Public Act 097-0843
 
HB3881 EnrolledLRB097 14356 CEL 59191 b


  
    AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended  by 
adding Section 22.43a as follows:
 
    (415 ILCS 5/22.43a new)
    Sec. 22.43a. Establishment and expansion of landfills; ban 
in counties with more than 2,000,000 inhabitants. 
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person 
shall establish, nor shall the Agency issue a permit for the 
establishment of, a new municipal solid waste landfill unit or 
a new sanitary landfill in a county of more than 2,000,000 
inhabitants on or after the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of the 97th General Assembly.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person 
shall laterally expand, nor shall the Agency issue a permit for 
the lateral expansion of, a municipal solid waste landfill unit 
or the expansion of a sanitary landfill in a county of more 
than 2,000,000 inhabitants on or after the effective date of 
this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. 
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.