Bill Text: IL SB3728 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes the prohibition on the use of clean construction or demolition debris as fill material in a current or former quarry, mine, or other excavation without the authorization of the Environmental Protection Agency inapplicable to a site that is located in a county with a population of not less than 600,000 nor more than 700,000 on April 1, 2010, was permitted by the Agency as a clean construction or demolition debris fill operation before July 1, 2008, and is the subject of a consent decree. Specifies that the use of clean construction or demolition debris as fill material at such a site may continue under a permit issued before July 1, 2008 and in accordance with the law as it existed on July 1, 2008. Requires permit renewals for such sites to be made in accordance with the law as it existed on July 1, 2008. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB3728 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SB3728-Amended.html
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 3728
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 3728 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 22.43a as follows:
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| 6 | (415 ILCS 5/22.43a new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 22.43a. Establishment and expansion of landfills; ban | ||||||
| 8 | in counties with more than 2,000,000 inhabitants. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person | ||||||
| 10 | shall establish, nor shall the Agency issue a permit for the | ||||||
| 11 | establishment of, a new municipal solid waste landfill unit or | ||||||
| 12 | a new sanitary landfill in a county of more than 2,000,000 | ||||||
| 13 | inhabitants on or after the effective date of this amendatory | ||||||
| 14 | Act of the 97th General Assembly. | ||||||
| 15 | (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person | ||||||
| 16 | shall laterally expand, nor shall the Agency issue a permit for | ||||||
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| 1 | the lateral expansion of, a municipal solid waste landfill unit | ||||||
| 2 | or the expansion of a sanitary landfill in a county of more | ||||||
| 3 | than 2,000,000 inhabitants on or after the effective date of | ||||||
| 4 | this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly.
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| 5 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 6 | becoming law.".
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