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1 | AN ACT concerning safety.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 22.38 as follows:
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6 | (415 ILCS 5/22.38)
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7 | Sec. 22.38. Facilities accepting exclusively general | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | construction or
demolition debris
for transfer, storage, or | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | treatment.
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10 | (a) Facilities accepting exclusively general construction | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | or demolition
debris for
transfer, storage, or treatment shall | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | be subject to local zoning, ordinance,
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land use | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | requirements.
Those facilities shall be located in accordance | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | with local zoning requirements
or, in the absence of local | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | zoning requirements, shall be located so that no
part of the | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | facility boundary is closer than 1,320 feet from the nearest
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17 | property zoned for primarily residential use.
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18 | (b) An owner or operator of a facility accepting | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | exclusively general
construction or demolition debris for | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | transfer, storage, or treatment shall:
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21 | (1) within 48 hours of receipt of the general | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | construction or demolition
debris at the facility, sort the | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | general construction or demolition debris to
separate the
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1 | recyclable general construction or demolition debris from | ||||||
2 | non-recyclable
general construction or demolition debris | ||||||
3 | to be disposed of or discarded;
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4 | (2) transport off site for disposal all non-recyclable | ||||||
5 | general
construction or demolition debris in
accordance | ||||||
6 | with all applicable federal, State, and local requirements | ||||||
7 | within 72
hours of its receipt at the facility;
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8 | (3) limit the percentage of incoming non-recyclable | ||||||
9 | general construction
or demolition debris to 25% or
less of | ||||||
10 | the total incoming general construction or demolition | ||||||
11 | debris,
as calculated on a daily basis;
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12 | (4) transport all non-putrescible recyclable general | ||||||
13 | construction or
demolition debris
for recycling or | ||||||
14 | disposal within 6 months of its receipt at the facility;
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15 | (5) transport all putrescible or combustible | ||||||
16 | recyclable general
construction or demolition debris
for | ||||||
17 | recycling or disposal within 45 days of its receipt at
the | ||||||
18 | facility;
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19 | (6) employ tagging and recordkeeping procedures to (i) | ||||||
20 | demonstrate
compliance
with this Section and (ii) identify | ||||||
21 | the source and transporter of material
accepted by the | ||||||
22 | facility;
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23 | (7) control odor, noise, combustion of materials, | ||||||
24 | disease vectors, dust,
and litter;
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25 | (8) control, manage, and dispose of any storm water | ||||||
26 | runoff and leachate
generated at the facility in accordance |
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1 | with applicable federal, State, and
local requirements;
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2 | (9) control access to the facility;
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3 | (10) comply with all applicable federal, State, or | ||||||
4 | local requirements for
the handling, storage, | ||||||
5 | transportation, or disposal of asbestos-containing
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6 | material or other material accepted at the
facility that is | ||||||
7 | not general construction or demolition debris; and
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8 | (11) submit to the Agency at least 30 days prior to the | ||||||
9 | initial acceptance
of general construction or demolition | ||||||
10 | debris at the facility, on forms provided
by the Agency, | ||||||
11 | the following information:
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12 | (A) the name, address, and telephone number of both | ||||||
13 | the facility owner
and operator;
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14 | (B) the street address and location of the | ||||||
15 | facility;
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16 | (C) a description of facility operations;
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17 | (D) a description of the tagging and recordkeeping | ||||||
18 | procedures the
facility will employ to (i) demonstrate | ||||||
19 | compliance with this Section and (ii)
identify the | ||||||
20 | source and transporter of any material accepted by the | ||||||
21 | facility;
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22 | (E) the name and location of the disposal site to | ||||||
23 | be used for the
transportation and disposal of | ||||||
24 | non-recyclable materials accepted at the
facility;
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25 | (F) the name and location of an individual, | ||||||
26 | facility, or business to
which recyclable materials |
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1 | will be transported; and
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2 | (G) other information as specified on the form | ||||||
3 | provided by the Agency.
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4 | When any of the information contained or processes | ||||||
5 | described in the initial
notification form submitted to the | ||||||
6 | Agency changes, the owner and operator shall
submit an | ||||||
7 | updated form within 14 days of the change.
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8 | (c) For purposes of this Section, the term "recyclable | ||||||
9 | general
construction or demolition debris" means general | ||||||
10 | construction or demolition
debris that has been rendered | ||||||
11 | reusable and is reused or that would otherwise
be disposed of | ||||||
12 | or discarded but is collected, separated, or processed and
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13 | returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw | ||||||
14 | materials or products.
"Recyclable general construction or | ||||||
15 | demolition debris" does not include general
construction or | ||||||
16 | demolition debris processed for use as fuel, incinerated,
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17 | burned, buried, or otherwise used as fill material but does | ||||||
18 | include clean wood that is segregated from general construction | ||||||
19 | or demolition debris and that is processed for use as a fuel .
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20 | (d) For purposes of this Section, "treatment" means | ||||||
21 | processing
designed to alter the physical nature of the general | ||||||
22 | construction or
demolition debris, including but not limited to | ||||||
23 | size reduction, crushing,
grinding, or
homogenization, but | ||||||
24 | does not include processing designed to change the chemical
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25 | nature of the general construction or demolition debris.
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26 | (Source: P.A. 90-475, eff. 8-17-97.)
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1 | Section 10. The Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is | ||||||
2 | amended by changing Section 2.1 as follows:
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3 | (415 ILCS 20/2.1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7052.1)
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4 | Sec. 2.1. Definitions. When used in this Act, unless the | ||||||
5 | context
otherwise requires, the following terms have the | ||||||
6 | meanings ascribed to them
in this Section:
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7 | "Department", when a particular entity is not specified, | ||||||
8 | means (i) in
the case of a function to be performed on or after | ||||||
9 | July 1, 1995 (the effective
date of the Department of Natural | ||||||
10 | Resources Act), the Department of Commerce
and Community | ||||||
11 | Affairs
(now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity), | ||||||
12 | as successor to the former Department of Energy and
Natural | ||||||
13 | Resources under the Department of Natural Resources Act; or | ||||||
14 | (ii) in
the case of a function required to be performed before | ||||||
15 | July 1, 1995, the
former Illinois Department of Energy and | ||||||
16 | Natural Resources.
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17 | "Deinked stock" means paper that has been processed to | ||||||
18 | remove inks,
clays, coatings, binders and other contaminants.
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19 | "End product" means only those items that are designed to | ||||||
20 | be used until
disposal; items designed to be used in production | ||||||
21 | of a subsequent item are
excluded.
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22 | "High grade printing and writing papers" includes offset | ||||||
23 | printing paper,
duplicator paper, writing paper (stationery), | ||||||
24 | office paper, note
pads, xerographic paper, envelopes, form |
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1 | bond including computer
paper and carbonless forms, book | ||||||
2 | papers, bond papers, ledger paper, book
stock and cotton fiber | ||||||
3 | papers.
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4 | "Paper and paper products" means high grade printing and | ||||||
5 | writing
papers, tissue products, newsprint, unbleached | ||||||
6 | packaging and recycled
paperboard.
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7 | "Postconsumer material" means only those products | ||||||
8 | generated by a business
or consumer which have served their | ||||||
9 | intended end uses, and which have been
separated or diverted | ||||||
10 | from solid waste; wastes generated during production
of an end | ||||||
11 | product are excluded.
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12 | "Recovered paper material" means paper waste generated | ||||||
13 | after the completion
of the papermaking process, such as | ||||||
14 | postconsumer materials, envelope cuttings,
bindery trimmings, | ||||||
15 | printing waste, cutting and other converting waste, butt
rolls, | ||||||
16 | and mill wrappers, obsolete inventories, and rejected unused | ||||||
17 | stock.
"Recovered paper material", however, does not include | ||||||
18 | fibrous waste
generated during the manufacturing process such | ||||||
19 | as fibers recovered from
waste water or trimmings of paper | ||||||
20 | machine rolls (mill broke), or fibrous
byproducts of | ||||||
21 | harvesting, extraction or woodcutting processes, or forest
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22 | residues such as bark.
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23 | "Recycled paperboard" includes recycled paperboard | ||||||
24 | products, folding
cartons and pad backing.
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25 | "Recycling" means the process by which solid waste is | ||||||
26 | collected,
separated and processed for reuse as either a raw |
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1 | material or a product
which itself is subject to recycling,
but | ||||||
2 | does not include the combustion
of waste for energy recovery or | ||||||
3 | volume reduction. "Recycling", however, does include the | ||||||
4 | combustion of wood or biomass fuel for energy recovery.
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5 | "Tissue products" includes toilet tissue, paper towels, | ||||||
6 | paper napkins,
facial tissue, paper doilies, industrial | ||||||
7 | wipers, paper bags and brown papers.
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8 | "Unbleached packaging" includes corrugated and fiber | ||||||
9 | boxes.
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10 | "USEPA Guidelines for federal procurement" means all | ||||||
11 | minimum recycled
content standards recommended by the U.S. | ||||||
12 | Environmental Protection Agency.
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13 | (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
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14 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
15 | becoming law.
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