Full Text of HB0641 95th General Assembly
HB0641 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB0641
Introduced 2/6/2007, by Rep. Rich Brauer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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20 ILCS 1110/6 |
from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106 |
30 ILCS 330/7 |
from Ch. 127, par. 657 |
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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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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Coal and Energy Development Bond | 5 |
| Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 1110/6) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 4106)
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| Sec. 6. Expenditure of funds.
The Department of Commerce | 8 |
| and Economic Opportunity is
authorized to use $120,000,000 for | 9 |
| the purposes specified in this Act. These
funds shall be | 10 |
| expended only for a grant to
the owner of a municipal | 11 |
| generating station located in Sangamon County, Illinois and | 12 |
| having at least
2
three coal-fired generating units with | 13 |
| accredited summer capacity greater
than 100
500 megawatts each | 14 |
| at such generating station as specifically
authorized by this | 15 |
| paragraph. Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of
this | 16 |
| Act, in considering the approval of projects to be funded under | 17 |
| this Act,
the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity | 18 |
| shall give
special consideration to projects which are designed | 19 |
| to remove sulfur and
other pollutants in the preparation and | 20 |
| utilization of coal, and in the use
and operation of electric | 21 |
| utility generating plants and industrial
facilities which | 22 |
| utilize Illinois coal as their primary source of fuel.
The | 23 |
| Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (now Department of |
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| Commerce and Economic Opportunity) is directed to
enter into a | 2 |
| contract with the owner of a municipal generating station | 3 |
| located in Sangamon County,
Illinois and having at least 2
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| three coal-fired generating units with
accredited summer | 5 |
| capability greater than 100
500 megawatts each at such
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| generating station for a grant of $35,000,000 to be made by the | 7 |
| State of
Illinois to such owner to be used to pay costs of | 8 |
| designing, acquiring,
constructing, installing and testing | 9 |
| facilities to reduce sulfur dioxide
emissions at one newly | 10 |
| developed
such generating unit to allow that unit to meet the
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| requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 | 12 |
| (P.L. 101-549)
while continuing to use coal mined in Illinois | 13 |
| as its source of fuel.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
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| Section 10. The General Obligation Bond Act is amended by | 16 |
| changing Section 7 as follows:
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| (30 ILCS 330/7) (from Ch. 127, par. 657)
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| Sec. 7. Coal and Energy Development. The amount of | 19 |
| $663,200,000 is
authorized to be used by the Department of | 20 |
| Commerce and Economic Opportunity (formerly Department of | 21 |
| Commerce and Community Affairs) for
coal and energy development | 22 |
| purposes, pursuant to Sections 2, 3 and 3.1 of the
Illinois | 23 |
| Coal and Energy Development Bond Act, for the purposes
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| specified
in Section 8.1 of the Energy Conservation and Coal |
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| Development Act, and for
the purposes specified in Section | 2 |
| 605-332 of the Department of Commerce and
Economic Opportunity | 3 |
| Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Of this
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| amount:
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| (a) $115,000,000 is
for the specific purposes of | 6 |
| acquisition,
development, construction, reconstruction, | 7 |
| improvement, financing,
architectural and technical planning | 8 |
| and installation of capital facilities
consisting of | 9 |
| buildings, structures, durable equipment, and land for the
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| purpose of capital development of coal resources within the | 11 |
| State and for the
purposes specified in Section 8.1 of the | 12 |
| Energy Conservation and Coal
Development Act;
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| (b) $35,000,000 is for the purposes specified in Section | 14 |
| 8.1 of the
Energy
Conservation and Coal Development Act and | 15 |
| making a grant to the owner of a municipal
generating station
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| located in Sangamon County, Illinois and having at least 2
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| three coal-fired generating units
with accredited summer | 18 |
| capability greater than 100
500 megawatts each at a newly | 19 |
| developed
such
generating station as provided in Section 6 of | 20 |
| that Bond Act;
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| (c) $13,200,000 is for research, development and | 22 |
| demonstration
of forms of energy
other than that derived from | 23 |
| coal, either on or off State property; and
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| (d) $500,000,000 is for the purpose of providing financial | 25 |
| assistance to
new
electric generating facilities as provided in | 26 |
| Section 605-332 of the Department
of Commerce and Economic |
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| Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of
Illinois.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 4 |
| becoming law.
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