Bill Text: IL HB5660 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act and the Illinois Coal Technology Development Assistance Act. Removes provisions requiring the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to carry out programs to increase public awareness and education regarding Illinois coal. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5660 Detail]

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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act
is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1105/8) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7408)
Sec. 8. Illinois Coal Development Board.
(a) There may be established as an advisory board to the
Department, the Illinois Coal Development Board, hereinafter
in this Section called the Board. The Board shall be composed
of the following voting members: the Director of the
Department, who shall be Chairman thereof; the Deputy Director
of the Bureau of Business Development within the Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity; the President of the
University of Illinois or his or her designee; the Director of
Natural Resources or that Director's designee; the Director of
the Office of Mines and Minerals within the Department of
Natural Resources; 4 members of the General Assembly (one each
appointed by the President of the Senate, the Senate Minority
Leader, the Speaker of the House, and the House Minority
Leader); and 8 persons appointed by the Governor, with the
advice and consent of the Senate, including representatives of
Illinois industries that are involved in the extraction,

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utilization or transportation of Illinois coal, persons
representing financial or banking interests in the State, and
persons experienced in international business and economic
development. These members shall be chosen from persons of
recognized ability and experience in their designated field.
The members appointed by the Governor shall serve for terms of
4 years, unless otherwise provided in this subsection. The
initial terms of the original appointees shall expire on July
1, 1985, except that the Governor shall designate 3 of the
original appointees to serve initial terms that shall expire on
July 1, 1983. The initial term of the member appointed by the
Governor to fill the office created after July 1, 1985 shall
expire on July 1, 1989. The initial terms of the members
appointed by the Governor to fill the offices created by this
amendatory Act of 1993 shall expire on July 1, 1995, and July
1, 1997, as determined by the Governor. A member appointed by a
Legislative Leader shall serve for the duration of the General
Assembly for which he or she is appointed, so long as the
member remains a member of that General Assembly.
The Board may meet at least annually or at the call of the
Chairman. At any time the majority of the Board may petition
the Chairman for a meeting of the Board. Nine members of the
Board shall constitute a quorum. Members of the Board shall be
reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred while
performing their duties as members of the Board from funds
appropriated to the Department for such purpose.

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(b) The Board shall provide advice and make recommendations
on the following Department powers and duties:
(1) To develop an annual agenda which may include but
is not limited to research and methodologies conducted for
the purpose of increasing the utilization of Illinois' coal
and other fossil fuel resources, with emphasis on high
sulfur coal, in the following areas: coal extraction,
preparation and characterization; coal technologies
(combustion, gasification, liquefaction, and related
processes); marketing; public awareness and education, as
those terms are used in the Illinois Coal Technology
Development Assistance Act; transportation; procurement of
sites and issuance of permits; and environmental impacts.
(2) To support and coordinate Illinois coal research,
and to approve projects consistent with the annual agenda
and budget for coal research and the purposes of this Act
and to approve the annual budget and operating plan for
administration of the Board.
(3) To promote the coordination of available research
information on the production, preparation, distribution
and uses of Illinois coal. The Board shall advise the
existing research institutions within the State on areas
where research may be necessary.
(4) To cooperate to the fullest extent possible with
State and federal agencies and departments, independent
organizations, and other interested groups, public and

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private, for the purposes of promoting Illinois coal
resources.
(5) To submit an annual report to the Governor and the
General Assembly outlining the progress and
accomplishments made in the year, providing an accounting
of funds received and disbursed, reviewing the status of
research contracts, and furnishing other relevant
information.
(6) To focus on existing coal research efforts in
carrying out its mission; to make use of existing research
facilities in Illinois or other institutions carrying out
research on Illinois coal; as far as practicable, to make
maximum use of the research facilities available at the
Illinois State Geological Survey of the University of
Illinois, the Coal Extraction and Utilization Research
Center, the Illinois Coal Development Park and
universities and colleges located within the State of
Illinois; and to create a consortium or center which
conducts, coordinates and supports coal research
activities in the State of Illinois. Programmatic
activities of such a consortium or center shall be subject
to approval by the Department and shall be consistent with
the purposes of this Act. The Department may authorize
expenditure of funds in support of the administrative and
programmatic operations of such a center or consortium
consistent with its statutory authority. Administrative

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actions undertaken by or for such a center or consortium
shall be subject to the approval of the Department.
(7) To make a reasonable attempt, before initiating any
research under this Act, to avoid duplication of effort and
expense by coordinating the research efforts among various
agencies, departments, universities or organizations, as
the case may be.
(8) To adopt, amend and repeal rules, regulations and
bylaws governing the Board's organization and conduct of
business.
(9) To authorize the expenditure of monies from the
Coal Technology Development Assistance Fund, the Public
Utility Fund and other funds in the State Treasury
appropriated to the Department, consistent with the
purposes of this Act.
(10) To seek, accept, and expend gifts or grants in any
form, from any public agency or from any other source. Such
gifts and grants may be held in trust by the Department and
expended at the direction of the Department and in the
exercise of the Department's powers and performance of the
Department's duties.
(11) To publish, from time to time, the results of
Illinois coal research projects funded through the
Department.
(12) To authorize loans from appropriations from the
Build Illinois Bond Purposes Fund, the Build Illinois Bond

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Fund and the Illinois Industrial Coal Utilization Fund.
(13) To authorize expenditures of monies for coal
development projects under the authority of Section 13 of
the General Obligation Bond Act.
(c) The Board shall also provide advice and make
recommendations on the following Department powers and duties:
(1) To create and maintain thorough, current and
accurate records on all markets for and actual uses of coal
mined in Illinois, and to make such records available to
the public upon request.
(2) To identify all current and anticipated future
technical, economic, institutional, market, environmental,
regulatory and other impediments to the utilization of
Illinois coal.
(3) To monitor and evaluate all proposals and plans of
public utilities related to compliance with the
requirements of Title IV of the federal Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990, or with any other law which might
affect the use of Illinois coal, for the purposes of (i)
determining the effects of such proposals or plans on the
use of Illinois coal, and (ii) identifying alternative
plans or actions which would maintain or increase the use
of Illinois coal.
(4) To develop strategies and to propose policies to
promote environmentally responsible uses of Illinois coal
for meeting electric power supply requirements and for

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other purposes.
(5) (Blank).
(Source: P.A. 95-728, eff. 7-1-08 - See Sec. 999; 96-739, eff.
1-1-10.)
Section 10. The Illinois Coal Technology Development
Assistance Act is amended by changing Sections 2 and 5 as
follows:
(30 ILCS 730/2) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 8202)
Sec. 2. As used in this Act:
(a) "coal" or "coal resources" means Illinois coal or coal
products extracted from the ground or reclaimed from the waste
material produced by coal extraction operations;
(b) "coal demonstration and commercialization" means
projects for the construction and operation of facilities to
prove the scientific and engineering validity or the commercial
application of a coal extraction, preparation, combustion,
gasification, liquefaction or other synthetic process,
environmental control, or transportation method;
(c) "coal research" means scientific investigations
conducted for the purpose of increasing the utilization of coal
resources and includes investigations in the areas of
extraction, preparation, characterization, combustion,
gasification, liquefaction and other synthetic processes,
environmental control, marketing, transportation, procurement

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of sites, and environmental impacts;
(d) "Fund" means the Coal Technology Development
Assistance Fund;
(e) "Board" means the Illinois Coal Development Board or
its successor;
(f) "Department" means the Department of Commerce and
Economic Opportunity;
(g) (blank). "public awareness and education" means
programs of education, curriculum development, public service
announcements, informational advertising and informing the
news media on issues related to the use of Illinois coal, the
coal industry and related developments. Public awareness and
education shall be directed toward school age residents of the
State, the citizens of the State and other interested parties.
(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
(30 ILCS 730/5) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 8205)
Sec. 5. The Department shall have the following powers and
duties:
(a) To solicit, accept and approve or disapprove
applications for financial support of coal research projects
and coal demonstration and commercialization projects.
(b) To enter into contracts with business, industrial,
university, governmental or other qualified individuals or
organizations to carry out programs to increase public
awareness and education concerning Illinois coal, to implement

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coal research and coal demonstration and commercialization
projects, and to carry out programs designed to preserve and
enhance markets for Illinois coal.
(c) To make a reasonable attempt, before initiating any
projects under this Act, to avoid duplication of support for
previous or ongoing activities, or projects that would be more
appropriately funded under the Illinois Coal and Energy
Development Bond Act.
(d) To seek, accept and expend gifts or grants in any form,
from any public agency or any other source, for the purposes of
this Act.
(e) To adopt, amend and repeal rules, regulations and
guidelines to implement and administer this Act.
(Source: P.A. 89-499, eff. 6-28-96.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.