99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2810
 
Introduced 2/17/2016, by Sen. William R. Haine
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
  
415 ILCS 5/3.477 new
415 ILCS 5/3.535  was 415 ILCS 5/3.53

     Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that "waste" does not include steel slag products. Defines "steel slag products". Effective immediately.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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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 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended  by 
5changing Section 3.535 and  by adding Section 3.477 as follows:
 
6    (415 ILCS 5/3.477 new)
7    Sec. 3.477. Steel slag products. "Steel slag products" 
8means steel slag or mill scale that is a product of the 
9steelmaking process; provided, that such steel slag or mill 
10scale is sold and distributed in the stream of commerce for 
11consumption, use, or further processing into another desired 
12commodity and is managed as an item of commercial value in a 
13controlled manner and not as a discarded material.
 



14    (415 ILCS 5/3.535)  (was 415 ILCS 5/3.53)



15    Sec. 3.535. Waste. 
"Waste" means any garbage, sludge from 
16a waste treatment plant,
water supply treatment plant, or air 
17pollution control facility or other
discarded material, 
18including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained
gaseous 
19material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and

20agricultural operations, and from community activities, but 
21does not
include solid or dissolved material in domestic 
22sewage, or solid or
dissolved materials in irrigation return 
 
 
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1flows, or steel slag products as defined in Section 3.477, or 
2coal combustion
by-products as defined in Section 3.135, or 
3industrial
discharges which are point sources subject to 
4permits under Section
402 of the Federal Water Pollution 
5Control Act, as now or hereafter
amended, or source, special 
6nuclear, or by-product materials as
defined by the Atomic 
7Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 921)
or any solid or 
8dissolved material from any facility subject to
the Federal 
9Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L.
95-87) 
10or the rules and regulations thereunder or any law or rule or

11regulation adopted by the State of Illinois pursuant thereto.

12(Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)

 
 
13    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
14becoming law.