SB2182 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2182

Introduced 10/20/2015, by Sen. Chapin Rose

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

415 ILCS 5/22.60 new

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that the owner and operator of any landfill that is located above an aquifer designated as a sole source aquifer by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shall, upon request, make available to the requestor copies of manifests of all waste, other than municipal solid waste, received at the landfill in the 2 years before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. Provides that these manifests shall be made available within 30 days of the request, and the owner or operator may post the manifests to a website to satisfy this purpose. Provides that beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, the owner and operator of any landfill that is located above an aquifer designated as a sole source aquifer by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shall publish quarterly to a public website manifests of all waste, other than municipal solid waste, received at the landfill. Provides that any manifest published to the public website shall remain on the public website for a minimum of 2 years. Provides that the owner and operator shall publish to its website all permit applications, requests or applications for modification permits, and all well sampling data from upgradient and downgradient monitoring wells near any landfill that is located above an aquifer designated as a sole source aquifer by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

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 22.60 as follows:

(415 ILCS 5/22.60 new)

Sec. 22.60. Sole source aquifer landfills. The owner and operator of any landfill that is located above an aquifer designated as a sole source aquifer by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shall, upon request, make available to the requestor copies of manifests of all waste, other than municipal solid waste, received at the landfill in the 2 years before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly. These manifests shall be made available within 30 days of the request, and the owner or operator may post the manifests to a website to satisfy this purpose. Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, the owner and operator of any landfill that is located above an aquifer designated as a sole source aquifer by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shall publish quarterly to a public website manifests of all waste, other than municipal solid waste, received at the landfill. Any manifest published to the public website shall remain on the public website for a minimum of 2 years. The owner and operator shall publish to its website all permit applications, requests or applications for modification permits, and all well sampling data from upgradient and downgradient monitoring wells near any landfill that is located above an aquifer designated as a sole source aquifer by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

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