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1    AN ACT concerning safety.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment Act.
 
6    Section 5. Findings and purpose. The General Assembly
7finds that:
8    (1) Recycling rates have been stagnant in Illinois for
9over 15 years. Many Illinois counties continue to fall short
10of the long-standing recycling goal of 25% established in 1988
11in the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act.
12    (2) In Illinois, more than 40% (over 7,000,000 tons per
13year) of municipal solid waste disposed of in landfills is
14comprised of packaging and paper products. Of this amount,
15nearly 80% consists of materials commonly collected in
16curbside recycling programs in areas of the State with mature
17recycling programs. The remainder includes packaging products
18such as polystyrene, #3-#7 plastics, plastic bags, flexible
19pouches, and other plastic films which are not currently
20acceptable in curbside recycling and for which limited
21drop-off recycling options exist.
22    (3) Consumers have limited sustainable purchasing choices.
23Illinois residents are generating packaging and paper waste

 

 

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1that is beyond their ability to reuse or recycle. Consumers
2are also given confusing, inconsistent messages through
3various means about which materials can be recycled, and thus
4inadvertently create contamination in recycling streams. There
5is widespread recycling fatigue and public skepticism about
6the efficacy of recycling in Illinois.
7    (4) Volatility in global recycling markets due to import
8restrictions such as the China National Sword policy, as well
9as impacts on supply chains and material demand due to the
10COVID-19 pandemic, have further challenged markets for
11recycled materials and destabilized the recycling system in
12the State.
13    (5) Significant and increasing quantities of plastics and
14packaging materials are seen in the environment, including in
15Illinois rivers, lakes, and streams. This pollution impacts
16the drinking water, wildlife, and recreational value of vital
17natural resources.
18    (6) Consumer brands are solely responsible for choices
19about the types and amounts of packaging used to package
20products. Units of local government and residents must,
21therefore, manage increasingly complex materials even though
22they have no input in designing or bringing these materials to
23market.
24    (7) Units of local government are expected to fund
25collection and processing costs for an increasing volume of
26packaging and paper products, and the cost of recycling

 

 

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1programs continues to rise with the complexity of the material
2stream that material recycling facilities are required to
3manage. Furthermore, many multifamily residences and rural
4areas of the State do not have access to adequate recycling
5opportunities.
6    (8) As materials continue to be landfilled and littered,
7lower-income and rural communities across the State bear
8environmental, health, and economic consequences.
9    (9) By failing to reuse or recycle packaging and paper
10products, Illinois loses economic value and green sector jobs.
11Establishing postconsumer recycled content requirements for
12rigid plastics will increase markets for this increasingly
13common packaging material, reduce demand for natural
14resources, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
15    (10) An assessment of current recycling and materials
16management practices in the State, including evaluation of
17collections, access to service, capacity, costs, gaps, and
18needs associated with diverting packaging and paper products
19from disposal, will provide needed information on current
20conditions and support identification of future needs to
21manage packaging and paper products in a sustainable,
22environmentally protective, and cost-effective manner.
23    (11) The Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment will provide
24data to facilitate future consideration of product stewardship
25legislation for packaging and paper products, including to
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1assign responsibilities.
 
2    Section 10. Definitions. In this Act:
3    "Advisory Council" means the Statewide Recycling Needs
4Assessment Advisory Council established under Section 20.
5    "Agency" means the Environmental Protection Agency.
6    "Compost" has the meaning given to that term in Section
73.150 of the Environmental Protection Act.
8    "Compostable material" means a material that is designed
9to contact, contain, or carry a product that can be collected
10for composting and that is capable of undergoing aerobic
11biological decomposition in a controlled composting system as
12demonstrated by meeting ASTM D6400, ASTM D6868, or any
13successor standards.
14    "Composting rate" means the percentage of discarded
15materials that are managed through composting. A composting
16rate is calculated by dividing the total weight of all
17packaging and paper products that are collected for composting
18by the total weight of all packaging and paper products sold,
19distributed, or served to consumers in the State during the
20study period.
21    "Covered entity" means a person or entity responsible for:
22        (1) a single or multifamily residence, either
23    individually or jointly through a unit of local
24    government;
25        (2) a public or private school for grades kindergarten

 

 

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1    through 12th grade;
2        (3) a State or local government facility; or
3        (4) a public space, including, but not limited to,
4    public spaces, such as parks, trails, transit stations,
5    and pedestrian areas for which the State or a unit of local
6    government is responsible.
7    "Curbside recycling" means the collection of recyclable
8materials from covered entities at the site where the
9recyclable materials are generated.
10    "Director" means the Director of the Agency.
11    "Drop-off recycling" means the collection of recyclable
12material from covered entities at one or more centralized
13sites.
14    "Environmental justice community" means environmental
15justice community as defined by the Illinois Solar for All
16Program, as that definition is updated from time to time by the
17Illinois Power Agency and the Administrator of the Illinois
18Solar for All Program.
19    "Hauler" means a person who collects recyclable or
20compostable materials and transports them to an MRF or compost
21facility, or to an intermediate facility from which materials
22are then transported to an MRF or compost facility.
23    "Material recovery facility" or "MRF" means a facility
24where recyclable materials collected via curbside recycling or
25drop-off recycling are consolidated and sorted for return to
26the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials.

 

 

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1    "Packaging" means a discrete material or category of
2material, regardless of recyclability. "Packaging" includes,
3but is not limited to, a material type, such as paper, plastic,
4glass, metal, or multi-material, that is:
5        (1) used to protect, contain, transport, or serve a
6    product;
7        (2) sold or supplied to consumers expressly for the
8    purpose of protecting, containing, transporting, or
9    serving products;
10        (3) attached to a product or its container for the
11    purpose of marketing or communicating information about
12    the product;
13        (4) supplied at the point of sale to facilitate the
14    delivery of the product; or
15        (5) supplied to or purchased by consumers expressly
16    for the purpose of facilitating food or beverage
17    consumption and ordinarily disposed of after a single use
18    or short-term use, whether or not it could be reused.
19    "Packaging" does not include:
20        (1) a medical device or packaging that is included
21    with products regulated:
22            (A) as a drug, medical device, or dietary
23        supplement by the United States Food and Drug
24        Administration under the Federal Food, Drug, and
25        Cosmetic Act;
26            (B) as a combination product as defined under 21

 

 

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1        CFR 3.2(e); or
2            (C) under the federal Dietary Supplement Health
3        and Education Act of 1994;
4        (2) animal biologics, including, but not limited to,
5    vaccines, bacterins, antisera, diagnostic kits, other
6    products of biological origin, and other packaging and
7    paper products regulated by the United States Department
8    of Agriculture under the federal Virus, Serum, Toxin Act;
9        (3) packaging regulated under the Federal Insecticide,
10    Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act or another applicable
11    federal law, rule, or regulation; and
12        (4) beverage containers subject to a returnable
13    container deposit, if applicable.
14    "Paper product" means:
15        (1) paper that can or has been printed on to create
16    flyers, brochures, booklets, catalogs, greeting cards,
17    telephone directories, newspapers, magazines; and
18        (2) paper used for copying, writing, or any other
19    general use.
20    "Paper product" does not include:
21        (1) paper that, by virtue of its anticipated use,
22    could become unsafe or unsanitary to recycle; or
23        (2) any form of bound book, including, but not limited
24    to, bound books for literary, textual, or reference
25    purposes.
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1firm, company, limited liability company, corporation,
2association, joint-stock company, trust, estate, political
3subdivision, State agency, any other legal entity, or their
4legal representative, agent, or assign.
5    "Postconsumer material" means packaging or paper products
6that have served their intended end use as consumer items.
7"Postconsumer material" does not include a by-product or waste
8material generated during or after the completion of a
9manufacturing or converting process.
10    "Postconsumer recycled content" means the portion of an
11item of packaging or paper product made from postconsumer
12material that has been recycled.
13    "Recovery rate" means the percentage of packaging and
14paper products recovered for recycling, reclamation, reuse, or
15composting. The recovery rate is calculated by dividing the
16total weight of all packaging and paper products collected for
17recycling, reclamation, reuse, or composting by the total
18weight of all packaging and paper products sold, distributed,
19or served to consumers in this State during the study period.
20    "Recycling" has the meaning given to "recycling,
21reclamation or reuse" in Section 3.380 of the Environmental
22Protection Act. "Recycling" does not include landfill disposal
23of packaging or paper products or the residue resulting from
24the processing of packaging or paper products at an MRF, use as
25alternative daily cover or any other beneficial use at a
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1by means of combustion, or final conversion of packaging and
2paper products or their components and by-products to a fuel.
3    "Recycling rate" means the percentage of packaging and
4paper products returned to the economic mainstream in the form
5of raw materials or products rather than being disposed of or
6discarded. The recycling rate is calculated by dividing the
7total weight of all packaging and paper products that are
8collected for recycling by the total weight of all packaging
9and paper products sold, distributed, or served to consumers
10in the State during the study period, not including the
11residue that is landfilled after processing by an MRF.
12    "Restaurant" means a business having sales of ready-to-eat
13food for immediate consumption comprising at least 51% of the
14total sales, excluding the sale of liquor.
15    "Retailer" means any person engaged in the business of
16making sales at retail that generate occupation or use tax
17revenue, including, but not limited to, sales made through an
18Internet transaction to deliver an item to a consumer in the
19State. "Retailer" includes a restaurant.
20    "Reusable" means:
21        (1) designed to be refilled or used repeatedly for its
22    original intended purpose and is returnable;
23        (2) safe for washing and sanitizing according to
24    applicable State food safety laws; and
25        (3) with the exception of ceramic products, capable of
26    being recycled at the end of use.

 

 

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1    "Reuse" means the return of packaging to the economic
2stream for use in the same kind of application intended for the
3original packaging without effectuating a change in the
4original composition of the package, the identity of the
5product, or the components thereof.
6    "Reuse" means the return of packaging to the economic
7stream for use in the same kind of application intended for the
8original packaging without effectuating a change in the
9original composition of the package, the identity of the
10product, or the components thereof.
11    "Rigid plastic" means packaging made of plastic that has a
12relatively inflexible finite shape or form and is capable of
13maintaining its shape while empty or while holding other
14products.
15    "Service provider" means a hauler, an MRF, or a composting
16facility.
17    "Single-use packaging or product" means a packaging or
18product that is supplied to or purchased by consumers
19expressly for the purpose of facilitating food or beverage
20consumption and that is ordinarily disposed of after a single
21use or short-term use, whether or not it could be reused.
22    "Study period" means the period represented by the data
23compiled and analyzed in the completion of the Statewide
24Recycling Needs Assessment. The study period shall be a
25minimum of a one-year calendar period not earlier than 2022
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1one year of data is used, data shall be presented on an annual
2basis.
 
3    Section 15. Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment Advisory
4Council.
5    (a) The Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment Advisory
6Council shall be appointed by the Agency. On or before January
71, 2024, the Director shall appoint members to the Advisory
8Council to provide advice and recommendations to the Agency in
9the drafting, amendment, and finalization of the Statewide
10Recycling Needs Assessment.
11    (b) In appointing members to the Advisory Council under
12subsection (a), the Director shall consider representatives
13from all geographic regions of the State, all sizes of
14communities in the State, all supply chain participants in the
15recycling system, and the racial and gender diversity of this
16State.
17    (c) Members of the Advisory Council shall include, but
18shall not be limited to, the following voting members:
19        (1) four individuals representing material recovery
20    facilities in the State, no more than 2 of whom shall
21    represent an MRF that accepts recyclables from Cook County
22    or the collar counties;
23        (2) four individuals representing haulers, one of whom
24    shall represent a statewide organization representing
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1    hauler, one of whom shall represent a privately owned
2    hauler, and one of whom shall operate a recycling drop-off
3    facility;
4        (3) one individual representing compost collection and
5    processing facilities;
6        (4) seven individuals representing rural and urban
7    units of local government, one of whom shall represent a
8    county with a population of less than 50,000, one of whom
9    shall represent a county with a population of more than
10    50,000 and less than 1,000,000, one of whom shall
11    represent a county with a population of more than
12    1,000,000, one of whom shall represent a municipality, one
13    of whom shall represent a municipal joint action agency,
14    one of whom shall represent a township, and one of whom
15    shall represent a municipality with a population of
16    1,000,000 or more;
17        (5) two individuals representing retailers, one of
18    whom shall represent a statewide association of retailers;
19        (6) two individuals representing environmental
20    organizations;
21        (7) one individual representing an environmental
22    justice advocacy organization;
23        (8) one individual representing a statewide
24    manufacturing association;
25        (9) one individual representing manufacturers of
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1    associations of such manufacturers;
2        (10) one individual representing manufacturers of
3    packaging and paper products utilizing virgin materials,
4    or one or more associations of suppliers of substrates of
5    packaging and paper products; and
6        (11) four individuals representing producers of
7    consumer products.
8    (d) An individual may be appointed to only one position on
9the Council. Appointments shall be for the period required to
10complete the needs assessment components of this Act.
11    (e) The duties of the Advisory Council are as follows:
12        (1) to provide guidance on the scope of work for the
13    Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment required under
14    Section 25;
15        (2) to assist in the provision of data required to
16    complete the needs assessment;
17        (3) to review and comment on the needs assessment
18    prior to completion;
19        (4) to evaluate and make recommendations, including
20    legislative recommendations, on how to effectively
21    establish and implement a producer responsibility program
22    in the State for packaging materials and paper products,
23    including recommendations regarding the responsibilities
24    of producers under a producer responsibility program; and
25        (5) on or before December 1, 2026, to prepare and
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1    General Assembly and the Governor, which shall include an
2    opportunity for a minority report.
3    (f) The Advisory Council:
4        (1) shall meet at the call of the Chair, except for the
5    first meeting, which shall be called by the Director;
6        (2) shall meet at least quarterly or as determined by
7    the Advisory Council Chair;
8        (3) shall elect a Chair from among Advisory Council
9    members by a simple majority vote;
10        (4) may adopt bylaws and a charter for the operation
11    of its business for the purposes of this Act; and
12        (5) shall be provided administrative support by the
13    Agency and Agency staff.
14    (g) The Agency may select and hire a third-party
15facilitator for the Advisory Council.
 
16    Section 20. Statewide needs assessment.
17    (a) The Agency shall issue a competitive solicitation in
18accordance with the Illinois Procurement Code to select a
19qualified consultant to conduct a statewide needs assessment
20to assess recycling needs in the State for packaging and paper
21products, including identifying current conditions and an
22evaluation of the capacity, costs, gaps, and needs associated
23with recycling and the diversion of packaging and paper
24products. The Agency shall select the consultant on or before
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1appropriation from the Agency's Solid Waste Management Fund or
2other appropriated funding.
3    (b) Packaging and paper products to be included in the
4needs assessment shall include, but may not be limited to, the
5following materials: gable-top cartons, paper cups, paper food
6packaging, mailers and envelopes, Kraft paper, corrugated
7cardboard, chipboard, coated groundwood, groundwood paper,
8coated paper board, paperboard boxes, pulpwood trays and
9take-out containers, polyethylene flexible bags, polyethylene
10wraps, polyethylene films, rigid plastics, glass bottles and
11jars, aluminum or steel aerosol cans, aluminum or steel cans,
12aluminum foil wrap, aluminum foil containers, other aluminum
13containers, and steel spiral wound containers.
14    (c) The needs assessment shall address, at a minimum, the
15following factors for covered entities:
16        (1) the quantity, by weight and type, of packaging
17    materials and paper products sold at retail, distributed,
18    or served to consumers in the State by material type and
19    format;
20        (2) current collection systems for packaging and paper
21    products in the State, including for reuse, recycling,
22    composting, and disposal;
23        (3) the processing capacity and infrastructure for
24    reusable, recyclable, and compostable packaging and paper
25    products collected in the State, including capacity and
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1    the State;
2        (4) current reuse, recycling, and composting rates for
3    packaging and paper products in the State by material
4    type;
5        (5) current postconsumer recycled content use by
6    material type for all packaging and paper products sold in
7    the State;
8        (6) current system-wide costs for the collection,
9    reuse, recycling, and composting of packaging and paper
10    products;
11        (7) current operational and capital funding
12    limitations impacting reuse, recycling, and composting
13    access and availability for packaging and paper products
14    throughout the State;
15        (8) collection and processing system needs to provide
16    access to curbside recycling services for all covered
17    entities within municipalities with a population of 1,500
18    or more based on the most recent United States Census,
19    with collection provided no less frequently than every 2
20    weeks, and at least one drop-off location for recyclable
21    materials within 15 miles of the municipal boundary for
22    municipalities with a population less than 1,500, with
23    needs identified on a county-by-county basis for all
24    counties in the State, and the estimated costs to meet the
25    access requirements;
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1    achieve a collective 50% recycling rate by December 31,
2    2035 across all packaging and paper products, including
3    investment into existing and future reuse, recycling, and
4    composting infrastructure for packaging and paper
5    products;
6        (10) existing federal and State statutory provisions
7    and public and private funding sources for the reduction,
8    reuse, recycling, and composting of packaging and paper
9    products;
10        (11) the market conditions and opportunities for
11    reusable, recyclable, and compostable packaging and paper
12    products in the State and regionally;
13        (12) multilingual public education needs for the
14    reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting of packaging
15    and paper products, including, but not limited to, a
16    scientific survey of current awareness among residents of
17    this State of proper end-of-life management for packaging
18    and paper products and the needs associated with the
19    reduction of contamination rates at MRFs in the State; and
20        (13) an assessment of environmental justice and
21    recycling equity in the State, including, but not limited
22    to:
23            (A) an evaluation of current access to and the
24        performance of curbside and drop-off recycling
25        programs in units of local government designated as
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1            (B) a comparison of the location of MRFs and
2        compost facilities in units of local government that
3        have been designated as environmental justice areas
4        with units of local government that are not so
5        designated.
6    (d) Persons with data or information required to complete
7the statewide needs assessment shall provide the Agency with
8such data or information in a timely fashion to assist in
9completing the statewide needs assessment.
10    (e) On or before December 31, 2025, the Agency shall
11provide the draft needs assessment to the Advisory Council.
12The Advisory Council shall provide written comments to the
13Agency within 60 days after receipt of the needs assessment.
14The Agency's consultant shall include an assessment of
15comments received in the revised draft needs assessment
16submitted to the Agency and shall provide a summary and an
17analysis of any issues raised by the Advisory Council and
18significant changes suggested by any such comments, a
19statement of the reasons why any significant changes were not
20incorporated into the results of the study, and a description
21of any changes made to the results of the needs assessment as a
22result of such comments. The needs assessment shall be
23finalized by the Agency on or before May 1, 2026.
 
24    Section 25. Severability. The provisions of this Act shall
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1of this Act or the applicability thereof to any person or
2circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act
3and the application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
 
4    Section 30. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
5changing Section 22.15 as follows:
 
6    (415 ILCS 5/22.15)
7    Sec. 22.15. Solid Waste Management Fund; fees.
8    (a) There is hereby created within the State Treasury a
9special fund to be known as the Solid Waste Management Fund, to
10be constituted from the fees collected by the State pursuant
11to this Section, from repayments of loans made from the Fund
12for solid waste projects, from registration fees collected
13pursuant to the Consumer Electronics Recycling Act, and from
14amounts transferred into the Fund pursuant to Public Act
15100-433. Moneys received by either the Agency or the
16Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity in repayment
17of loans made pursuant to the Illinois Solid Waste Management
18Act shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.
19    (b) The Agency shall assess and collect a fee in the amount
20set forth herein from the owner or operator of each sanitary
21landfill permitted or required to be permitted by the Agency
22to dispose of solid waste if the sanitary landfill is located
23off the site where such waste was produced and if such sanitary
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1than the generator of such waste. The Agency shall deposit all
2fees collected into the Solid Waste Management Fund. If a site
3is contiguous to one or more landfills owned or operated by the
4same person, the volumes permanently disposed of by each
5landfill shall be combined for purposes of determining the fee
6under this subsection. Beginning on July 1, 2018, and on the
7first day of each month thereafter during fiscal years 2019
8through 2023, the State Comptroller shall direct and State
9Treasurer shall transfer an amount equal to 1/12 of $5,000,000
10per fiscal year from the Solid Waste Management Fund to the
11General Revenue Fund.
12        (1) If more than 150,000 cubic yards of non-hazardous
13    solid waste is permanently disposed of at a site in a
14    calendar year, the owner or operator shall either pay a
15    fee of 95 cents per cubic yard or, alternatively, the
16    owner or operator may weigh the quantity of the solid
17    waste permanently disposed of with a device for which
18    certification has been obtained under the Weights and
19    Measures Act and pay a fee of $2.00 per ton of solid waste
20    permanently disposed of. In no case shall the fee
21    collected or paid by the owner or operator under this
22    paragraph exceed $1.55 per cubic yard or $3.27 per ton.
23        (2) If more than 100,000 cubic yards but not more than
24    150,000 cubic yards of non-hazardous waste is permanently
25    disposed of at a site in a calendar year, the owner or
26    operator shall pay a fee of $52,630.

 

 

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1        (3) If more than 50,000 cubic yards but not more than
2    100,000 cubic yards of non-hazardous solid waste is
3    permanently disposed of at a site in a calendar year, the
4    owner or operator shall pay a fee of $23,790.
5        (4) If more than 10,000 cubic yards but not more than
6    50,000 cubic yards of non-hazardous solid waste is
7    permanently disposed of at a site in a calendar year, the
8    owner or operator shall pay a fee of $7,260.
9        (5) If not more than 10,000 cubic yards of
10    non-hazardous solid waste is permanently disposed of at a
11    site in a calendar year, the owner or operator shall pay a
12    fee of $1050.
13    (c) (Blank).
14    (d) The Agency shall establish rules relating to the
15collection of the fees authorized by this Section. Such rules
16shall include, but not be limited to:
17        (1) necessary records identifying the quantities of
18    solid waste received or disposed;
19        (2) the form and submission of reports to accompany
20    the payment of fees to the Agency;
21        (3) the time and manner of payment of fees to the
22    Agency, which payments shall not be more often than
23    quarterly; and
24        (4) procedures setting forth criteria establishing
25    when an owner or operator may measure by weight or volume
26    during any given quarter or other fee payment period.

 

 

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1    (e) Pursuant to appropriation, all monies in the Solid
2Waste Management Fund shall be used by the Agency for the
3purposes set forth in this Section and in the Illinois Solid
4Waste Management Act, including for the costs of fee
5collection and administration, and for the administration of
6the Consumer Electronics Recycling Act, and the Drug Take-Back
7Act, and the Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment.
8    (f) The Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements
9and to promulgate such rules as are necessary to carry out its
10duties under this Section and the Illinois Solid Waste
11Management Act.
12    (g) On the first day of January, April, July, and October
13of each year, beginning on July 1, 1996, the State Comptroller
14and Treasurer shall transfer $500,000 from the Solid Waste
15Management Fund to the Hazardous Waste Fund. Moneys
16transferred under this subsection (g) shall be used only for
17the purposes set forth in item (1) of subsection (d) of Section
1822.2.
19    (h) The Agency is authorized to provide financial
20assistance to units of local government for the performance of
21inspecting, investigating, and enforcement activities pursuant
22to subsection (r) of Section 4 Section 4(r) at nonhazardous
23solid waste disposal sites.
24    (i) The Agency is authorized to conduct household waste
25collection and disposal programs.
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1Solid Waste Disposal Act, in which a solid waste disposal
2facility is located may establish a fee, tax, or surcharge
3with regard to the permanent disposal of solid waste. All
4fees, taxes, and surcharges collected under this subsection
5shall be utilized for solid waste management purposes,
6including long-term monitoring and maintenance of landfills,
7planning, implementation, inspection, enforcement and other
8activities consistent with the Solid Waste Management Act and
9the Local Solid Waste Disposal Act, or for any other
10environment-related purpose, including, but not limited to, an
11environment-related public works project, but not for the
12construction of a new pollution control facility other than a
13household hazardous waste facility. However, the total fee,
14tax or surcharge imposed by all units of local government
15under this subsection (j) upon the solid waste disposal
16facility shall not exceed:
17        (1) 60¢ per cubic yard if more than 150,000 cubic
18    yards of non-hazardous solid waste is permanently disposed
19    of at the site in a calendar year, unless the owner or
20    operator weighs the quantity of the solid waste received
21    with a device for which certification has been obtained
22    under the Weights and Measures Act, in which case the fee
23    shall not exceed $1.27 per ton of solid waste permanently
24    disposed of.
25        (2) $33,350 if more than 100,000 cubic yards, but not
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1    permanently disposed of at the site in a calendar year.
2        (3) $15,500 if more than 50,000 cubic yards, but not
3    more than 100,000 cubic yards, of non-hazardous solid
4    waste is permanently disposed of at the site in a calendar
5    year.
6        (4) $4,650 if more than 10,000 cubic yards, but not
7    more than 50,000 cubic yards, of non-hazardous solid waste
8    is permanently disposed of at the site in a calendar year.
9        (5) $650 if not more than 10,000 cubic yards of
10    non-hazardous solid waste is permanently disposed of at
11    the site in a calendar year.
12    The corporate authorities of the unit of local government
13may use proceeds from the fee, tax, or surcharge to reimburse a
14highway commissioner whose road district lies wholly or
15partially within the corporate limits of the unit of local
16government for expenses incurred in the removal of
17nonhazardous, nonfluid municipal waste that has been dumped on
18public property in violation of a State law or local
19ordinance.
20    For the disposal of solid waste from general construction
21or demolition debris recovery facilities as defined in
22subsection (a-1) of Section 3.160, the total fee, tax, or
23surcharge imposed by all units of local government under this
24subsection (j) upon the solid waste disposal facility shall
25not exceed 50% of the applicable amount set forth above. A unit
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1Disposal Act, in which a general construction or demolition
2debris recovery facility is located may establish a fee, tax,
3or surcharge on the general construction or demolition debris
4recovery facility with regard to the permanent disposal of
5solid waste by the general construction or demolition debris
6recovery facility at a solid waste disposal facility, provided
7that such fee, tax, or surcharge shall not exceed 50% of the
8applicable amount set forth above, based on the total amount
9of solid waste transported from the general construction or
10demolition debris recovery facility for disposal at solid
11waste disposal facilities, and the unit of local government
12and fee shall be subject to all other requirements of this
13subsection (j).
14    A county or Municipal Joint Action Agency that imposes a
15fee, tax, or surcharge under this subsection may use the
16proceeds thereof to reimburse a municipality that lies wholly
17or partially within its boundaries for expenses incurred in
18the removal of nonhazardous, nonfluid municipal waste that has
19been dumped on public property in violation of a State law or
20local ordinance.
21    If the fees are to be used to conduct a local sanitary
22landfill inspection or enforcement program, the unit of local
23government must enter into a written delegation agreement with
24the Agency pursuant to subsection (r) of Section 4. The unit of
25local government and the Agency shall enter into such a
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1establishment of such fees. At least annually, the Agency
2shall conduct an audit of the expenditures made by units of
3local government from the funds granted by the Agency to the
4units of local government for purposes of local sanitary
5landfill inspection and enforcement programs, to ensure that
6the funds have been expended for the prescribed purposes under
7the grant.
8    The fees, taxes or surcharges collected under this
9subsection (j) shall be placed by the unit of local government
10in a separate fund, and the interest received on the moneys in
11the fund shall be credited to the fund. The monies in the fund
12may be accumulated over a period of years to be expended in
13accordance with this subsection.
14    A unit of local government, as defined in the Local Solid
15Waste Disposal Act, shall prepare and post on its website, in
16April of each year, a report that details spending plans for
17monies collected in accordance with this subsection. The
18report will at a minimum include the following:
19        (1) The total monies collected pursuant to this
20    subsection.
21        (2) The most current balance of monies collected
22    pursuant to this subsection.
23        (3) An itemized accounting of all monies expended for
24    the previous year pursuant to this subsection.
25        (4) An estimation of monies to be collected for the
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1        (5) A narrative detailing the general direction and
2    scope of future expenditures for one, 2 and 3 years.
3    The exemptions granted under Sections 22.16 and 22.16a,
4and under subsection (k) of this Section, shall be applicable
5to any fee, tax or surcharge imposed under this subsection
6(j); except that the fee, tax or surcharge authorized to be
7imposed under this subsection (j) may be made applicable by a
8unit of local government to the permanent disposal of solid
9waste after December 31, 1986, under any contract lawfully
10executed before June 1, 1986 under which more than 150,000
11cubic yards (or 50,000 tons) of solid waste is to be
12permanently disposed of, even though the waste is exempt from
13the fee imposed by the State under subsection (b) of this
14Section pursuant to an exemption granted under Section 22.16.
15    (k) In accordance with the findings and purposes of the
16Illinois Solid Waste Management Act, beginning January 1, 1989
17the fee under subsection (b) and the fee, tax or surcharge
18under subsection (j) shall not apply to:
19        (1) waste which is hazardous waste;
20        (2) waste which is pollution control waste;
21        (3) waste from recycling, reclamation or reuse
22    processes which have been approved by the Agency as being
23    designed to remove any contaminant from wastes so as to
24    render such wastes reusable, provided that the process
25    renders at least 50% of the waste reusable; the exemption
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1    shall not apply to general construction or demolition
2    debris recovery facilities as defined in subsection (a-1)
3    of Section 3.160;
4        (4) non-hazardous solid waste that is received at a
5    sanitary landfill and composted or recycled through a
6    process permitted by the Agency; or
7        (5) any landfill which is permitted by the Agency to
8    receive only demolition or construction debris or
9    landscape waste.
10(Source: P.A. 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-636, eff. 6-10-20;
11102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 102-310, eff. 8-6-21; 102-444, eff.
128-20-21; 102-699, eff. 4-19-22; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22;
13102-1055, eff. 6-10-22; revised 8-25-22.)
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15becoming law.