Full Text of SB2963 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning safety.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
| 6 | | (415 ILCS 20/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7053)
| 7 | | Sec. 3. State agency materials recycling program.
| 8 | | (a) All State agencies responsible for the maintenance of | 9 | | public lands in
the State shall, to the maximum extent | 10 | | feasible, use compost materials in all land maintenance
| 11 | | activities which are to be paid with public funds.
| 12 | | (a-5) All State agencies responsible for the maintenance of | 13 | | public lands in the State shall review its procurement | 14 | | specifications and policies to determine (1) if incorporating | 15 | | compost materials will help reduce stormwater run-off and | 16 | | increase infiltration of moisture in land maintenance | 17 | | activities and (2) the current recycled content usage and | 18 | | potential for additional recycled content usage by the Agency | 19 | | in land maintenance activities and report to the General | 20 | | Assembly by December 15, 2015. | 21 | | (b) The Department of Central Management Services, in | 22 | | coordination
with the Department of Commerce and Economic | 23 | | Opportunity, shall implement
waste reduction programs, |
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| 1 | | including source separation and collection, for
office | 2 | | wastepaper, corrugated containers, newsprint and mixed paper, | 3 | | in all
State buildings as appropriate and feasible. Such waste | 4 | | reduction programs
shall be designed to achieve waste | 5 | | reductions of at least 25% of
all such waste by December 31, | 6 | | 1995, and at least 50% of all such waste by
December 31, 2000. | 7 | | Any source separation and collection program
shall include, at | 8 | | a minimum, procedures for collecting and storing
recyclable | 9 | | materials, bins or containers for storing materials, and
| 10 | | contractual or other arrangements with buyers of recyclable | 11 | | materials. If
market conditions so warrant, the Department of | 12 | | Central Management
Services, in coordination with the | 13 | | Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, may modify | 14 | | programs developed pursuant to this Section.
| 15 | | The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (now | 16 | | Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) shall conduct | 17 | | waste
categorization studies of all State facilities for | 18 | | calendar years 1991,
1995 and 2000. Such studies shall be | 19 | | designed to assist the Department of
Central Management | 20 | | Services to achieve the waste reduction goals
established in | 21 | | this subsection.
| 22 | | (c) Each State agency shall, upon consultation with the | 23 | | Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity,
periodically | 24 | | review its procurement procedures and specifications related
| 25 | | to the purchase of products or supplies. Such procedures and
| 26 | | specifications shall be modified as necessary to require the |
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| 1 | | procuring
agency to seek out products and supplies that contain | 2 | | recycled materials,
and to ensure that purchased products or | 3 | | supplies are reusable, durable or
made from recycled materials | 4 | | whenever economically and practically
feasible. In choosing | 5 | | among products or supplies that contain recycled
material, | 6 | | consideration shall be given to products and supplies with the
| 7 | | highest recycled material content that is consistent with the | 8 | | effective and
efficient use of the product or supply.
| 9 | | (d) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the | 10 | | Department of
Central Management Services shall procure | 11 | | recycled paper and paper products
as follows:
| 12 | | (1) Beginning July 1, 1989, at least 10% of the
total | 13 | | dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by
the | 14 | | Department of Central Management Services shall be
| 15 | | recycled paper and paper products.
| 16 | | (2) Beginning July 1, 1992, at least 25% of the
total | 17 | | dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by
the | 18 | | Department of Central Management Services shall be
| 19 | | recycled paper and paper products.
| 20 | | (3) Beginning July 1, 1996, at least
40% of the total | 21 | | dollar value of paper and paper products
purchased by the | 22 | | Department of Central Management Services shall be
| 23 | | recycled paper and paper products.
| 24 | | (4) Beginning July 1, 2000, at least 50% of the total | 25 | | dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by the | 26 | | Department of Central Management
Services shall be |
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| 1 | | recycled paper and paper products.
| 2 | | (e) Paper and paper products purchased from private vendors
| 3 | | pursuant to printing contracts are not considered paper | 4 | | products for the
purposes of subsection (d). However, the | 5 | | Department of Central Management
Services shall report to the | 6 | | General Assembly on an annual
basis the total dollar value of | 7 | | printing contracts awarded to private
sector vendors that | 8 | | included the use of recycled paper.
| 9 | | (f)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible, | 10 | | the recycled paper
and paper products referred to in | 11 | | subsection (d) shall contain postconsumer
or recovered | 12 | | paper materials as specified by paper category in this | 13 | | subsection:
| 14 | | (i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper | 15 | | shall contain at
least 50% recovered paper material. | 16 | | Such recovered paper material, until
July 1, 1994, | 17 | | shall consist of at least 20% deinked stock or | 18 | | postconsumer
material; and beginning July 1, 1994, | 19 | | shall consist of at least 25%
deinked stock or | 20 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, | 21 | | shall
consist of at least 30% deinked stock or | 22 | | postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1998, | 23 | | shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock or
| 24 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000, | 25 | | shall consist of at
least 50% deinked stock or | 26 | | postconsumer material.
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| 1 | | (ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994, | 2 | | shall contain at
least 25% postconsumer material; and | 3 | | beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 30% | 4 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, | 5 | | shall
contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and | 6 | | beginning July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 40% | 7 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,
2000, | 8 | | shall contain at least 45% postconsumer material.
| 9 | | (iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994, | 10 | | shall contain at least
40% postconsumer material; and | 11 | | beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at
least 50% | 12 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, | 13 | | shall contain
at least 60% postconsumer material; and | 14 | | beginning July 1, 1998, shall
contain at least 70% | 15 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000,
| 16 | | shall contain at least 80% postconsumer material.
| 17 | | (iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1, | 18 | | 1994, shall
contain at least 35% postconsumer | 19 | | material; and beginning July 1, 1994,
shall contain at | 20 | | least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,
| 21 | | 1996, shall contain at least 45% postconsumer | 22 | | material; and beginning July
1, 1998, shall contain at | 23 | | least 50% postconsumer material; and beginning
July 1, | 24 | | 2000, shall contain at least 55% postconsumer | 25 | | material.
| 26 | | (v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall |
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| 1 | | contain at least
80% postconsumer material; and | 2 | | beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at
least 85% | 3 | | postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, | 4 | | shall contain
at least 90% postconsumer material; and | 5 | | beginning July 1, 1998, shall
contain at least 95% | 6 | | postconsumer material.
| 7 | | (2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer | 8 | | material" includes:
| 9 | | (i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes from | 10 | | retail stores, office
buildings, homes, and so forth, | 11 | | after the waste has passed through its end
usage as a | 12 | | consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old | 13 | | newspapers,
mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and | 14 | | used cordage; and
| 15 | | (ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes | 16 | | that are diverted or
separated from the municipal solid | 17 | | waste stream.
| 18 | | (3) For the purposes of this Section, "recovered paper | 19 | | material" includes:
| 20 | | (i) postconsumer material;
| 21 | | (ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated | 22 | | after completion of the
papermaking process (that is, | 23 | | those manufacturing operations up to and
including the | 24 | | cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into | 25 | | smaller
rolls or rough sheets), including envelope | 26 | | cuttings, bindery trimmings, and
other paper and |
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| 1 | | paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting,
| 2 | | forming, and other converting operations, or from bag, | 3 | | box and carton
manufacturing, and butt rolls, mill | 4 | | wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and
| 5 | | (iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete | 6 | | inventories of
paper and paperboard manufacturers, | 7 | | merchants, wholesalers, dealers,
printers, converters, | 8 | | or others.
| 9 | | (g) The Department of Central Management Services may
adopt | 10 | | regulations to carry out the provisions and
purposes of this | 11 | | Section.
| 12 | | (h) Every State agency shall, in its procurement documents, | 13 | | specify
that, whenever economically and practically feasible, | 14 | | a product to be
procured must consist, wholly or in part, of | 15 | | recycled materials, or be
recyclable or reusable in whole or in | 16 | | part. When applicable, if state
guidelines are not already | 17 | | prescribed, State agencies shall follow USEPA
guidelines for | 18 | | federal procurement.
| 19 | | (i) All State agencies shall cooperate with the Department | 20 | | of Central
Management Services in carrying out this Section. | 21 | | The Department of
Central Management Services may enter into | 22 | | cooperative purchasing
agreements with other governmental | 23 | | units in order to obtain volume
discounts, or for other reasons | 24 | | in accordance with the Governmental Joint
Purchasing Act, or in | 25 | | accordance with the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act
if | 26 | | governmental units of other states or the federal government |
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| 1 | | are involved.
| 2 | | (j) The Department of Central Management Services shall | 3 | | submit an annual
report to the General Assembly concerning its | 4 | | implementation of the
State's collection and recycled paper | 5 | | procurement programs. This report
shall include a description | 6 | | of the actions that the Department of Central
Management | 7 | | Services has taken in the previous fiscal year to implement | 8 | | this
Section. This report shall be submitted on or before | 9 | | November 1 of each year.
| 10 | | (k) The Department of Central Management Services, in
| 11 | | cooperation with all other appropriate departments and | 12 | | agencies of the
State, shall institute whenever economically | 13 | | and practically feasible the
use of re-refined motor oil in all | 14 | | State-owned motor vehicles and the use
of remanufactured and | 15 | | retread tires whenever such use is practical,
beginning no | 16 | | later than July 1, 1992.
| 17 | | (l) (Blank).
| 18 | | (m) The Department of Central Management Services, in | 19 | | coordination with
the Department of Commerce and Community | 20 | | Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity), | 21 | | has implemented shall implement an aluminum
can recycling | 22 | | program in all State buildings within 270 days of the effective
| 23 | | date of this amendatory Act of 1997. The program provides shall | 24 | | provide for (1) the
collection and storage of used aluminum | 25 | | cans in bins or other appropriate
containers made reasonably | 26 | | available to occupants and visitors of State
buildings and (2) |
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| 1 | | the sale of used aluminum cans to buyers of recyclable
| 2 | | materials.
| 3 | | Proceeds from the sale of used aluminum cans shall be | 4 | | deposited into I-CYCLE
accounts maintained in the State Surplus | 5 | | Property Revolving Fund and, subject
to appropriation, shall be | 6 | | used by the Department of Central Management
Services and any | 7 | | other State agency to offset the costs of implementing the
| 8 | | aluminum can recycling program under this Section.
| 9 | | All State agencies having an aluminum can recycling program | 10 | | in place shall
continue with their current plan. If a State | 11 | | agency has an existing recycling
program in place, proceeds | 12 | | from the aluminum can recycling program may be
retained and | 13 | | distributed pursuant to that program, otherwise all revenue
| 14 | | resulting from these programs shall be forwarded to Central | 15 | | Management
Services, I-CYCLE for placement into the | 16 | | appropriate account within the State
Surplus Property | 17 | | Revolving Fund, minus any operating costs associated with the
| 18 | | program.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 99-34, eff. 7-14-15.)
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