the permit,  that
 8    the  operator  of  the  facility perform such analyses of the
 9    waste to be incinerated as may be necessary  and  appropriate
10    to ensure the safe operation of the incinerator.
11        The Agency shall adopt filing requirements and procedures
12    which  are necessary and appropriate for the issuance of RCRA
13    permits, and which are consistent with the Act or regulations
14    adopted by the Board, and with the Resource Conservation  and
15    Recovery   Act   of  1976  (P.L.  94-580),  as  amended,  and
16    regulations pursuant thereto.
17        The applicant shall make  available  to  the  public  for
18    inspection  all  documents  submitted by the applicant to the
19    Agency in furtherance of an application, with  the  exception
20    of  trade  secrets,  at  the  office  of  the county board or
21    governing body of the municipality.  Such  documents  may  be
22    copied upon payment of the actual cost of reproduction during
23    regular business hours of the local office.  The Agency shall
24    issue a written statement concurrent with its grant or denial
25    of the permit explaining the basis for its decision.
26        (e)  The  Agency  may issue UIC permits exclusively under
27    this subsection to persons owning or operating a facility for
28    the underground injection of contaminants  as  defined  under
29    this Act.
30        All UIC permits shall contain those terms and conditions,
31    including  but  not limited to schedules of compliance, which
32    may be required to accomplish the purposes and provisions  of
33    this  Act.  The  Agency  may  include  among  such conditions
34    standards and other requirements established under this  Act,
 
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 1    Board regulations, the Safe Drinking Water Act (P.L. 93-523),
 2    as amended, and regulations pursuant thereto, and may include
 3    schedules  for  achieving  compliance  therewith.  The Agency
 4    shall require that a performance bond or  other  security  be
 5    provided as a condition for the issuance of a UIC permit.
 6        The Agency shall adopt filing requirements and procedures
 7    which  are  necessary and appropriate for the issuance of UIC
 8    permits, and which are consistent with the Act or regulations
 9    adopted by the Board, and with the Safe  Drinking  Water  Act
10    (P.L. 93-523), as amended, and regulations pursuant thereto.
11        The  applicant  shall  make  available  to the public for
12    inspection, all documents submitted by the applicant  to  the
13    Agency  in  furtherance of an application, with the exception
14    of trade secrets, at  the  office  of  the  county  board  or
15    governing  body  of  the municipality.  Such documents may be
16    copied upon payment of the actual cost of reproduction during
17    regular business hours of the local office.  The Agency shall
18    issue a written statement concurrent with its grant or denial
19    of the permit explaining the basis for its decision.
20        (f)  In making any determination pursuant to Section  9.1
21    of this Act:
22             (1)  The  Agency  shall  have  authority to make the
23        determination of any question required to  be  determined
24        by  the  Clean Air Act, as now or hereafter amended, this
25        Act, or the  regulations  of  the  Board,  including  the
26        determination  of  the  Lowest  Achievable Emission Rate,
27        Maximum Achievable Control Technology, or Best  Available
28        Control   Technology,   consistent   with   the   Board's
29        regulations, if any.
30             (2)  The  Agency  shall,  after  conferring with the
31        applicant, give written notice to the  applicant  of  its
32        proposed  decision on the application including the terms
33        and conditions of the permit to be issued and the  facts,
34        conduct or other basis upon which the Agency will rely to
 
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 1        support its proposed action.
 2             (3)  Following  such  notice,  the Agency shall give
 3        the applicant an opportunity for a hearing in  accordance
 4        with  the  provisions  of Sections 10-25 through 10-60 of
 5        the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
 6        (g)  The Agency shall  include  as  conditions  upon  all
 7    permits  issued  for  hazardous  waste  disposal  sites  such
 8    restrictions  upon  the  future  use  of  such  sites  as are
 9    reasonably  necessary  to  protect  public  health  and   the
10    environment,  including  permanent  prohibition of the use of
11    such sites for purposes which may create an unreasonable risk
12    of injury to human  health  or  to  the  environment.   After
13    administrative  and  judicial challenges to such restrictions
14    have been exhausted, the Agency shall file such  restrictions
15    of  record  in  the  Office  of the Recorder of the county in
16    which the hazardous waste disposal site is located.
17        (h)  A hazardous waste stream may not be deposited  in  a
18    permitted  hazardous waste site unless specific authorization
19    is obtained from the Agency by  the  generator  and  disposal
20    site  owner  and  operator  for  the deposit of that specific
21    hazardous  waste  stream.   The  Agency  may  grant  specific
22    authorization for disposal of hazardous  waste  streams  only
23    after   the   generator  has  reasonably  demonstrated  that,
24    considering   technological    feasibility    and    economic
25    reasonableness,  the  hazardous  waste  cannot  be reasonably
26    recycled for reuse, nor incinerated or chemically, physically
27    or biologically treated so as  to  neutralize  the  hazardous
28    waste  and render it nonhazardous.  In granting authorization
29    under this Section, the Agency may impose such conditions  as
30    may  be  necessary  to accomplish the purposes of the Act and
31    are consistent with this Act and regulations  promulgated  by
32    the   Board  hereunder.   If  the  Agency  refuses  to  grant
33    authorization under this Section, the applicant may appeal as
34    if the Agency refused to grant  a  permit,  pursuant  to  the
 
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 1    provisions  of subsection (a) of Section 40 of this Act.  For
 2    purposes of this subsection (h), the term "generator" has the
 3    meaning given in Section 3.12 of this Act,  unless:  (1)  the
 4    hazardous   waste   is  treated,  incinerated,  or  partially
 5    recycled for reuse prior to disposal, in which case the  last
 6    person  who  treats,  incinerates,  or partially recycles the
 7    hazardous waste prior to disposal is the  generator;  or  (2)
 8    the  hazardous waste is from a response action, in which case
 9    the person performing the response action is  the  generator.
10    This  subsection  (h)  does  not apply to any hazardous waste
11    that is restricted from land disposal under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
12    728.
13        (i)  Before issuing any RCRA permit or any permit  for  a
14    waste  storage  site, sanitary landfill, waste disposal site,
15    waste  transfer  station,  waste  treatment  facility,  waste
16    incinerator,  or  any  waste-transportation  operation,   the
17    Agency shall conduct an evaluation of the prospective owner's
18    or   operator's   prior   experience   in   waste  management
19    operations.  The  Agency  may  deny  such  a  permit  if  the
20    prospective  owner  or operator or any employee or officer of
21    the prospective owner or operator has a history of:
22             (1)  repeated violations of federal, State, or local
23        laws,  regulations,  standards,  or  ordinances  in   the
24        operation of waste management facilities or sites; or
25             (2)  conviction  in  this  or  another  State of any
26        crime which is a felony under the laws of this State,  or
27        conviction of a felony in a federal court; or
28             (3)  proof  of gross carelessness or incompetence in
29        handling, storing, processing, transporting or  disposing
30        of waste.
31        (j)  The issuance under this Act of a permit to engage in
32    the  surface  mining of any resources other than fossil fuels
33    shall not relieve the permittee from its duty to comply  with
34    any   applicable   local  law  regulating  the  commencement,
 
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 1    location or operation of surface mining facilities.
 2        (k)  A development permit issued under subsection (a)  of
 3    Section 39 for any facility or site which is required to have
 4    a  permit  under subsection (d) of Section 21 shall expire at
 5    the end of 2 calendar years from the date upon which  it  was
 6    issued,  unless  within  that  period the applicant has taken
 7    action to develop the facility or the site. In the event that
 8    review of the conditions of the development permit is  sought
 9    pursuant  to Section 40 or 41, or permittee is prevented from
10    commencing development of the facility or site by  any  other
11    litigation  beyond  the  permittee's  control,  such two-year
12    period shall be deemed to begin on the date upon  which  such
13    review  process or litigation is concluded.
14        (l)  No  permit  shall be issued by the Agency under this
15    Act for construction or operation of  any  facility  or  site
16    located within the boundaries of any setback zone established
17    pursuant to this Act, where such construction or operation is
18    prohibited.
19        (m)  The  Agency  may  issue permits to persons owning or
20    operating a  facility  for  composting  landscape  waste.  In
21    granting  such permits, the Agency may impose such conditions
22    as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of  this  Act,
23    and  as  are  not  inconsistent  with  applicable regulations
24    promulgated by the Board.  Except as  otherwise  provided  in
25    this Act, a bond or other security shall not be required as a
26    condition for the issuance of a permit.  If the Agency denies
27    any  permit  pursuant  to  this  subsection, the Agency shall
28    transmit to the applicant within the time limitations of this
29    subsection specific, detailed statements as  to  the  reasons
30    the  permit  application  was  denied.  Such statements shall
31    include but not be limited to the following:
32             (1)  the Sections of this Act that may  be  violated
33        if the permit were granted;
34             (2)  the  specific  regulations promulgated pursuant
 
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 1        to this Act that may  be  violated  if  the  permit  were
 2        granted;
 3             (3)  the  specific  information,  if any, the Agency
 4        deems the applicant did not provide in its application to
 5        the Agency; and
 6             (4)  a statement of specific reasons why the Act and
 7        the regulations might be  violated  if  the  permit  were
 8        granted.
 9        If  no final action is taken by the Agency within 90 days
10    after the filing of the application for permit, the applicant
11    may deem the permit issued.  Any applicant for a  permit  may
12    waive  the  90  day  limitation by filing a written statement
13    with the Agency.
14        The Agency shall issue permits for such  facilities  upon
15    receipt  of  an application that includes a legal description
16    of the site, a topographic map of the site drawn to the scale
17    of 200 feet to the inch  or  larger,  a  description  of  the
18    operation,  including  the  area  served,  an estimate of the
19    volume of materials to be processed, and documentation that:
20             (1)  the facility includes a setback of at least 200
21        feet from the nearest potable water supply well;
22             (2)  the facility is located outside the boundary of
23        the 10-year floodplain or the site will be floodproofed;
24             (3)  the facility  is  located  so  as  to  minimize
25        incompatibility  with  the  character  of the surrounding
26        area, including at least a  200  foot  setback  from  any
27        residence,  and  in  the  case  of  a  facility  that  is
28        developed  or  the  permitted composting area of which is
29        expanded after November 17, 1991, the composting area  is
30        located  at  least  1/8  mile  from the nearest residence
31        (other than a residence located on the same  property  as
32        the facility);
33             (4)  the  design  of  the  facility will prevent any
34        compost material from being placed within 5 feet  of  the
 
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 1        water  table,  will  adequately  control  runoff from the
 2        site, and will collect and manage any  leachate  that  is
 3        generated on the site;
 4             (5)  the  operation  of  the  facility  will include
 5        appropriate dust and odor control  measures,  limitations
 6        on  operating  hours,  appropriate noise control measures
 7        for shredding, chipping and similar equipment, management
 8        procedures for composting, containment  and  disposal  of
 9        non-compostable   wastes,   procedures  to  be  used  for
10        terminating operations at  the  site,  and  recordkeeping
11        sufficient  to document the amount of materials received,
12        composted and otherwise disposed of; and
13             (6)  the operation will be conducted  in  accordance
14        with any applicable rules adopted by the Board.
15        The  Agency  shall  issue renewable permits of not longer
16    than 10 years in duration for  the  composting  of  landscape
17    wastes,  as defined in Section 3.70 of this Act, based on the
18    above requirements.
19        The  operator  of  any  facility  permitted  under   this
20    subsection  (m) must submit a written annual statement to the
21    Agency on or before April 1 of each  year  that  includes  an
22    estimate  of  the  amount  of material, in tons, received for
23    composting.
24        (n)  The Agency shall  issue  permits  jointly  with  the
25    Department  of  Transportation for the dredging or deposit of
26    material in Lake Michigan in accordance with  Section  18  of
27    the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act.
28        (o)  From  September  4, 1990 until December 31, 1993, no
29    permit shall be issued by the Agency for the  development  or
30    construction  of any new facility intended to be used for the
31    incineration  of any hazardous waste. This  subsection  shall
32    not  apply  to  facilities intended for use for combustion of
33    potentially infectious medical waste, for use as  part  of  a
34    State  or  federally  designated  clean-up action, or for use
 
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 1    solely for the conduct of research and  the  development  and
 2    demonstration   of   technologies  for  the  incineration  of
 3    hazardous waste.
 4        (p) (1)  Any  person  submitting  an  application  for  a
 5    permit for a new MSWLF unit or for a lateral expansion  under
 6    subsection  (t)  of  Section  21  of this Act for an existing
 7    MSWLF unit that has not received and is not subject to  local
 8    siting  approval under Section 39.2 of this Act shall publish
 9    notice  of  the  application  in  a  newspaper   of   general
10    circulation  in  the  county in which the MSWLF unit is or is
11    proposed to be located.  The  notice  must  be  published  at
12    least  15 days before submission of the permit application to
13    the Agency.  The notice shall state the name and  address  of
14    the  applicant,  the  location  of the MSWLF unit or proposed
15    MSWLF unit, the nature and size of the MSWLF unit or proposed
16    MSWLF unit, the nature of the activity proposed, the probable
17    life  of  the  proposed  activity,  the   date   the   permit
18    application  will  be submitted, and a statement that persons
19    may file written comments  with  the  Agency  concerning  the
20    permit  application  within  30  days after the filing of the
21    permit application unless the time period to submit  comments
22    is extended by the Agency.
23        When a permit applicant submits information to the Agency
24    to  supplement  a  permit  application  being reviewed by the
25    Agency, the applicant shall not be required  to  reissue  the
26    notice under this subsection.
27        (2)  The  Agency shall accept written comments concerning
28    the permit application that are postmarked no later  than  30
29    days  after  the filing of the permit application, unless the
30    time period to accept comments is extended by the Agency.
31        (3)  Each applicant for a permit described in part (1) of
32    this subsection shall file a copy of the  permit  application
33    with  the  county board or governing body of the municipality
34    in which the MSWLF unit is or is proposed to  be  located  at
 
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 1    the  same  time  the  application is submitted to the Agency.
 2    The  permit  application  filed  with  the  county  board  or
 3    governing  body  of  the  municipality  shall   include   all
 4    documents  submitted  to  or  to  be submitted to the Agency,
 5    except trade secrets as determined under Section 7.1 of  this
 6    Act.  The permit application and other documents on file with
 7    the  county board or governing body of the municipality shall
 8    be  made  available  for  public  inspection  during  regular
 9    business hours at the office  of  the  county  board  or  the
10    governing  body  of  the  municipality and may be copied upon
11    payment of the actual cost of reproduction.
12    (Source: P.A. 89-487, eff.  6-21-96;  89-556,  eff.  7-26-96;
13    90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-367,  eff.  8-10-97;  90-537,  eff.
14    11-26-97; 90-655, eff 7-30-98.)

15        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
16    becoming law.".

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