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1 | | AN ACT concerning safety.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is |
5 | | amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
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6 | | (415 ILCS 20/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7053)
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7 | | Sec. 3. State agency materials recycling program.
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8 | | (a) All State agencies responsible for the maintenance of |
9 | | public lands in
the State shall, to the maximum extent |
10 | | feasible, use compost materials in all land maintenance
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11 | | activities which are to be paid with public funds.
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12 | | (a-5) All State agencies responsible for the maintenance of |
13 | | public lands in the State shall review its procurement |
14 | | specifications and policies to determine (1) if incorporating |
15 | | compost materials will help reduce stormwater run-off and |
16 | | increase infiltration of moisture in land maintenance |
17 | | activities and (2) the current recycled content usage and |
18 | | potential for additional recycled content usage by the Agency |
19 | | in land maintenance activities and report to the General |
20 | | Assembly by December 15, 2015. |
21 | | (b) The Department of Central Management Services, in |
22 | | coordination
with the Department of Commerce and Economic |
23 | | Opportunity, shall implement
waste reduction programs, |
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1 | | including source separation and collection, for
office |
2 | | wastepaper, corrugated containers, newsprint and mixed paper, |
3 | | in all
State buildings as appropriate and feasible. Such waste |
4 | | reduction programs
shall be designed to achieve waste |
5 | | reductions of at least 25% of
all such waste by December 31, |
6 | | 1995, and at least 50% of all such waste by
December 31, 2000. |
7 | | Any source separation and collection program
shall include, at |
8 | | a minimum, procedures for collecting and storing
recyclable |
9 | | materials, bins or containers for storing materials, and
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10 | | contractual or other arrangements with buyers of recyclable |
11 | | materials. If
market conditions so warrant, the Department of |
12 | | Central Management
Services, in coordination with the |
13 | | Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, may modify |
14 | | programs developed pursuant to this Section.
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15 | | The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (now |
16 | | Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) shall conduct |
17 | | waste
categorization studies of all State facilities for |
18 | | calendar years 1991,
1995 and 2000. Such studies shall be |
19 | | designed to assist the Department of
Central Management |
20 | | Services to achieve the waste reduction goals
established in |
21 | | this subsection.
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22 | | (c) Each State agency shall, upon consultation with the |
23 | | Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity,
periodically |
24 | | review its procurement procedures and specifications related
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25 | | to the purchase of products or supplies. Such procedures and
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26 | | specifications shall be modified as necessary to require the |
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1 | | procuring
agency to seek out products and supplies that contain |
2 | | recycled materials,
and to ensure that purchased products or |
3 | | supplies are reusable, durable or
made from recycled materials |
4 | | whenever economically and practically
feasible. In choosing |
5 | | among products or supplies that contain recycled
material, |
6 | | consideration shall be given to products and supplies with the
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7 | | highest recycled material content that is consistent with the |
8 | | effective and
efficient use of the product or supply.
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9 | | (d) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the |
10 | | Department of
Central Management Services shall procure |
11 | | recycled paper and paper products
as follows:
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12 | | (1) Beginning July 1, 1989, at least 10% of the
total |
13 | | dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by
the |
14 | | Department of Central Management Services shall be
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15 | | recycled paper and paper products.
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16 | | (2) Beginning July 1, 1992, at least 25% of the
total |
17 | | dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by
the |
18 | | Department of Central Management Services shall be
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19 | | recycled paper and paper products.
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20 | | (3) Beginning July 1, 1996, at least
40% of the total |
21 | | dollar value of paper and paper products
purchased by the |
22 | | Department of Central Management Services shall be
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23 | | recycled paper and paper products.
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24 | | (4) Beginning July 1, 2000, at least 50% of the total |
25 | | dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by the |
26 | | Department of Central Management
Services shall be |
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1 | | recycled paper and paper products.
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2 | | (e) Paper and paper products purchased from private vendors
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3 | | pursuant to printing contracts are not considered paper |
4 | | products for the
purposes of subsection (d). However, the |
5 | | Department of Central Management
Services shall report to the |
6 | | General Assembly on an annual
basis the total dollar value of |
7 | | printing contracts awarded to private
sector vendors that |
8 | | included the use of recycled paper.
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9 | | (f)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the |
10 | | recycled paper
and paper products referred to in subsection |
11 | | (d) shall contain postconsumer
or recovered paper |
12 | | materials as specified by paper category in this |
13 | | subsection:
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14 | | (i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper |
15 | | shall contain at
least 50% recovered paper material. |
16 | | Such recovered paper material, until
July 1, 1994, |
17 | | shall consist of at least 20% deinked stock or |
18 | | postconsumer
material; and beginning July 1, 1994, |
19 | | shall consist of at least 25%
deinked stock or |
20 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, |
21 | | shall
consist of at least 30% deinked stock or |
22 | | postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1998, |
23 | | shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock or
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24 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000, |
25 | | shall consist of at
least 50% deinked stock or |
26 | | postconsumer material.
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1 | | (ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994, |
2 | | shall contain at
least 25% postconsumer material; and |
3 | | beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 30% |
4 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, |
5 | | shall
contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and |
6 | | beginning July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 40% |
7 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,
2000, |
8 | | shall contain at least 45% postconsumer material.
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9 | | (iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994, |
10 | | shall contain at least
40% postconsumer material; and |
11 | | beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at
least 50% |
12 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, |
13 | | shall contain
at least 60% postconsumer material; and |
14 | | beginning July 1, 1998, shall
contain at least 70% |
15 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000,
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16 | | shall contain at least 80% postconsumer material.
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17 | | (iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1, |
18 | | 1994, shall
contain at least 35% postconsumer |
19 | | material; and beginning July 1, 1994,
shall contain at |
20 | | least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,
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21 | | 1996, shall contain at least 45% postconsumer |
22 | | material; and beginning July
1, 1998, shall contain at |
23 | | least 50% postconsumer material; and beginning
July 1, |
24 | | 2000, shall contain at least 55% postconsumer |
25 | | material.
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26 | | (v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall |
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1 | | contain at least
80% postconsumer material; and |
2 | | beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at
least 85% |
3 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, |
4 | | shall contain
at least 90% postconsumer material; and |
5 | | beginning July 1, 1998, shall
contain at least 95% |
6 | | postconsumer material.
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7 | | (2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer |
8 | | material" includes:
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9 | | (i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes from |
10 | | retail stores, office
buildings, homes, and so forth, |
11 | | after the waste has passed through its end
usage as a |
12 | | consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old |
13 | | newspapers,
mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and |
14 | | used cordage; and
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15 | | (ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes |
16 | | that are diverted or
separated from the municipal solid |
17 | | waste stream.
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18 | | (3) For the purposes of this Section, "recovered paper |
19 | | material" includes:
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20 | | (i) postconsumer material;
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21 | | (ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated |
22 | | after completion of the
papermaking process (that is, |
23 | | those manufacturing operations up to and
including the |
24 | | cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into |
25 | | smaller
rolls or rough sheets), including envelope |
26 | | cuttings, bindery trimmings, and
other paper and |
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1 | | paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting,
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2 | | forming, and other converting operations, or from bag, |
3 | | box and carton
manufacturing, and butt rolls, mill |
4 | | wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and
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5 | | (iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete |
6 | | inventories of
paper and paperboard manufacturers, |
7 | | merchants, wholesalers, dealers,
printers, converters, |
8 | | or others.
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9 | | (g) The Department of Central Management Services may
adopt |
10 | | regulations to carry out the provisions and
purposes of this |
11 | | Section.
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12 | | (h) Every State agency shall, in its procurement documents, |
13 | | specify
that, whenever economically and practically feasible, |
14 | | a product to be
procured must consist, wholly or in part, of |
15 | | recycled materials, or be
recyclable or reusable in whole or in |
16 | | part. When applicable, if state
guidelines are not already |
17 | | prescribed, State agencies shall follow USEPA
guidelines for |
18 | | federal procurement.
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19 | | (i) All State agencies shall cooperate with the Department |
20 | | of Central
Management Services in carrying out this Section. |
21 | | The Department of
Central Management Services may enter into |
22 | | cooperative purchasing
agreements with other governmental |
23 | | units in order to obtain volume
discounts, or for other reasons |
24 | | in accordance with the Governmental Joint
Purchasing Act, or in |
25 | | accordance with the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act
if |
26 | | governmental units of other states or the federal government |
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1 | | are involved.
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2 | | (j) The Department of Central Management Services shall |
3 | | submit an annual
report to the General Assembly concerning its |
4 | | implementation of the
State's collection and recycled paper |
5 | | procurement programs. This report
shall include a description |
6 | | of the actions that the Department of Central
Management |
7 | | Services has taken in the previous fiscal year to implement |
8 | | this
Section. This report shall be submitted on or before |
9 | | November 1 of each year.
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10 | | (k) The Department of Central Management Services, in
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11 | | cooperation with all other appropriate departments and |
12 | | agencies of the
State, shall institute whenever economically |
13 | | and practically feasible the
use of re-refined motor oil in all |
14 | | State-owned motor vehicles and the use
of remanufactured and |
15 | | retread tires whenever such use is practical,
beginning no |
16 | | later than July 1, 1992.
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17 | | (l) (Blank).
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18 | | (m) The Department of Central Management Services, in |
19 | | coordination with
the Department of Commerce and Community |
20 | | Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity), |
21 | | shall implement an aluminum
can recycling program in all State |
22 | | buildings within 270 days of the effective
date of this |
23 | | amendatory Act of 1997. The program shall provide for (1) the
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24 | | collection and storage of used aluminum cans in bins or other |
25 | | appropriate
containers made reasonably available to occupants |
26 | | and visitors of State
buildings and (2) the sale of used |
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1 | | aluminum cans to buyers of recyclable
materials.
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2 | | Proceeds from the sale of used aluminum cans shall be |
3 | | deposited into I-CYCLE
accounts maintained in the State Surplus |
4 | | Property Revolving Fund and, subject
to appropriation, shall be |
5 | | used by the Department of Central Management
Services and any |
6 | | other State agency to offset the costs of implementing the
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7 | | aluminum can recycling program under this Section.
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8 | | All State agencies having an aluminum can recycling program |
9 | | in place shall
continue with their current plan. If a State |
10 | | agency has an existing recycling
program in place, proceeds |
11 | | from the aluminum can recycling program may be
retained and |
12 | | distributed pursuant to that program, otherwise all revenue
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13 | | resulting from these programs shall be forwarded to Central |
14 | | Management
Services, I-CYCLE for placement into the |
15 | | appropriate account within the State
Surplus Property |
16 | | Revolving Fund, minus any operating costs associated with the
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17 | | program.
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18 | | (Source: P.A. 96-77, eff. 7-24-09.)
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19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
20 | | becoming law.
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