Bill Text: IL HB4986 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Changes the categories of waste that qualify for exemptions from State and local tipping fees and Subtitle D management fees. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Requires each county to report its recycling and composting rate and its disposal rate to the Environmental Protection Agency. Establishes a recycling and composting goal that each county waste management plan must satisfy. Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to prepare a resource management plan that contains certain information about recycling and composting in the State. Authorizes the Department to provide grants to counties, municipalities with a population of 1,000,000 or more, and municipal joint action agencies in order to help achieve the recycling and composting goals. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-26 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0853 [HB4986 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB4986-Amended.html

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Rep. Karen May

Filed: 3/5/2012

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4986
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4986 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is
amended by adding Section 10 as follows:
(415 ILCS 20/10 new)
Sec. 10. Solid Waste Reduction and Management Task Force.
(a) A Solid Waste Reduction and Management Task Force is
hereby created with the goal of providing suggestions for more
efficiently and effectively collecting, processing, and
managing recyclable, reusable, and compostable materials that
are currently disposed of as solid waste, in a manner that
promotes economic development, protects environmental and
public health and safety, and allows the most practical and
beneficial use of those materials. The Task Force's review
shall include, but not be limited to, the following topics:

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county recycling and waste management planning; recordkeeping
used to track recycling, reuse, and composting rates; current
and future landfill space needs; source reduction, recycling,
composting, and reuse programs; solid waste management and
disposal; funding for State and local oversight and regulation
of solid waste management programs and solid waste management
facilities; and funding for State and local support of projects
that advance source reduction, recycling, reuse, composting,
and proper management of household hazardous waste.
(b) The Task Force shall consist of the following members
appointed as follows:
(1) four legislators consisting of one designated by
each of the following: the President of the Senate, the
Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House,
and the Minority Leader of the House;
(2) the Director of the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency, or his or her representative;
(3) the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity,
or his or her representative;
(4) two persons designated by the Director of Commerce
and Economic Opportunity to represent local governments;
(5) two persons designated by the Director of the
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to represent the
solid waste management industry;
(6) two persons designated by the Director of Commerce
and Economic Opportunity to represent the recycling

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industry; and
(7) two persons designated by the Director of the
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to represent
environmental interest groups.
(c) The Directors of the Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity,
or their representatives, shall co-chair and facilitate the
Task Force.
(d) The members of the Task Force shall be designated no
later than 60 days after the effective date of this Section.
The members of the Task Force shall not receive compensation
for serving as members of the Task Force, but may be reimbursed
for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their
official duties from funds appropriated for that purpose.
(e) A majority of the Task Force shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of its business. The Task Force may convene
and meet before all designees are appointed. The Task Force
shall meet at least quarterly. The Task Force co-chairs may
establish subcommittees for the purpose of making special
studies. The subcommittees may include non-Task-Force members
as resource persons.
(f) The Task Force shall make recommendations resulting
from its study and shall submit a report of its findings and
recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly no
later than 2 years after the effective date of this Section.
The report may be in the form of proposed legislation.

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(g) This Section is repealed one year after the date that
the Task Force is required to report its findings under
subsection (f).
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".