Bill Status of HB 1707   104th General Assembly

Short Description:  EPA-LANDFILL GAS MGMT

House Sponsors
Rep. Joyce Mason-Sonya M. Harper, Anne Stava-Murray and Ann M. Williams

Last Action  View All Actions

DateChamber Action
  4/11/2025HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
415 ILCS 5/22.40c new

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides gas collection and control system requirements for municipal solid waste landfills, including requirements for gas to be collected from each area in which solid waste has been in place for at least one year, for gas to be drawn toward the gas control devices, for a gas collection and control system to be installed within 12 months of reaching certain thresholds, for gas collection and control design plans to provide for alternative preliminary measures, and for the methane destruction efficiency of flared systems to reach 99%.

House Committee Amendment No. 1
Deletes reference to:
415 ILCS 5/22.40c new
Adds reference to:
415 ILCS 5/3.121 new
415 ILCS 5/3.122 new
415 ILCS 5/3.196 new
415 ILCS 5/3.197
415 ILCS 5/3.198 new
415 ILCS 5/3.330was 415 ILCS 5/3.32
415 ILCS 5/22.15
415 ILCS 5/22.22from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022.22
415 ILCS 15/6from Ch. 85, par. 5956
415 ILCS 20/11 new

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines the terms "anaerobic digester", "anaerobic digestion", and "food". Deletes provisions that exempted certain composting facilities from regulation as a pollution control facility. Creates exemptions from the definition of "pollution control facility" for (i) the portion of a site or facility that is used for anaerobic digestion and (ii) the portion of a site or facility that is used to process food scrap at a food scrap processing facility. Provides for moneys that are appropriated from the Solid Waste Management Fund to the Agency in certain years for solid waste management activities to be segregated into a separate account for use by the Prairie Research Institute of the University of Illinois for the costs of implementing the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Updates requirements for each county waste management plan's recycling program with respect to food scrap collection programs. Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Provides that a person that generates more than the applicable regulatory threshold of food and food scrap and that is located within 20 miles, prior to July 1, 2035, or 25 miles, on and after July 1, 2035, of an Agency-permitted composting facility or anaerobic digester that accepts food scrap and that has the permitted capacity to accept food scrap shall, among other things, source separate food and food scrap from other solid waste and either arrange for the transfer of the food or food scrap to a location that manages food and food scrap in a manner consistent with the food and food scrap management hierarchy set forth in the Act or manage the food and food scrap on site in accordance with other applicable State and local laws and rules. Grants the Agency rulemaking powers. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  1/24/2025HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Joyce Mason
  1/28/2025HouseFirst Reading
  1/28/2025HouseReferred to Rules Committee
  2/18/2025HouseAssigned to Energy & Environment Committee
  3/6/2025HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray
  3/10/2025HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
  3/17/2025HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Joyce Mason
  3/17/2025HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
  3/18/2025HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Energy & Environment Committee
  3/20/2025HouseHouse Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Energy & Environment Committee; by Voice Vote
  3/20/2025HouseDo Pass as Amended / Short Debate Energy & Environment Committee; 019-010-000
  3/21/2025HousePlaced on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
  3/26/2025HouseSecond Reading - Short Debate
  3/26/2025HouseHeld on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
  4/2/2025HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Ann M. Williams
  4/10/2025HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper
  4/10/2025HouseRemoved Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
  4/11/2025HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee

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