HB5304 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB5304

Introduced 01/25/06, by Rep. Rich Brauer

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 1110/6	from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106
30 ILCS 330/7	from Ch. 127, par. 657

Amends the Illinois Coal and Energy Development Bond Act. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to use certain funds for grants to the owner of a municipal generating station located in Sangamon County, Illinois and having at least 2 coal-fired generating units with accredited summer capacity greater than 100 megawatts each (now, the grants are to be awarded to the owner of a generating station located in Illinois and having at least 3 coal-fired generating units with accredited summer capacity greater than 500 megawatts each) (i) for the purposes specified in the Act and (ii) for payment of the owner's costs for designing, acquiring, constructing, installing, and testing facilities to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at one newly developed generating unit to allow that unit to meet the requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act while continuing to use coal mined in Illinois as its source of fuel. Amends the General Obligation Bond Act to make corresponding changes. Effective immediately.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

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

Section 10. The Illinois Coal and Energy Development Bond Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:

(20 ILCS 1110/6) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106)

Sec. 6. Expenditure of funds. The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Community Affairs is authorized to use $120,000,000 for the purposes specified in this Act. These funds shall be expended only for a grant to the owner of a municipal generating station located in Sangamon County, Illinois and having at least 2 three coal-fired generating units with accredited summer capacity greater than 100 500 megawatts each at such generating station as specifically authorized by this paragraph. Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Act, in considering the approval of projects to be funded under this Act, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Community Affairs shall give special consideration to projects which are designed to remove sulfur and other pollutants in the preparation and utilization of coal, and in the use and operation of electric utility generating plants and industrial facilities which utilize Illinois coal as their primary source of fuel. The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) is directed to enter into a contract with the owner of a municipal generating station located in Sangamon County, Illinois and having at least 2 three coal-fired generating units with accredited summer capability greater than 100 500 megawatts each at such generating station for a grant of $35,000,000 to be made by the State of Illinois to such owner to be used to pay costs of designing, acquiring, constructing, installing and testing facilities to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at one newly developed such generating unit to allow that unit to meet the requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (P.L. 101-549) while continuing to use coal mined in Illinois as its source of fuel.

(Source: P.A. 91-583, eff. 1-1-00; revised 12-6-03.)

Section 10. The General Obligation Bond Act is amended by changing Section 7 as follows:

(30 ILCS 330/7) (from Ch. 127, par. 657)

Sec. 7. Coal and Energy Development. The amount of $663,200,000 is authorized to be used by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (formerly Department of Commerce and Community Affairs) for coal and energy development purposes, pursuant to Sections 2, 3 and 3.1 of the Illinois Coal and Energy Development Bond Act, for the purposes specified in Section 8.1 of the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act, and for the purposes specified in Section 605-332 of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law Community Affairs of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Of this amount:

(a) $115,000,000 is for the specific purposes of acquisition, development, construction, reconstruction, improvement, financing, architectural and technical planning and installation of capital facilities consisting of buildings, structures, durable equipment, and land for the purpose of capital development of coal resources within the State and for the purposes specified in Section 8.1 of the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act;

(b) $35,000,000 is for the purposes specified in Section 8.1 of the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act and making a grant to the owner of a municipal generating station located in Sangamon County, Illinois and having at least 2 three coal-fired generating units with accredited summer capability greater than 100 500 megawatts each at a newly developed such generating station as provided in Section 6 of that Bond Act;

(c) $13,200,000 is for research, development and demonstration of forms of energy other than that derived from coal, either on or off State property; and

(d) $500,000,000 is for the purpose of providing financial assistance to new electric generating facilities as provided in Section 605-332 of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Community Affairs Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.

(Source: P.A. 92-13, eff. 6-22-01; revised 12-1-04.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.