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Rep. Gary Hannig
Filed: 11/14/2008
 
 
 
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| 1 |  | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1511
 
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| 2 |  |     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1511, AS AMENDED,  | 
| 3 |  | by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the  | 
| 4 |  | following:
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| 5 |  |     "Section 5. The General Obligation Bond Act is amended  by  | 
| 6 |  | changing Section 7 as follows:
 
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| 7 |  |     (30 ILCS 330/7)  (from Ch. 127, par. 657)
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| 8 |  |     Sec. 7. Coal and Energy Development. The amount of  | 
| 9 |  | $663,200,000 is
authorized to be used by the Department of  | 
| 10 |  | Commerce and Economic Opportunity (formerly Department of  | 
| 11 |  | Commerce and Community Affairs) for
coal and energy development  | 
| 12 |  | purposes, pursuant to Sections 2, 3 and 3.1 of the
Illinois  | 
| 13 |  | Coal and Energy Development Bond Act, for the facility cost  | 
| 14 |  | reports prepared pursuant to Section 1-75(d)(4) of the Illinois  | 
| 15 |  | Power Agency Act, for the purposes
specified
in Section 8.1 of  | 
| 16 |  | the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act, and for
the  | 
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| 1 |  | purposes specified in Section 605-332 of the Department of  | 
| 2 |  | Commerce and
Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil  | 
| 3 |  | Administrative Code of Illinois.  Of this
amount:
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| 4 |  |     (a) $150,000,000 $115,000,000 is
for the specific purposes  | 
| 5 |  | of (i) acquisition,
development, construction, reconstruction,  | 
| 6 |  | improvement, financing,
architectural and technical planning  | 
| 7 |  | and installation of capital facilities
consisting of  | 
| 8 |  | buildings, structures, durable equipment, and land for the
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| 9 |  | purpose of capital development of coal resources within the  | 
| 10 |  | State and for the
purposes specified in Section 8.1 of the  | 
| 11 |  | Energy Conservation and Coal
Development Act and (ii)  | 
| 12 |  | subsidizing the facility cost reports prepared pursuant to  | 
| 13 |  | Section 1-75(d)(4) of the Illinois Power Agency Act;
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| 14 |  |     (b) (Blank) $35,000,000 is for the purposes specified in  | 
| 15 |  | Section 8.1 of the
Energy
Conservation and Coal Development Act  | 
| 16 |  | and making a grant to the owner of a
generating station
located  | 
| 17 |  | in Illinois and having at least three coal-fired generating  | 
| 18 |  | units
with accredited summer capability greater than 500  | 
| 19 |  | megawatts each at such
generating station as provided in  | 
| 20 |  | Section 6 of that Bond Act;
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| 21 |  |     (c) $13,200,000 is for research, development and  | 
| 22 |  | demonstration
of forms of energy
other than that derived from  | 
| 23 |  | coal, either on or off State property; and
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| 24 |  |     (d) $500,000,000 is for the purpose of providing financial  | 
| 25 |  | assistance to
new
electric generating facilities as provided in  | 
| 26 |  | Section 605-332 of the Department
of Commerce and Economic  |