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Sen. David Koehler
Filed: 4/25/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1561
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1561 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act is |
| 5 | | amended by adding Section 9.5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (415 ILCS 15/9.5 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 9.5. Regulation of certain pollution control |
| 8 | | facilities. No provision of this Act shall be construed to |
| 9 | | allow any county with a population of less than 2,000,000 |
| 10 | | residents to adopt an ordinance or resolution, except an |
| 11 | | ordinance or resolution adopting a county plan in accordance |
| 12 | | with Sections 4 and 5 of this Act, or implementing a county |
| 13 | | plan in accordance with Section 7 of this Act, that requires |
| 14 | | the issuance of a permit, or that imposes regulations upon the |
| 15 | | operations of a municipal solid waste landfill unit, sanitary |
| 16 | | landfill, storage site, transfer station, or waste disposal |
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| 1 | | site, as long as the facility obtains appropriate permits from |
| 2 | | the Agency in accordance with Section 39 of the Environmental |
| 3 | | Protection Act. Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 100th |
| 4 | | General Assembly shall be construed to diminish or impair any |
| 5 | | authority conferred upon a county under the Environmental |
| 6 | | Protection Act, including, but not limited to, subsection (r) |
| 7 | | of Section 4 and Section 39.2 of the Environmental Protection |
| 8 | | Act. |
| 9 | | Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 100th General |
| 10 | | Assembly shall be construed to limit the authority of a county |
| 11 | | to prepare or adopt a county plan pursuant to and in accordance |
| 12 | | with Sections 4 and 5 of this Act, to implement a county plan |
| 13 | | in accordance with Section 7 of this Act, or to relieve a |
| 14 | | facility proposed for siting approval from demonstrating |
| 15 | | consistency with that plan as required by criterion (viii) of |
| 16 | | subsection (a) of Section 39.2 of the Environmental Protection |
| 17 | | Act. |
| 18 | | For the purposes of this Section, "municipal solid waste |
| 19 | | landfill unit", "sanitary landfill", "storage site", "transfer |
| 20 | | station", and "waste disposal site" have the meanings provided |
| 21 | | to those terms in the Environmental Protection Act.
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| 22 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 23 | | becoming law.".
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