97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB3251

 

Introduced 2/1/2012, by Sen. Mike Jacobs

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
415 ILCS 5/28.7 new

    Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency, in certain rulemakings before the Illinois Pollution Control Board, to include a statement of reasons that (i) assesses the differences between the Agency's proposed rule and other state and federal laws and (ii) analyzes the need for and reasonableness of each difference. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

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
5adding Section 28.7 as follows:
 
6    (415 ILCS 5/28.7 new)
7    Sec. 28.7. Agency rulemaking; statement of reasons. For any
8rulemaking proposal submitted to the Board by the Agency under
9Section 28 of this Act to adopt or amend standards for air
10quality, solid waste or hazardous waste, or water quality, the
11statement of reasons must include:
12    (1) an assessment of any differences between the proposed
13rule and:
14        (A) existing federal standards adopted under the
15    federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq., the federal
16    Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Resource
17    Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), or
18    any successor Act, as applicable;
19        (B) similar standards in states bordering Illinois;
20    and
21        (C) similar standards in states within the
22    Environmental Protection Agency Region 5; and
23    (2) a specific analysis of the need for and reasonableness

 

 

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1of each difference.
 
2    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3becoming law.