Sen. David Koehler

Filed: 5/2/2023

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1555

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1555 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment Act.
 
6    Section 5. Findings and purpose. The General Assembly
7finds that:
8    (1) Recycling rates have been stagnant in Illinois for
9over 15 years. Many Illinois counties continue to fall short
10of the long-standing recycling goal of 25% established in 1988
11in the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act.
12    (2) In Illinois, more than 40% (over 7,000,000 tons per
13year) of municipal solid waste disposed of in landfills is
14comprised of packaging and paper products. Of this amount,
15nearly 80% consists of materials commonly collected in
16curbside recycling programs in areas of the State with mature

 

 

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1recycling programs. The remainder includes packaging products
2such as polystyrene, #3-#7 plastics, plastic bags, flexible
3pouches, and other plastic films which are not currently
4acceptable in curbside recycling and for which limited
5drop-off recycling options exist.
6    (3) Consumers have limited sustainable purchasing choices.
7Illinois residents are generating packaging and paper waste
8that is beyond their ability to reuse or recycle. Consumers
9are also given confusing, inconsistent messages through
10various means about which materials can be recycled, and thus
11inadvertently create contamination in recycling streams. There
12is widespread recycling fatigue and public skepticism about
13the efficacy of recycling in Illinois.
14    (4) Volatility in global recycling markets due to import
15restrictions such as the China National Sword policy, as well
16as impacts on supply chains and material demand due to the
17COVID-19 pandemic, have further challenged markets for
18recycled materials and destabilized the recycling system in
19the State.
20    (5) Significant and increasing quantities of plastics and
21packaging materials are seen in the environment, including in
22Illinois rivers, lakes, and streams. This pollution impacts
23the drinking water, wildlife, and recreational value of vital
24natural resources.
25    (6) Consumer brands are solely responsible for choices
26about the types and amounts of packaging used to package

 

 

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1products. Units of local government and residents must,
2therefore, manage increasingly complex materials even though
3they have no input in designing or bringing these materials to
4market.
5    (7) Units of local government are expected to fund
6collection and processing costs for an increasing volume of
7packaging and paper products, and the cost of recycling
8programs continues to rise with the complexity of the material
9stream that material recycling facilities are required to
10manage. Furthermore, many multifamily residences and rural
11areas of the State do not have access to adequate recycling
12opportunities.
13    (8) As materials continue to be landfilled and littered,
14lower-income and rural communities across the State bear
15environmental, health, and economic consequences.
16    (9) By failing to reuse or recycle packaging and paper
17products, Illinois loses economic value and green sector jobs.
18Establishing postconsumer recycled content requirements for
19rigid plastics will increase markets for this increasingly
20common packaging material, reduce demand for natural
21resources, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
22    (10) An assessment of current recycling and materials
23management practices in the State, including evaluation of
24collections, access to service, capacity, costs, gaps, and
25needs associated with diverting packaging and paper products
26from disposal, will provide needed information on current

 

 

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1conditions and support identification of future needs to
2manage packaging and paper products in a sustainable,
3environmentally protective, and cost-effective manner.
4    (11) The Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment will provide
5data to facilitate future consideration of product stewardship
6legislation for packaging and paper products, including to
7establish performance targets, calculate cost impacts, and
8assign responsibilities.
 
9    Section 10. Definitions. In this Act:
10    "Advisory Council" means the Statewide Recycling Needs
11Assessment Advisory Council established under Section 20.
12    "Agency" means the Environmental Protection Agency.
13    "Compost" has the meaning given to that term in Section
143.150 of the Environmental Protection Act.
15    "Compostable material" means a material that is designed
16to contact, contain, or carry a product that can be collected
17for composting and that is capable of undergoing aerobic
18biological decomposition in a controlled composting system as
19demonstrated by meeting ASTM D6400, ASTM D6868, or any
20successor standards.
21    "Composting rate" means the percentage of discarded
22materials that are managed through composting. A composting
23rate is calculated by dividing the total weight of all
24packaging and paper products that are collected for composting
25by the total weight of all packaging and paper products sold,

 

 

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1distributed, or served to consumers in the State during the
2study period.
3    "Covered entity" means a person or entity responsible for:
4        (1) a single or multifamily residence, either
5    individually or jointly through a unit of local
6    government;
7        (2) a public or private school for grades kindergarten
8    through 12th grade;
9        (3) a State or local government facility; or
10        (4) a public space, including, but not limited to,
11    public spaces, such as parks, trails, transit stations,
12    and pedestrian areas for which the State or a unit of local
13    government is responsible.
14    "Curbside recycling" means the collection of recyclable
15materials from covered entities at the site where the
16recyclable materials are generated.
17    "Director" means the Director of the Agency.
18    "Drop-off recycling" means the collection of recyclable
19material from covered entities at one or more centralized
20sites.
21    "Environmental justice community" means environmental
22justice community as defined by the Illinois Solar for All
23Program, as that definition is updated from time to time by the
24Illinois Power Agency and the Administrator of the Illinois
25Solar for All Program.
26    "Hauler" means a person who collects recyclable or

 

 

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1compostable materials and transports them to an MRF or compost
2facility, or to an intermediate facility from which materials
3are then transported to an MRF or compost facility.
4    "Material recovery facility" or "MRF" means a facility
5where recyclable materials collected via curbside recycling or
6drop-off recycling are consolidated and sorted for return to
7the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials.
8    "Packaging" means a discrete material or category of
9material, regardless of recyclability. "Packaging" includes,
10but is not limited to, a material type, such as paper, plastic,
11glass, metal, or multi-material, that is:
12        (1) used to protect, contain, transport, or serve a
13    product;
14        (2) sold or supplied to consumers expressly for the
15    purpose of protecting, containing, transporting, or
16    serving products;
17        (3) attached to a product or its container for the
18    purpose of marketing or communicating information about
19    the product;
20        (4) supplied at the point of sale to facilitate the
21    delivery of the product; or
22        (5) supplied to or purchased by consumers expressly
23    for the purpose of facilitating food or beverage
24    consumption and ordinarily disposed of after a single use
25    or short-term use, whether or not it could be reused.
26    "Packaging" does not include:

 

 

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1        (1) a medical device or packaging that is included
2    with products regulated:
3            (A) as a drug, medical device, or dietary
4        supplement by the United States Food and Drug
5        Administration under the Federal Food, Drug, and
6        Cosmetic Act;
7            (B) as a combination product as defined under 21
8        CFR 3.2(e); or
9            (C) under the federal Dietary Supplement Health
10        and Education Act of 1994;
11        (2) animal biologics, including, but not limited to,
12    vaccines, bacterins, antisera, diagnostic kits, other
13    products of biological origin, and other packaging and
14    paper products regulated by the United States Department
15    of Agriculture under the federal Virus, Serum, Toxin Act;
16        (3) packaging regulated under the Federal Insecticide,
17    Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act or another applicable
18    federal law, rule, or regulation; and
19        (4) beverage containers subject to a returnable
20    container deposit, if applicable.
21    "Paper product" means:
22        (1) paper that can or has been printed on to create
23    flyers, brochures, booklets, catalogs, greeting cards,
24    telephone directories, newspapers, magazines; and
25        (2) paper used for copying, writing, or any other
26    general use.

 

 

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1    "Paper product" does not include:
2        (1) paper that, by virtue of its anticipated use,
3    could become unsafe or unsanitary to recycle; or
4        (2) any form of bound book, including, but not limited
5    to, bound books for literary, textual, or reference
6    purposes.
7    "Person" means any individual, partnership, copartnership,
8firm, company, limited liability company, corporation,
9association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, political
10subdivision, State agency, any other legal entity, or their
11legal representative, agent, or assign.
12    "Postconsumer material" means packaging or paper products
13that have served their intended end use as consumer items.
14"Postconsumer material" does not include a by-product or waste
15material generated during or after the completion of a
16manufacturing or converting process.
17    "Postconsumer recycled content" means the portion of an
18item of packaging or paper product made from postconsumer
19material that has been recycled.
20    "Recovery rate" means the percentage of packaging and
21paper products recovered for recycling, reclamation, reuse, or
22composting. The recovery rate is calculated by dividing the
23total weight of all packaging and paper products collected for
24recycling, reclamation, reuse, or composting by the total
25weight of all packaging and paper products sold, distributed,
26or served to consumers in this State during the study period.

 

 

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1    "Recycling" has the meaning given to "recycling,
2reclamation or reuse" in Section 3.380 of the Environmental
3Protection Act. "Recycling" does not include landfill disposal
4of packaging or paper products or the residue resulting from
5the processing of packaging or paper products at an MRF, use as
6alternative daily cover or any other beneficial use at a
7landfill, incineration, energy recovery, or energy generation
8by means of combustion, or final conversion of packaging and
9paper products or their components and by-products to a fuel.
10    "Recycling rate" means the percentage of packaging and
11paper products returned to the economic mainstream in the form
12of raw materials or products rather than being disposed of or
13discarded. The recycling rate is calculated by dividing the
14total weight of all packaging and paper products that are
15collected for recycling by the total weight of all packaging
16and paper products sold, distributed, or served to consumers
17in the State during the study period, not including the
18residue that is landfilled after processing by an MRF.
19    "Restaurant" means a business having sales of ready-to-eat
20food for immediate consumption comprising at least 51% of the
21total sales, excluding the sale of liquor.
22    "Retailer" means any person engaged in the business of
23making sales at retail that generate occupation or use tax
24revenue, including, but not limited to, sales made through an
25Internet transaction to deliver an item to a consumer in the
26State. "Retailer" includes a restaurant.

 

 

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1    "Reusable" means:
2        (1) designed to be refilled or used repeatedly for its
3    original intended purpose and is returnable;
4        (2) safe for washing and sanitizing according to
5    applicable State food safety laws; and
6        (3) with the exception of ceramic products, capable of
7    being recycled at the end of use.
8    "Reuse" means the return of packaging to the economic
9stream for use in the same kind of application intended for the
10original packaging without effectuating a change in the
11original composition of the package, the identity of the
12product, or the components thereof.
13    "Reuse" means the return of packaging to the economic
14stream for use in the same kind of application intended for the
15original packaging without effectuating a change in the
16original composition of the package, the identity of the
17product, or the components thereof.
18    "Rigid plastic" means packaging made of plastic that has a
19relatively inflexible finite shape or form and is capable of
20maintaining its shape while empty or while holding other
21products.
22    "Service provider" means a hauler, an MRF, or a composting
23facility.
24    "Single-use packaging or product" means a packaging or
25product that is supplied to or purchased by consumers
26expressly for the purpose of facilitating food or beverage

 

 

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1consumption and that is ordinarily disposed of after a single
2use or short-term use, whether or not it could be reused.
3    "Study period" means the period represented by the data
4compiled and analyzed in the completion of the Statewide
5Recycling Needs Assessment. The study period shall be a
6minimum of a one-year calendar period not earlier than 2022
7and shall be clearly defined in the scope of work. If more than
8one year of data is used, data shall be presented on an annual
9basis.
 
10    Section 15. Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment Advisory
11Council.
12    (a) The Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment Advisory
13Council shall be appointed by the Agency. On or before January
141, 2024, the Director shall appoint members to the Advisory
15Council to provide advice and recommendations to the Agency in
16the drafting, amendment, and finalization of the Statewide
17Recycling Needs Assessment.
18    (b) In appointing members to the Advisory Council under
19subsection (a), the Director shall consider representatives
20from all geographic regions of the State, all sizes of
21communities in the State, all supply chain participants in the
22recycling system, and the racial and gender diversity of this
23State.
24    (c) Members of the Advisory Council shall include, but
25shall not be limited to, the following voting members:

 

 

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1        (1) four individuals representing material recovery
2    facilities in the State, no more than 2 of whom shall
3    represent an MRF that accepts recyclables from Cook County
4    or the collar counties;
5        (2) four individuals representing haulers, one of whom
6    shall represent a statewide organization representing
7    haulers, one of whom shall represent a publicly traded
8    hauler, one of whom shall represent a privately owned
9    hauler, and one of whom shall operate a recycling drop-off
10    facility;
11        (3) one individual representing compost collection and
12    processing facilities;
13        (4) seven individuals representing rural and urban
14    units of local government, one of whom shall represent a
15    county with a population of less than 50,000, one of whom
16    shall represent a county with a population of more than
17    50,000 and less than 1,000,000, one of whom shall
18    represent a county with a population of more than
19    1,000,000, one of whom shall represent a municipality, one
20    of whom shall represent a municipal joint action agency,
21    one of whom shall represent a township, and one of whom
22    shall represent a municipality with a population of
23    1,000,000 or more;
24        (5) two individuals representing retailers, one of
25    whom shall represent a statewide association of retailers;
26        (6) two individuals representing environmental

 

 

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1    organizations;
2        (7) one individual representing an environmental
3    justice advocacy organization;
4        (8) one individual representing a statewide
5    manufacturing association;
6        (9) one individual representing manufacturers of
7    products containing postconsumer material, or one or more
8    associations of such manufacturers;
9        (10) one individual representing manufacturers of
10    packaging and paper products utilizing virgin materials,
11    or one or more associations of suppliers of substrates of
12    packaging and paper products; and
13        (11) four individuals representing producers of
14    consumer products.
15    (d) An individual may be appointed to only one position on
16the Council. Appointments shall be for the period required to
17complete the needs assessment components of this Act.
18    (e) The duties of the Advisory Council are as follows:
19        (1) to provide guidance on the scope of work for the
20    Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment required under
21    Section 25;
22        (2) to assist in the provision of data required to
23    complete the needs assessment;
24        (3) to review and comment on the needs assessment
25    prior to completion;
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1    legislative recommendations, on how to effectively
2    establish and implement a producer responsibility program
3    in the State for packaging materials and paper products,
4    including recommendations regarding the responsibilities
5    of producers under a producer responsibility program; and
6        (5) on or before December 1, 2026, to prepare and
7    submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the
8    General Assembly and the Governor, which shall include an
9    opportunity for a minority report.
10    (f) The Advisory Council:
11        (1) shall meet at the call of the Chair, except for the
12    first meeting, which shall be called by the Director;
13        (2) shall meet at least quarterly or as determined by
14    the Advisory Council Chair;
15        (3) shall elect a Chair from among Advisory Council
16    members by a simple majority vote;
17        (4) may adopt bylaws and a charter for the operation
18    of its business for the purposes of this Act; and
19        (5) shall be provided administrative support by the
20    Agency and Agency staff.
21    (g) The Agency may select and hire a third-party
22facilitator for the Advisory Council.
 
23    Section 20. Statewide needs assessment.
24    (a) The Agency shall issue a competitive solicitation in
25accordance with the Illinois Procurement Code to select a

 

 

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1qualified consultant to conduct a statewide needs assessment
2to assess recycling needs in the State for packaging and paper
3products, including identifying current conditions and an
4evaluation of the capacity, costs, gaps, and needs associated
5with recycling and the diversion of packaging and paper
6products. The Agency shall select the consultant on or before
7July 1, 2024. The needs assessment shall be funded by an
8appropriation from the Agency's Solid Waste Management Fund or
9other appropriated funding.
10    (b) Packaging and paper products to be included in the
11needs assessment shall include, but may not be limited to, the
12following materials: gable-top cartons, paper cups, paper food
13packaging, mailers and envelopes, Kraft paper, corrugated
14cardboard, chipboard, coated groundwood, groundwood paper,
15coated paper board, paperboard boxes, pulpwood trays and
16take-out containers, polyethylene flexible bags, polyethylene
17wraps, polyethylene films, rigid plastics, glass bottles and
18jars, aluminum or steel aerosol cans, aluminum or steel cans,
19aluminum foil wrap, aluminum foil containers, other aluminum
20containers, and steel spiral wound containers.
21    (c) The needs assessment shall address, at a minimum, the
22following factors for covered entities:
23        (1) the quantity, by weight and type, of packaging
24    materials and paper products sold at retail, distributed,
25    or served to consumers in the State by material type and
26    format;

 

 

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1        (2) current collection systems for packaging and paper
2    products in the State, including for reuse, recycling,
3    composting, and disposal;
4        (3) the processing capacity and infrastructure for
5    reusable, recyclable, and compostable packaging and paper
6    products collected in the State, including capacity and
7    infrastructure outside the State which serves or may serve
8    the State;
9        (4) current reuse, recycling, and composting rates for
10    packaging and paper products in the State by material
11    type;
12        (5) current postconsumer recycled content use by
13    material type for all packaging and paper products sold in
14    the State;
15        (6) current system-wide costs for the collection,
16    reuse, recycling, and composting of packaging and paper
17    products;
18        (7) current operational and capital funding
19    limitations impacting reuse, recycling, and composting
20    access and availability for packaging and paper products
21    throughout the State;
22        (8) collection and processing system needs to provide
23    access to curbside recycling services for all covered
24    entities within municipalities with a population of 1,500
25    or more based on the most recent United States Census,
26    with collection provided no less frequently than every 2

 

 

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1    weeks, and at least one drop-off location for recyclable
2    materials within 15 miles of the municipal boundary for
3    municipalities with a population less than 1,500, with
4    needs identified on a county-by-county basis for all
5    counties in the State, and the estimated costs to meet the
6    access requirements;
7        (9) program costs and capital investments required to
8    achieve a collective 50% recycling rate by December 31,
9    2035 across all packaging and paper products, including
10    investment into existing and future reuse, recycling, and
11    composting infrastructure for packaging and paper
12    products;
13        (10) existing federal and State statutory provisions
14    and public and private funding sources for the reduction,
15    reuse, recycling, and composting of packaging and paper
16    products;
17        (11) the market conditions and opportunities for
18    reusable, recyclable, and compostable packaging and paper
19    products in the State and regionally;
20        (12) multilingual public education needs for the
21    reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting of packaging
22    and paper products, including, but not limited to, a
23    scientific survey of current awareness among residents of
24    this State of proper end-of-life management for packaging
25    and paper products and the needs associated with the
26    reduction of contamination rates at MRFs in the State; and

 

 

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1        (13) an assessment of environmental justice and
2    recycling equity in the State, including, but not limited
3    to:
4            (A) an evaluation of current access to and the
5        performance of curbside and drop-off recycling
6        programs in units of local government designated as
7        environmental justice areas; and
8            (B) a comparison of the location of MRFs and
9        compost facilities in units of local government that
10        have been designated as environmental justice areas
11        with units of local government that are not so
12        designated.
13    (d) Persons with data or information required to complete
14the statewide needs assessment shall provide the Agency with
15such data or information in a timely fashion to assist in
16completing the statewide needs assessment.
17    (e) On or before December 31, 2025, the Agency shall
18provide the draft needs assessment to the Advisory Council.
19The Advisory Council shall provide written comments to the
20Agency within 60 days after receipt of the needs assessment.
21The Agency's consultant shall include an assessment of
22comments received in the revised draft needs assessment
23submitted to the Agency and shall provide a summary and an
24analysis of any issues raised by the Advisory Council and
25significant changes suggested by any such comments, a
26statement of the reasons why any significant changes were not

 

 

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1incorporated into the results of the study, and a description
2of any changes made to the results of the needs assessment as a
3result of such comments. The needs assessment shall be
4finalized by the Agency on or before May 1, 2026.
 
5    Section 25. Severability. The provisions of this Act shall
6be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision
7of this Act or the applicability thereof to any person or
8circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act
9and the application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
 
10    Section 30. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
11changing Section 22.15 as follows:
 
12    (415 ILCS 5/22.15)
13    Sec. 22.15. Solid Waste Management Fund; fees.
14    (a) There is hereby created within the State Treasury a
15special fund to be known as the Solid Waste Management Fund, to
16be constituted from the fees collected by the State pursuant
17to this Section, from repayments of loans made from the Fund
18for solid waste projects, from registration fees collected
19pursuant to the Consumer Electronics Recycling Act, and from
20amounts transferred into the Fund pursuant to Public Act
21100-433. Moneys received by either the Agency or the
22Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity in repayment
23of loans made pursuant to the Illinois Solid Waste Management

 

 

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1Act shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.
2    (b) The Agency shall assess and collect a fee in the amount
3set forth herein from the owner or operator of each sanitary
4landfill permitted or required to be permitted by the Agency
5to dispose of solid waste if the sanitary landfill is located
6off the site where such waste was produced and if such sanitary
7landfill is owned, controlled, and operated by a person other
8than the generator of such waste. The Agency shall deposit all
9fees collected into the Solid Waste Management Fund. If a site
10is contiguous to one or more landfills owned or operated by the
11same person, the volumes permanently disposed of by each
12landfill shall be combined for purposes of determining the fee
13under this subsection. Beginning on July 1, 2018, and on the
14first day of each month thereafter during fiscal years 2019
15through 2023, the State Comptroller shall direct and State
16Treasurer shall transfer an amount equal to 1/12 of $5,000,000
17per fiscal year from the Solid Waste Management Fund to the
18General Revenue Fund.
19        (1) If more than 150,000 cubic yards of non-hazardous
20    solid waste is permanently disposed of at a site in a
21    calendar year, the owner or operator shall either pay a
22    fee of 95 cents per cubic yard or, alternatively, the
23    owner or operator may weigh the quantity of the solid
24    waste permanently disposed of with a device for which
25    certification has been obtained under the Weights and
26    Measures Act and pay a fee of $2.00 per ton of solid waste

 

 

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1    permanently disposed of. In no case shall the fee
2    collected or paid by the owner or operator under this
3    paragraph exceed $1.55 per cubic yard or $3.27 per ton.
4        (2) If more than 100,000 cubic yards but not more than
5    150,000 cubic yards of non-hazardous waste is permanently
6    disposed of at a site in a calendar year, the owner or
7    operator shall pay a fee of $52,630.
8        (3) If more than 50,000 cubic yards but not more than
9    100,000 cubic yards of non-hazardous solid waste is
10    permanently disposed of at a site in a calendar year, the
11    owner or operator shall pay a fee of $23,790.
12        (4) If more than 10,000 cubic yards but not more than
13    50,000 cubic yards of non-hazardous solid waste is
14    permanently disposed of at a site in a calendar year, the
15    owner or operator shall pay a fee of $7,260.
16        (5) If not more than 10,000 cubic yards of
17    non-hazardous solid waste is permanently disposed of at a
18    site in a calendar year, the owner or operator shall pay a
19    fee of $1050.
20    (c) (Blank).
21    (d) The Agency shall establish rules relating to the
22collection of the fees authorized by this Section. Such rules
23shall include, but not be limited to:
24        (1) necessary records identifying the quantities of
25    solid waste received or disposed;
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1    the payment of fees to the Agency;
2        (3) the time and manner of payment of fees to the
3    Agency, which payments shall not be more often than
4    quarterly; and
5        (4) procedures setting forth criteria establishing
6    when an owner or operator may measure by weight or volume
7    during any given quarter or other fee payment period.
8    (e) Pursuant to appropriation, all monies in the Solid
9Waste Management Fund shall be used by the Agency for the
10purposes set forth in this Section and in the Illinois Solid
11Waste Management Act, including for the costs of fee
12collection and administration, and for the administration of
13the Consumer Electronics Recycling Act, and the Drug Take-Back
14Act, and the Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment.
15    (f) The Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements
16and to promulgate such rules as are necessary to carry out its
17duties under this Section and the Illinois Solid Waste
18Management Act.
19    (g) On the first day of January, April, July, and October
20of each year, beginning on July 1, 1996, the State Comptroller
21and Treasurer shall transfer $500,000 from the Solid Waste
22Management Fund to the Hazardous Waste Fund. Moneys
23transferred under this subsection (g) shall be used only for
24the purposes set forth in item (1) of subsection (d) of Section
2522.2.
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1assistance to units of local government for the performance of
2inspecting, investigating, and enforcement activities pursuant
3to subsection (r) of Section 4 Section 4(r) at nonhazardous
4solid waste disposal sites.
5    (i) The Agency is authorized to conduct household waste
6collection and disposal programs.
7    (j) A unit of local government, as defined in the Local
8Solid Waste Disposal Act, in which a solid waste disposal
9facility is located may establish a fee, tax, or surcharge
10with regard to the permanent disposal of solid waste. All
11fees, taxes, and surcharges collected under this subsection
12shall be utilized for solid waste management purposes,
13including long-term monitoring and maintenance of landfills,
14planning, implementation, inspection, enforcement and other
15activities consistent with the Solid Waste Management Act and
16the Local Solid Waste Disposal Act, or for any other
17environment-related purpose, including, but not limited to, an
18environment-related public works project, but not for the
19construction of a new pollution control facility other than a
20household hazardous waste facility. However, the total fee,
21tax or surcharge imposed by all units of local government
22under this subsection (j) upon the solid waste disposal
23facility shall not exceed:
24        (1) 60¢ per cubic yard if more than 150,000 cubic
25    yards of non-hazardous solid waste is permanently disposed
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1    operator weighs the quantity of the solid waste received
2    with a device for which certification has been obtained
3    under the Weights and Measures Act, in which case the fee
4    shall not exceed $1.27 per ton of solid waste permanently
5    disposed of.
6        (2) $33,350 if more than 100,000 cubic yards, but not
7    more than 150,000 cubic yards, of non-hazardous waste is
8    permanently disposed of at the site in a calendar year.
9        (3) $15,500 if more than 50,000 cubic yards, but not
10    more than 100,000 cubic yards, of non-hazardous solid
11    waste is permanently disposed of at the site in a calendar
12    year.
13        (4) $4,650 if more than 10,000 cubic yards, but not
14    more than 50,000 cubic yards, of non-hazardous solid waste
15    is permanently disposed of at the site in a calendar year.
16        (5) $650 if not more than 10,000 cubic yards of
17    non-hazardous solid waste is permanently disposed of at
18    the site in a calendar year.
19    The corporate authorities of the unit of local government
20may use proceeds from the fee, tax, or surcharge to reimburse a
21highway commissioner whose road district lies wholly or
22partially within the corporate limits of the unit of local
23government for expenses incurred in the removal of
24nonhazardous, nonfluid municipal waste that has been dumped on
25public property in violation of a State law or local
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1    For the disposal of solid waste from general construction
2or demolition debris recovery facilities as defined in
3subsection (a-1) of Section 3.160, the total fee, tax, or
4surcharge imposed by all units of local government under this
5subsection (j) upon the solid waste disposal facility shall
6not exceed 50% of the applicable amount set forth above. A unit
7of local government, as defined in the Local Solid Waste
8Disposal Act, in which a general construction or demolition
9debris recovery facility is located may establish a fee, tax,
10or surcharge on the general construction or demolition debris
11recovery facility with regard to the permanent disposal of
12solid waste by the general construction or demolition debris
13recovery facility at a solid waste disposal facility, provided
14that such fee, tax, or surcharge shall not exceed 50% of the
15applicable amount set forth above, based on the total amount
16of solid waste transported from the general construction or
17demolition debris recovery facility for disposal at solid
18waste disposal facilities, and the unit of local government
19and fee shall be subject to all other requirements of this
20subsection (j).
21    A county or Municipal Joint Action Agency that imposes a
22fee, tax, or surcharge under this subsection may use the
23proceeds thereof to reimburse a municipality that lies wholly
24or partially within its boundaries for expenses incurred in
25the removal of nonhazardous, nonfluid municipal waste that has
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1local ordinance.
2    If the fees are to be used to conduct a local sanitary
3landfill inspection or enforcement program, the unit of local
4government must enter into a written delegation agreement with
5the Agency pursuant to subsection (r) of Section 4. The unit of
6local government and the Agency shall enter into such a
7written delegation agreement within 60 days after the
8establishment of such fees. At least annually, the Agency
9shall conduct an audit of the expenditures made by units of
10local government from the funds granted by the Agency to the
11units of local government for purposes of local sanitary
12landfill inspection and enforcement programs, to ensure that
13the funds have been expended for the prescribed purposes under
14the grant.
15    The fees, taxes or surcharges collected under this
16subsection (j) shall be placed by the unit of local government
17in a separate fund, and the interest received on the moneys in
18the fund shall be credited to the fund. The monies in the fund
19may be accumulated over a period of years to be expended in
20accordance with this subsection.
21    A unit of local government, as defined in the Local Solid
22Waste Disposal Act, shall prepare and post on its website, in
23April of each year, a report that details spending plans for
24monies collected in accordance with this subsection. The
25report will at a minimum include the following:
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1    subsection.
2        (2) The most current balance of monies collected
3    pursuant to this subsection.
4        (3) An itemized accounting of all monies expended for
5    the previous year pursuant to this subsection.
6        (4) An estimation of monies to be collected for the
7    following 3 years pursuant to this subsection.
8        (5) A narrative detailing the general direction and
9    scope of future expenditures for one, 2 and 3 years.
10    The exemptions granted under Sections 22.16 and 22.16a,
11and under subsection (k) of this Section, shall be applicable
12to any fee, tax or surcharge imposed under this subsection
13(j); except that the fee, tax or surcharge authorized to be
14imposed under this subsection (j) may be made applicable by a
15unit of local government to the permanent disposal of solid
16waste after December 31, 1986, under any contract lawfully
17executed before June 1, 1986 under which more than 150,000
18cubic yards (or 50,000 tons) of solid waste is to be
19permanently disposed of, even though the waste is exempt from
20the fee imposed by the State under subsection (b) of this
21Section pursuant to an exemption granted under Section 22.16.
22    (k) In accordance with the findings and purposes of the
23Illinois Solid Waste Management Act, beginning January 1, 1989
24the fee under subsection (b) and the fee, tax or surcharge
25under subsection (j) shall not apply to:
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1        (2) waste which is pollution control waste;
2        (3) waste from recycling, reclamation or reuse
3    processes which have been approved by the Agency as being
4    designed to remove any contaminant from wastes so as to
5    render such wastes reusable, provided that the process
6    renders at least 50% of the waste reusable; the exemption
7    set forth in this paragraph (3) of this subsection (k)
8    shall not apply to general construction or demolition
9    debris recovery facilities as defined in subsection (a-1)
10    of Section 3.160;
11        (4) non-hazardous solid waste that is received at a
12    sanitary landfill and composted or recycled through a
13    process permitted by the Agency; or
14        (5) any landfill which is permitted by the Agency to
15    receive only demolition or construction debris or
16    landscape waste.
17(Source: P.A. 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-636, eff. 6-10-20;
18102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-310, eff. 8-6-21; 102-444, eff.
198-20-21; 102-699, eff. 4-19-22; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22;
20102-1055, eff. 6-10-22; revised 8-25-22.)
 
21    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22becoming law.".