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Sen. Christopher Belt
Filed: 3/18/2022
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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. TRI-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 perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl |
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| 1 | | substances or chemicals containing perfluoroalkyl or |
| 2 | | polyfluoroalkyl substances. |
| 3 | | "Toxic Release Inventory Perfluoroalkyl and |
| 4 | | Polyfluoroalkyl Substances" or "TRI-PFAS" means the |
| 5 | | chemicals on the list of perfluoroalkyl and |
| 6 | | polyfluoroalkyl substances set forth in the USEPA's Toxic |
| 7 | | Release Inventory rules, developed under Section 313 of |
| 8 | | the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know |
| 9 | | Act (EPCRA) and codified in 40 CFR 372.65, excluding |
| 10 | | liquid or gaseous fluorocarbon or chlorofluorocarbon |
| 11 | | products used chiefly as refrigerants. |
| 12 | | (b) No person shall dispose of any TRI-PFAS by |
| 13 | | incineration, including, but not limited to, aqueous |
| 14 | | film-forming foam that contains TRI-PFAS. The Agency may |
| 15 | | propose, and the Board may adopt, any rules it deems necessary |
| 16 | | to carry out the 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 any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances at a |
| 20 | | permitted sanitary landfill or (ii) the combustion of landfill |
| 21 | | gas in a landfill gas recovery facility that is located at a |
| 22 | | sanitary landfill.
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| 23 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 24 | | becoming law.".
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