Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 5/7/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 49

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 49, AS AMENDED, by
3 replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
4 following:
 
5     "Section 5. The Illinois Coal and Energy Development Bond
6 Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
 
7     (20 ILCS 1110/6)  (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106)
8     Sec. 6. The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
9 is authorized to use general obligation bond funds for the
10 purposes of issuing grants in accordance with this Act and the
11 General Obligation Bond Act. The Department of Commerce and
12 Economic Opportunity is authorized to use $120,000,000 for the
13 purposes specified in this Act. These funds shall be expended
14 only for a grant to the owner of a generating station located
15 in Illinois and having at least three coal-fired generating
16 units with accredited summer capacity greater than 500

 

 

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1 megawatts each at such generating station as specifically
2 authorized by this paragraph. Notwithstanding any of the other
3 provisions of this Act, in considering the approval of projects
4 to be funded under this Act, the Department of Commerce and
5 Economic Opportunity shall give special consideration to
6 projects which are designed to remove sulfur and other
7 pollutants in the preparation and utilization of coal, and in
8 the use and operation of electric utility generating plants and
9 industrial facilities which utilize Illinois coal as their
10 primary source of fuel. The Department of Commerce and
11 Community Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic
12 Opportunity) is directed to enter into a contract with the
13 owner of a generating station located in Illinois and having at
14 least three coal-fired generating units with accredited summer
15 capability greater than 500 megawatts each at such generating
16 station for a grant of $35,000,000 to be made by the State of
17 Illinois to such owner to be used to pay costs of designing,
18 acquiring, constructing, installing and testing facilities to
19 reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at one such generating unit to
20 allow that unit to meet the requirements of the Federal Clean
21 Air Act Amendments of 1990 (P.L. 101-549) while continuing to
22 use coal mined in Illinois as its source of fuel.
23 (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
 
24     Section 10. The General Obligation Bond Act is amended by
25 changing Section 7 as follows:
 

 

 

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1     (30 ILCS 330/7)  (from Ch. 127, par. 657)
2     Sec. 7. Coal and Energy Development. The amount of
3 $698,200,000 is authorized to be used by the Department of
4 Commerce and Economic Opportunity (formerly Department of
5 Commerce and Community Affairs) for coal and energy development
6 purposes, pursuant to Sections 2, 3 and 3.1 of the Illinois
7 Coal and Energy Development Bond Act, for the purposes
8 specified in Section 8.1 of the Energy Conservation and Coal
9 Development Act, for the purposes specified in Section 605-332
10 of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of
11 the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, and for the purpose
12 of facility cost reports prepared pursuant to Sections 1-58
13 1-56 or 1-75(d)(4) of the Illinois Power Agency Act and for the
14 purpose of development costs pursuant to Section 8.1 of the
15 Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act. Of this amount:
16     (a) $115,000,000 is for the specific purposes of
17 acquisition, development, construction, reconstruction,
18 improvement, financing, architectural and technical planning
19 and installation of capital facilities consisting of
20 buildings, structures, durable equipment, and land for the
21 purpose of capital development of coal resources within the
22 State and for the purposes specified in Section 8.1 of the
23 Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act;
24     (b) $35,000,000 is for the purposes specified in Section
25 8.1 of the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act and

 

 

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1 making grants a grant to generating stations and coal
2 gasification facilities within the State of Illinois and to the
3 owner of a generating station located in Illinois and having at
4 least three coal-fired generating units with accredited summer
5 capability greater than 500 megawatts each at such generating
6 station as provided in Section 6 of that Bond Act;
7     (c) $13,200,000 is for research, development and
8 demonstration of forms of energy other than that derived from
9 coal, either on or off State property;
10     (d) $500,000,000 is for the purpose of providing financial
11 assistance to new electric generating facilities as provided in
12 Section 605-332 of the Department of Commerce and Economic
13 Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois;
14 and
15     (e) $35,000,000 is for the purpose of facility cost reports
16 prepared for not more than one facility pursuant to Section
17 1-75(d)(4) of the Illinois Power Agency Act and not more than
18 one facility pursuant to Section 1-58 1-56 of the Illinois
19 Power Agency Act and for the purpose of up to $6,000,000 of
20 development costs pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Energy
21 Conservation and Coal Development Act.
22 (Source: P.A. 95-1026, eff. 1-12-09; 96-781, eff. 8-28-09;
23 revised 10-13-09.)
 
24     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.".