HB1445 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB1445

Introduced , by Rep. Elaine Nekritz

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

415 ILCS 5/3.335	was 415 ILCS 5/3.27
415 ILCS 5/3.465	was 415 ILCS 5/3.44
415 ILCS 5/3.535	was 415 ILCS 5/3.53
415 ILCS 5/3.560 new

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that "pollution control waste", "sludge", and "waste" do not include exceptional quality biosolids. Defines "exceptional quality biosolids".

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning safety.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by changing Sections 3.335, 3.465, and 3.535 and by adding Section 3.560 as follows:

(415 ILCS 5/3.335) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.27)

Sec. 3.335. Pollution control waste. "Pollution control waste" means any liquid, solid, semi-solid or gaseous waste generated as a direct or indirect result of the removal of contaminants from the air, water or land, and which pose a present or potential threat to human health or to the environment or with inherent properties which make the disposal of such waste in a landfill difficult to manage by normal means. "Pollution control waste" includes but is not limited to water and wastewater treatment plant sludges, baghouse dusts, landfill waste, scrubber sludges and chemical spill cleanings. "Pollution control waste" does not include exceptional quality biosolids.

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

(415 ILCS 5/3.465) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.44)

Sec. 3.465. Sludge. "Sludge" means any solid, semi-solid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or any other such waste having similar characteristics and effects. "Sludge" does not include exceptional quality biosolids.

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

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

Sec. 3.535. Waste. "Waste" means any garbage, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, exceptional quality biosolids, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or coal combustion by-products as defined in Section 3.135, or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as now or hereafter amended, or source, special nuclear, or by-product materials as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 921) or any solid or dissolved material from any facility subject to the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-87) or the rules and regulations thereunder or any law or rule or regulation adopted by the State of Illinois pursuant thereto.

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

(415 ILCS 5/3.560 new)

Sec. 3.560. Exceptional quality biosolids. "Exceptional quality biosolids" means solids produced by advanced treatment of wastewater treatment plant sludge through stabilization and other processes to meet the following requirements of 40 C.F.R. Part 503: the pollutant concentrations in Table 3 of Section 503.13(b), the Class A pathogen requirements in Section 503.32, and one of the vector attraction requirements in Section 503.33(b)(1)-(8).