Bill Amendment: IL HB2491 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: EPA-UNCONTAMINATED PLASTICS
Status: 2019-07-26 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0141 [HB2491 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2491-House_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: EPA-UNCONTAMINATED PLASTICS
Status: 2019-07-26 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0141 [HB2491 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2491-House_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2491
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2491 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by | ||||||
5 | adding Section 22.59 as follows:
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6 | (415 ILCS 5/22.59 new) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 22.59. Plastics gasification facilities. | ||||||
8 | (a) As used in this Section: | ||||||
9 | "Plastics" means polystyrene or any other synthetic | ||||||
10 | organic polymer that can be molded into shape under heat and | ||||||
11 | pressure and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form. | ||||||
12 | "Plastics gasification facility" means a manufacturing | ||||||
13 | facility that: | ||||||
14 | (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have | ||||||
15 | been processed into a feedstock meeting the facility's | ||||||
16 | specifications for a gasification feedstock; and |
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1 | (2) uses heat in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere to | ||||||
2 | process the feedstock into fuels, chemicals, or chemical | ||||||
3 | feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in | ||||||
4 | the form of raw materials or products. | ||||||
5 | "Plastics pyrolysis facility" means a manufacturing | ||||||
6 | facility that: | ||||||
7 | (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have | ||||||
8 | been processed into a feedstock meeting the facility's | ||||||
9 | specifications for a pyrolysis feedstock; and | ||||||
10 | (2) uses heat in the absence of oxygen to process the | ||||||
11 | uncontaminated plastics into fuels, chemicals, or chemical | ||||||
12 | feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in | ||||||
13 | the form of raw materials or products. | ||||||
14 | (b) To the extent allowed by federal law, uncontaminated | ||||||
15 | plastics that have been processed into a feedstock meeting | ||||||
16 | feedstock specifications for a plastics gasification facility | ||||||
17 | or plastics pyrolysis facility, and that are further processed | ||||||
18 | by such a facility and returned to the economic mainstream in | ||||||
19 | the form of raw materials or products, are considered recycled | ||||||
20 | and are not subject to regulation as waste. | ||||||
21 | (c) The Agency may propose to the Board for adoption, and | ||||||
22 | the Board may adopt, rules establishing standards for materials | ||||||
23 | accepted as feedstocks by plastics gasification facilities and | ||||||
24 | plastics pyrolysis facilities, rules establishing standards | ||||||
25 | for the management of feedstocks at plastics gasification | ||||||
26 | facilities and plastics pyrolysis facilities, and any other |
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1 | rules, as may be necessary to implement and administer this | ||||||
2 | Section.
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3 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
4 | becoming law.".
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