Full Text of HB1362 99th General Assembly
HB1362 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
| | 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 HB1362 Introduced 2/4/2015, by Rep. Laura Fine SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 415 ILCS 20/3 | from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7053 |
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Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Provides that, all State agencies responsible for the maintenance of public lands in the State shall review its procurement specifications and policies to determine (1) if incorporating compost materials will help reduce stormwater run-off and increase infiltration of moisture in land maintenance activities and (2) the current recycled content usage and potential for additional recycled content usage by the Agency in land maintenance activities and report to the General Assembly by December 15, 2015. Effective immediately.
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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, the | 10 | | recycled paper
and paper products referred to in subsection | 11 | | (d) shall contain postconsumer
or recovered paper | 12 | | 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 | | shall implement an aluminum
can recycling program in all State | 22 | | buildings within 270 days of the effective
date of this | 23 | | amendatory Act of 1997. The program shall provide for (1) the
| 24 | | collection and storage of used aluminum cans in bins or other | 25 | | appropriate
containers made reasonably available to occupants | 26 | | and visitors of State
buildings and (2) the sale of used |
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| 1 | | aluminum cans to buyers of recyclable
materials.
| 2 | | Proceeds from the sale of used aluminum cans shall be | 3 | | deposited into I-CYCLE
accounts maintained in the State Surplus | 4 | | Property Revolving Fund and, subject
to appropriation, shall be | 5 | | used by the Department of Central Management
Services and any | 6 | | other State agency to offset the costs of implementing the
| 7 | | aluminum can recycling program under this Section.
| 8 | | All State agencies having an aluminum can recycling program | 9 | | in place shall
continue with their current plan. If a State | 10 | | agency has an existing recycling
program in place, proceeds | 11 | | from the aluminum can recycling program may be
retained and | 12 | | distributed pursuant to that program, otherwise all revenue
| 13 | | resulting from these programs shall be forwarded to Central | 14 | | Management
Services, I-CYCLE for placement into the | 15 | | appropriate account within the State
Surplus Property | 16 | | Revolving Fund, minus any operating costs associated with the
| 17 | | program.
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 96-77, eff. 7-24-09.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 | | becoming law.
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