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Rep. LaToya Greenwood
Filed: 3/1/2022
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4818
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4818 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 22.62 as follows:
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| 6 | | (415 ILCS 5/22.62 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 22.62. PFAS; incineration. |
| 8 | | (a) As used in this Section: |
| 9 | | "Incineration" includes, but is not limited to, |
| 10 | | burning, combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, or the use |
| 11 | | of an acid recovery furnace or oxidizer, ore roaster, |
| 12 | | cement kiln, lightweight aggregate kiln, industrial |
| 13 | | furnace, boiler, or process heater. "Incineration" does |
| 14 | | not include thermal oxidizers when they are operated as a |
| 15 | | pollution control or resource recovery device at a |
| 16 | | facility that is using PFAS-containing chemicals. |
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| 1 | | "Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances" or |
| 2 | | "PFAS" means the categories of fluorinated organic |
| 3 | | chemicals that contain at least one fully fluorinated |
| 4 | | carbon atom and that are listed as "per- and |
| 5 | | polyfluoroalkyl substances" in the USEPA's Toxic Release |
| 6 | | Inventory (TRI) rules, developed under Section 313 of the |
| 7 | | Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) |
| 8 | | and codified in 40 CFR 372.65. "Perfluoroalkyl and |
| 9 | | polyfluoroalkyl substances" or "PFAS" does not include |
| 10 | | liquid or gaseous fluorocarbon or chlorofluorocarbon |
| 11 | | products used chiefly as refrigerants. |
| 12 | | (b) No person shall dispose of any PFAS, including, but |
| 13 | | not limited to, aqueous film-forming foam that contains PFAS, |
| 14 | | by incineration. The Agency may propose, and the Board may |
| 15 | | adopt, any rules it deems necessary to carry out the |
| 16 | | provisions of this Section. |
| 17 | | (c) Nothing in this Section applies to (i) the combustion |
| 18 | | of landfill gas from the decomposition of waste that may |
| 19 | | contain PFAS at a permitted sanitary landfill or (ii) the |
| 20 | | combustion of landfill gas in a landfill gas recovery facility |
| 21 | | that is located at a sanitary landfill.
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| 22 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 23 | | becoming law.".
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