Bill Text: IL SB1556 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, the Environmental Protection Agency shall propose, within 12 months after the amendatory Act's effective date, and the Pollution Control Board shall adopt, within 12 months after receipt of the Agency's proposal, rules establishing a clean transportation standard to reduce carbon intensity from the on-road transportation sector by 20% by 2038, with further reductions to be implemented at the discretion of the Agency based upon advances in technology. Contains requirements for the Board rules and for the clean transportation standard. Exempts aviation fuels from the clean transportation standard. Provides that producers of sustainable aviation fuel shall be eligible to generate monetary credits on an opt-in basis that may be applied to future obligations or traded to providers not meeting the clean transportation standard. Requires the Agency to submit a report to the General Assembly detailing the implementation of the clean transportation standard, the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that have been achieved through the clean transportation standard, and targets for future reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 17, 2024 [SB1556 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1556-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1556 Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 5/52.15 new
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, to the extent allowed by federal law, the Environmental Protection Agency shall propose, within 12 months after the amendatory Act's effective date, and the Pollution Control Board shall adopt, within 12 months after receipt of the Agency's proposal, rules establishing a clean transportation standard to reduce carbon intensity from the on-road transportation sector by 20% by 2038, with further reductions to be implemented at the discretion of the Agency based upon advances in technology. Contains requirements for the Board rules and for the clean transportation standard. Exempts aviation fuels from the clean transportation standard. Provides that producers of sustainable aviation fuel shall be eligible to generate monetary credits on an opt-in basis that may be applied to future obligations or traded to providers not meeting the clean transportation standard. Requires the Agency to submit a report to the General Assembly detailing the implementation of the clean transportation standard, the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that have been achieved through the clean transportation standard, and targets for future reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
adding Section 52.15 as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/52.15 new)
Sec. 52.15. Clean transportation standard.
(a) The General Assembly finds that:
(1) The transportation sector in Illinois is a leading
source of criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas
emissions, which collectively endanger public health and
welfare by causing and contributing to increased air
pollution and climate change.
(2) Shifting from petroleum-based transportation fuels
to alternative fuels has the potential to significantly
reduce transportation emissions of air pollutants and
greenhouse gases and is recommended by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as an important
pathway for holding global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
A clean transportation standard would promote innovation
in and production and use of nonpetroleum fuels that
reduce vehicle-related and fuel-related air pollution that
endangers public health and welfare and disproportionately

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impacts disadvantaged communities.
(3) Credits generated through the use of clean fuel
under this Section will promote innovation and investment
in clean fuels.
(b) In this Section:
"Carbon intensity" means the quantity of greenhouse gas
emissions per unit of fuel energy, expressed in grams per
megajoule.
"Clean transportation standard" means the standard adopted
by the Board under subsection (c) for the reduction, on
average, of life cycle carbon intensity of fuels used for
on-road transportation.
"Credit" means a unit of measure generated when a fuel
with a carbon intensity that is less than the clean
transportation standard is produced, imported, or dispensed
for use in Illinois, such that one credit is equal to one
metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent.
"Life cycle carbon intensity" means the quantity of
greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy, expressed in
grams per megajoule, included in a fuel and emitted during
extraction, production, manufacture, importation, and
distribution of the fuel, as calculated annually by the Agency
under paragraph (2) of subsection (d) using the methods
described under subsection (f).
"Provider" includes, but is not limited to, any refiner,
blender, producer, or importer of a transportation fuel and

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any enabler of electricity being used as a fuel source for
transportation.
(c) To the extent allowed by federal law, the Agency shall
propose, within 12 months after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, and the Board
shall adopt, within 12 months after receipt of the Agency's
proposal, rules establishing a clean transportation standard
in order to reduce the life cycle carbon intensity of fuels for
the on-road transportation sector by 20% by 2038, with further
reductions to be implemented at the discretion of the Board,
upon its own initiative or upon the petition of any other
person, based upon advances in clean fuel technology. The
rules adopted by the Board under this subsection shall include
fees for the registration of providers to offset the costs
incurred by the Board and the Agency that are associated with
implementing the clean transportation standard.
(d) The clean transportation standard adopted by the Board
shall:
(1) apply to all providers in the State;
(2) be measured based on a life cycle carbon intensity
that shall be calculated annually by the Agency in
accordance with subsection (f); and
(3) take into consideration the low-carbon clean
transportation standards adopted in other states,
including the carbon intensity values established for
transportation fuels.

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(e) The clean transportation standard adopted by the Board
may be met through market-based methods by which providers
reaching or exceeding the required reduction of life cycle
carbon intensity under the clean transportation standard shall
receive credits as determined under the rules adopted by the
Board. The system of credits created under this subsection
shall provide credits based on a life cycle emissions
performance-based approach that is technology neutral,
feedstock neutral, and has the purpose of achieving fuel
decarbonization.
(f) The life cycle carbon intensity calculation conducted
by the Agency under paragraph (2) of subsection (d) shall use
the Argonne National Laboratory's GREET model and shall
include all stages of fuel and feedstock production and
distribution, from feedstock generation or extraction through
the distribution, delivery, and use of the finished fuel by
the ultimate consumer. In calculating the life cycle carbon
intensity, the mass values for all greenhouse gases that are
not carbon dioxide must be adjusted to account for each of
their relative global warming potentials. This adjustment
shall be performed using the global warming potential deemed
most accurate by the Agency for each greenhouse gas for the
period during which reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are
to be attained under the clean transportation standard.
(g) Aviation fuels are exempt from the clean
transportation standard established under subsection (c), but

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producers of sustainable aviation fuel shall be eligible under
the rules adopted under this Section to receive credits on an
opt-in basis that may be applied to future obligations or
traded to providers not meeting the clean transportation
standard.
(h) Within 24 months after the Board adopts the rules
proposed by the Agency under subsection (c), the Agency shall
submit a report to the General Assembly detailing the
implementation of the clean transportation standard, the
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that have been achieved
through the clean transportation standard, and targets for
future reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
(i) Nothing in this Section precludes the Agency or Board
from adopting or maintaining other programs to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.