Public Act 103-0165
 
HB2622 EnrolledLRB103 29775 AWJ 56181 b


  
    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Downstate Forest Preserve District Act is 
amended  by changing Section 18.6a as follows:
 



    (70 ILCS 805/18.6a)  (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6340a)



    Sec. 18.6a. 
Each forest preserve district which has on its 
property a
sanitary landfill or pollution control facility may 
create,
maintain and increase a separate fund to be known as 
the "Landfill Expense
Fund" for the purpose of paying all 
costs and expenses incurred by said
forest preserve district 
for or as a result of that sanitary landfill or pollution 
control facility either during its operation or after
its 
closure, including but not limited to the cost of maintenance,

monitoring, sampling or testing of groundwater or landfill 
gas, fencing,
erosion control, improvements, restoration, 
filling,
covering, revegetation, seeding, regrading, 
compacting, excavating or
removal of materials, remedial 
action, response, the collection, treatment
or disposal of 
leachate and landfill gas, preventive and corrective actions

necessary or appropriate in circumstances which will or may 
cause an
immediate or long-term danger to the environment or 
the public health or
which will or may prevent or delay public 
usage of the property, and
payment of damages or settlements 
awarded or made as a result of the
operation of the sanitary 
landfill or pollution control facility,
either during its 
operation or after its closure.  This fund may be
maintained 
for a period not to exceed 40 years from the date of closure of

the facility and may be invested as provided in this Act and 
interest
accumulated thereon.

    In order to accumulate monies for this fund, each
forest 
preserve district having such a fund may, in addition to other

charges imposed for the deposit of material at the sanitary 
landfill or pollution control facility by the owner or 
operator of the
landfill, also impose a charge upon the 
operator or users of a landfill
or facility in existence on or 
before July 1, 1988 sufficient to
provide a fund which will pay 
for the costs set forth herein; however,
such charge shall not 
exceed 70¢ per cubic yard of solid waste permanently
disposed 
of at the landfill or facility.

(Source: P.A. 88-681, eff. 12-22-94.)