96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3302

 

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
70 ILCS 1707/15

    Amends the Regional Planning Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Regional Planning Act is amended by changing
5 Section 15 as follows:
 
6     (70 ILCS 1707/15)
7     Sec. 15. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning;
8 structure.
9     (a) The The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is
10 established as a political subdivision, body politic, and
11 municipal corporation. The Board shall be responsible for
12 developing and adopting a funding and implementation strategy
13 for an integrated land use and transportation planning process
14 for the northeastern Illinois region.
15     (b) (Blank.)
16     (c) The Board shall consist of 15 voting members as
17 follows:
18         (1) One member from DuPage County appointed
19     cooperatively by the mayors of DuPage County and the chief
20     elected county official of DuPage County.
21         (2) One member representing both Kane and Kendall
22     Counties appointed cooperatively by the mayors of Kane
23     County and Kendall County and the chief elected county

 

 

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1     officials of Kane County and Kendall County.
2         (3) One member from Lake County appointed
3     cooperatively by the mayors of Lake County and the chief
4     elected county official of Lake County.
5         (4) One member from McHenry County appointed
6     cooperatively by the mayors of McHenry County and the chief
7     elected county official of McHenry County.
8         (5) One member from Will County appointed
9     cooperatively by the mayors of Will County and the chief
10     elected county official of Will County.
11         (6) Five members from the City of Chicago appointed by
12     the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
13         (7) One member from that portion of Cook County outside
14     of the City of Chicago appointed by the President of the
15     Cook County Board of Commissioners.
16         (8) Four members from that portion of Cook County
17     outside of the City of Chicago appointed, with the consent
18     of the President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners,
19     as follows:
20             (i) One by the mayors representing those
21         communities in Cook County that are outside of the City
22         of Chicago and north of Devon Avenue.
23             (ii) One by the mayors representing those
24         communities in Cook County that are outside of the City
25         of Chicago, south of Devon Avenue, and north of
26         Interstate 55, and in addition the Village of Summit.

 

 

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1             (iii) One by the mayors representing those
2         communities in Cook County that are outside of the City
3         of Chicago, south of Interstate 55, and west of
4         Interstate 57, excluding the communities of Summit,
5         Dixmoor, Posen, Robbins, Midlothian, Oak Forest, and
6         Tinley Park.
7             (iv) One by the mayors representing those
8         communities in Cook County that are outside of the City
9         of Chicago and east of Interstate 57, and, in addition,
10         the communities of Dixmoor, Posen, Robbins,
11         Midlothian, Oak Forest, and Tinley Park.
12 The terms of the members initially appointed to the Board shall
13 begin within 60 days after this Act takes effect.
14     (d) The CMAP Board may appoint non-voting members of the
15 Board.
16     (e) (1) The CMAP Board shall create a Wastewater Committee
17 with the responsibility of recommending directly to the
18 Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) the
19 appropriateness of proposed requests for modifications and
20 amendments to the established boundaries of wastewater
21 facility planning areas, requests for the creation of new
22 wastewater facility planning areas, requests for the
23 elimination of existing wastewater facility planning areas,
24 requests for new or expanded sewage treatment facilities, or
25 any other amendments to the State of Illinois Water Quality
26 Management Plan required under the federal Clean Water Act. The

 

 

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1 Chairmanship of the Wastewater Committee shall rotate every 24
2 months between the individuals described in subsections
3 (e)(2)(iv) and (e)(2)(v) with the individual identified in
4 subsection (e)(2)(v) serving as chairman for the initial
5 24-month period commencing on the effective date of this
6 amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly.
7         (2) The Wastewater Committee shall consist of 5 members
8     of the CMAP Board designated as follows:
9             (i) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall be
10         one of the CMAP Board members designated in subsection
11         (c)(1) through (c)(5).
12             (ii) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall
13         be one of the CMAP Board members designated in
14         subsection (c)(6).
15             (iii) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall
16         be one of the CMAP Board members designated in
17         subsection (c)(7) or (c)(8).
18             (iv) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall
19         be a person appointed by the President of the
20         Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater
21         Chicago (and who does not need to serve on the CMAP
22         Board).
23             (v) One member of the Wastewater Committee shall be
24         a person appointed by the President of the largest
25         statewide association of wastewater agencies (and who
26         does not need to serve on the CMAP Board).

 

 

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1         (3) Terms of the members of the Wastewater Committee
2     shall be consistent with those identified in Section 25,
3     except that the term of the member of the Wastewater
4     Committee appointed by the President of the Metropolitan
5     Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago shall expire
6     on July 1, 2009, and the term of the member of the
7     Wastewater Committee appointed by the President of the
8     largest statewide association of wastewater agencies shall
9     expire on July 1, 2009.
10     (f) With the exception of matters considered and
11 recommended by the Wastewater Committee directly to the IEPA,
12 which shall require only a concurrence of a simple majority of
13 the Wastewater Committee members in office, concurrence of
14 four-fifths of the Board members in office is necessary for the
15 Board to take any action.
16 (Source: P.A. 94-510, eff. 8-9-05; 95-677, eff. 10-11-07.)