HB5283 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5283

Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Joyce Mason

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

415 ILCS 5/22.40c new

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides gas collection and control system requirements for municipal solid waste landfills, including requirements for gas to be collected from each area in which solid waste has been in place for at least one year, for gas to be drawn toward the gas control devices, for a gas collection and control system to be installed within 12 months of reaching certain thresholds, for gas collection and control design plans to provide for alternative preliminary measures, and for the methane destruction efficiency of flared systems to reach 99%.

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 adding Section 22.40c as follows:

(415 ILCS 5/22.40c new)

Sec. 22.40c. Gas Collection and Control System Requirements. Each owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill that meets 40 CFR 60.33c and relevant federal regulatory requirements to install a gas collection and control system must fulfill the following requirements:

(1) The owner or operator must, in the case of an active municipal solid waste landfill, operate the gas collection and control system so that gas is collected from each area, cell, or group of cells in the municipal solid waste landfill in which solid waste has been in place for one year or more.

(2) The owner or operator must estimate when the landfill will reach the thresholds identified in 40 CFR 60.33c and relevant federal regulatory requirements requiring installation of a gas collection and control system, install a gas collection and control system within 12 months after that estimated date, and operate the gas collection and control system in accordance with 40 CFR 60.34f.

(3) The gas collection and control design plan must provide for whether other measures to control gas, including horizontal collectors, connections to the leachate control system, and electric systems that will eventually connect to control devices, the vacuum system, and other gas collection and control system elements, can be installed before the full gas collection and control system is required.

(4) The gas collection and control system, if it uses a flare, must achieve a methane destruction efficiency of at least 99% by weight.

(5) The gas collection system must be designed and operated to draw all the gas toward the gas control device or devices.