94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB5304

 

Introduced 01/25/06, by Rep. Rich Brauer

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 1110/6   from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106
30 ILCS 330/7   from Ch. 127, par. 657

    Amends the Illinois Coal and Energy Development Bond Act. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to use certain funds for grants to the owner of a municipal generating station located in Sangamon County, Illinois and having at least 2 coal-fired generating units with accredited summer capacity greater than 100 megawatts each (now, the grants are to be awarded to the owner of a generating station located in Illinois and having at least 3 coal-fired generating units with accredited summer capacity greater than 500 megawatts each) (i) for the purposes specified in the Act and (ii) for payment of the owner's costs for designing, acquiring, constructing, installing, and testing facilities to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at one newly developed generating unit to allow that unit to meet the requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act while continuing to use coal mined in Illinois as its source of fuel. Amends the General Obligation Bond Act to make corresponding changes. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 10. The Illinois Coal and Energy Development Bond
5 Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 1110/6)  (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106)
7     Sec. 6. Expenditure of funds. The Department of Commerce
8 and Economic Opportunity Community Affairs is authorized to use
9 $120,000,000 for the purposes specified in this Act. These
10 funds shall be expended only for a grant to the owner of a
11 municipal generating station located in Sangamon County,
12 Illinois and having at least 2 three coal-fired generating
13 units with accredited summer capacity greater than 100 500
14 megawatts each at such generating station as specifically
15 authorized by this paragraph. Notwithstanding any of the other
16 provisions of this Act, in considering the approval of projects
17 to be funded under this Act, the Department of Commerce and
18 Economic Opportunity Community Affairs shall give special
19 consideration to projects which are designed to remove sulfur
20 and other pollutants in the preparation and utilization of
21 coal, and in the use and operation of electric utility
22 generating plants and industrial facilities which utilize
23 Illinois coal as their primary source of fuel. The Department
24 of Commerce and Community Affairs (now Department of Commerce
25 and Economic Opportunity) is directed to enter into a contract
26 with the owner of a municipal generating station located in
27 Sangamon County, Illinois and having at least 2 three
28 coal-fired generating units with accredited summer capability
29 greater than 100 500 megawatts each at such generating station
30 for a grant of $35,000,000 to be made by the State of Illinois
31 to such owner to be used to pay costs of designing, acquiring,
32 constructing, installing and testing facilities to reduce

 

 

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1 sulfur dioxide emissions at one newly developed such generating
2 unit to allow that unit to meet the requirements of the Federal
3 Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (P.L. 101-549) while
4 continuing to use coal mined in Illinois as its source of fuel.
5 (Source: P.A. 91-583, eff. 1-1-00; revised 12-6-03.)
 
6     Section 10. The General Obligation Bond Act is amended by
7 changing Section 7 as follows:
 
8     (30 ILCS 330/7)  (from Ch. 127, par. 657)
9     Sec. 7. Coal and Energy Development. The amount of
10 $663,200,000 is authorized to be used by the Department of
11 Commerce and Economic Opportunity (formerly Department of
12 Commerce and Community Affairs) for coal and energy development
13 purposes, pursuant to Sections 2, 3 and 3.1 of the Illinois
14 Coal and Energy Development Bond Act, for the purposes
15 specified in Section 8.1 of the Energy Conservation and Coal
16 Development Act, and for the purposes specified in Section
17 605-332 of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
18 Law Community Affairs of the Civil Administrative Code of
19 Illinois. Of this amount:
20     (a) $115,000,000 is for the specific purposes of
21 acquisition, development, construction, reconstruction,
22 improvement, financing, architectural and technical planning
23 and installation of capital facilities consisting of
24 buildings, structures, durable equipment, and land for the
25 purpose of capital development of coal resources within the
26 State and for the purposes specified in Section 8.1 of the
27 Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act;
28     (b) $35,000,000 is for the purposes specified in Section
29 8.1 of the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act and
30 making a grant to the owner of a municipal generating station
31 located in Sangamon County, Illinois and having at least 2
32 three coal-fired generating units with accredited summer
33 capability greater than 100 500 megawatts each at a newly
34 developed such generating station as provided in Section 6 of

 

 

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1 that Bond Act;
2     (c) $13,200,000 is for research, development and
3 demonstration of forms of energy other than that derived from
4 coal, either on or off State property; and
5     (d) $500,000,000 is for the purpose of providing financial
6 assistance to new electric generating facilities as provided in
7 Section 605-332 of the Department of Commerce and Economic
8 Opportunity Community Affairs Law of the Civil Administrative
9 Code of Illinois.
10 (Source: P.A. 92-13, eff. 6-22-01; revised 12-1-04.)
 
11     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12 becoming law.