Bill Text: IL SB1696 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the PFAS Reduction Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to follow the most up-to-date guidance from the United States Environmental Protection Agency on controlling the discharge of PFAS. Requires the Agency to create a PFAS monitoring plan focusing on: monitoring PFAS contamination at solid waste, wastewater, and stormwater facilities, hazardous waste landfills, and facilities with air emissions; gathering State-specific information in order to craft effective policies around PFAS; identifying areas of particular concern due to PFAS concentrations or routes of exposure that need quick action; and gathering data that galvanizes support for PFAS source reduction and pollution prevention. Requires the plan to be submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly by July 1, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-04-21 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy [SB1696 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1696-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1696 Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. Adriane Johnson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 170/20 new
Amends the PFAS Reduction Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt rules that require: (1) the owner or operator of each landfill in the State to establish and implement a plan to identify and address PFAS-contaminated leachate that is generated at the landfill before it migrates off site or is sent off site for treatment or disposal and (2) the owner or operator of each wastewater treatment facility in the State to establish and implement a plan to treat PFAS-contaminated wastewater prior to its discharge from the facility. Provides that owners or operators of landfills or wastewater treatment plants who violate the rules are subject to the same penalties as provided for manufacturers under other provisions of the Act. Authorizes these penalties to be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the People of the State of Illinois by the State's Attorney of the county in which the violation occurred or by the Attorney General. Specifies that any penalties collected in an action in which the Attorney General has prevailed shall be deposited in the Environmental Protection Trust Fund, to be used in accordance with the provisions of the Environmental Protection Trust Fund Act.
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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 PFAS Reduction Act is amended by adding
Section 20 as follows:
(415 ILCS 170/20 new)
Sec. 20. Landfills; wastewater treatment.
(a) The Agency shall adopt rules requiring:
(1) the owner or operator of each landfill in the
State to establish and implement a plan to identify and
address PFAS-contaminated leachate that is generated at
the landfill before it migrates off site or is sent for
off-site treatment or disposal; and
(2) the owner or operator of each wastewater treatment
facility in the State to establish and implement a plan to
treat PFAS-contaminated wastewater prior to its discharge
from the facility.
(b) An owner or operator of a landfill or wastewater
treatment plant who violates the rules adopted under this
Section is subject to the same penalties as provided for
manufacturers under Section 35. The penalties provided for in
this Section may be recovered in a civil action brought in the
name of the People of the State of Illinois by the State's

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Attorney of the county in which the violation occurred or by
the Attorney General. Any penalties collected under this
Section in an action in which the Attorney General has
prevailed shall be deposited in the Environmental Protection
Trust Fund, to be used in accordance with the provisions of the
Environmental Protection Trust Fund Act.