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90_HB1420
415 ILCS 5/22.2d new
Amends the Environmental Protection Act to require
current owners or operators of sanitary landfills to disclose
to the Environmental Protection Agency the names of all
persons and entities who currently own, operate, and manage
the landfill and who previously owned, operated, or managed
the landfill since January 1, 1948. Sets forth penalties.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Environmental Protection Act by
2 adding Section 22.2d.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended
6 by adding Section 22.2d as follows:
7 (415 ILCS 5/22.2d new)
8 Sec. 22.2d. Disclosure of landfill owners and operators.
9 Within 180 days after the effective date of this amendatory
10 Act of 1997, a current owner or operator of a sanitary
11 landfill shall provide to the Agency in a format prescribed
12 by the Agency a complete list of persons and entities who
13 owned, operated, or managed the landfill at any time between
14 January 1, 1948 and the date of submission of the disclosure
15 form. The list of persons and entities shall include owners
16 who created the landfill operation under a blind trust. The
17 owner and operator of a landfill who fail to timely submit a
18 disclosure form for the landfill pursuant to this Section
19 shall each be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $3,000
20 for each day of violation. The Agency shall make copies of
21 the disclosure form available to the public on request.