(415 ILCS 130/25)
Sec. 25.
Findings and recommendations to the Governor.
(a) Upon completion of the public hearings conducted pursuant to subsection
(c) of Section 20, the House Committee and Senate Committee shall
each prepare
a report containing its findings and recommendations concerning the proposed
memorandum of understanding or State Implementation Plan and alternate
strategies. The reports shall also
contain findings and recommendations concerning the relative net costs and net
benefits which might result from implementation of the emission reduction
strategies identified in the memorandum of understanding or State
Implementation Plan, contrasted with
those that might result from implementation of the alternate strategies. The
recommendations may include suggested modifications to the terms or
applicability of the memorandum of understanding or State Implementation
Plan.
(b) Upon completion of the reports, the House Committee and Senate Committee
shall forward the reports to the Speaker of the House and the Senate President,
respectively.
(c) Upon receipt of the reports submitted pursuant to subsection (b) of this
Section, the Speaker of the House and the Senate President shall forward the
reports to the Governor for his or her further consideration or action that may
be
warranted.
(d) In the absence of a resolution or other act of the Illinois General
Assembly approving a State Implementation Plan for Illinois relating to ozone,
the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency shall not submit
to the United States Environmental Protection Agency a State Implementation
Plan relating to ozone attainment that would impose emission controls in
Illinois more stringent than necessary for Illinois to demonstrate attainment
with a national ambient air quality standard for ozone, unless it can be shown
(i) that man-made emissions from man-made sources located within Illinois
contribute significantly to nonattainment or inability to maintain an ozone
standard in another nonattaining state and (ii) that feasible emission
reductions in the other nonattaining state, absent the more stringent emission
controls in Illinois,
would not permit that state to demonstrate attainment and maintenance of the
national ambient air quality standard for ozone.
(Source: P.A. 89-566, eff. 7-26-96; 90-500, eff. 8-19-97.)
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