HB5666 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB5666

Introduced , by Rep. Anthony DeLuca

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

New Act
65 ILCS 5/11-19-1	from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-1
415 ILCS 15/13 new

Creates the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act. Provides that any person who engages in the business of collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste, recyclable material, landscape waste, brush, or other refuse operating in specified counties or municipalities shall offer the collection of recyclable materials from any commercial business, commercial property, or institutional facility. Provides that recyclable materials collected by a hauler within a county shall not be deposited into a landfill or incinerator unless all reasonable efforts have been made by the hauler to sell those recyclable materials to a processor or end user. Provides that counties and municipalities may require haulers operating within their boundaries to obtain license decals. Requires recycling centers or recycling center operators to report to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Provides that the new requirements apply only to contracts for collecting or hauling of garbage, municipal waste, recyclable material, landscape waste, brush, or other refuse entered into, renewed, or extended on or after the effective date of the Act. Provides that a home rule unit may not regulate haulers in a manner less restrictive than the regulation of haulers under the Act. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the contract provisions of the Act are subject to the provisions of the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act, and apply only to contracts or franchises regulated by the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act awarded prior to the effective date, provided that the contract is not modified to cover additional categories of refuse, waste, or material. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Provides that the Act is subject to the provisions of the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act.

Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

"Applicant" means any Person applying for a solid waste hauling license under this Act.

"County" means a county in Illinois having a population of 3,000,000 or more, and any county that is contiguous to that county.

"General construction or demolition debris" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 3.160 of the Environmental Protection Act.

"Hauler" means any person who engages in the business of collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste, recyclable material, landscape waste, brush, or other refuse on a continuous and regular basis, and makes multiple scheduled collections per month within a county.

"Landscape waste" means all accumulations of grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs, and other materials accumulated as the result of the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines, and trees.

"Municipal waste" means garbage, general household institutional and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or office waste, and landscape waste. "Municipal waste" also includes "garbage", "refuse", and "ashes", as those terms are defined in Section 11-19-2 of the Municipal Code.

"Municipality" means a municipality, as defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, that is located either partially or wholly within the boundaries of a county as defined in this Section.

"Person" means any business, public or private corporation, partnership, association, government agency, municipality, unit of local government, or other legal entity.

"Recycling" means a method, technique, or process designed to remove any contaminant from waste so as to render that waste reusable, or any process by which materials that would otherwise be disposed of or discarded are collected, separated, or processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products.

"Recycling center" means a site or a facility that accepts only segregated, nonhazardous, nonspecial, homogenous, nonputrescible materials, such as dry paper, glass, cans or plastics for subsequent use in the secondary materials market.

"Recyclable material" means material that is separated from municipal waste for the purpose of recycling, including, but not limited to, ferrous metal cans, aluminum containers, glass, plastics including HDPE or PET containers and plastics #3 through #7, newsprint, corrugated paper, junk mail, magazines, office paper, and boxboard.

Section 10. Collection of recyclable materials.

(a) Each hauler operating in a county or municipality shall offer, either as part of basic service, or alternatively as an additional service, the collection of recyclable materials from any commercial business, commercial property, or institutional facility within that county or municipality. Haulers shall provide information on how and what materials to recycle at least once every other year to customers with recycling service. Haulers shall provide a written offer to provide recycling services to commercial businesses, owners or operators of commercial property, and institutional facilities that are not recycling. Those offers shall be made at least once during the term of the contract or at least once every 2 years, whichever is shorter. The hauler's written offer shall include a request that the commercial business, owner or operator of the commercial business, or institutional facility respond to the hauler's request to provide recycling services in writing.

(b) Recyclable materials collected by a hauler within a county shall not be deposited into a landfill or incinerator unless all reasonable efforts have been made by the hauler to sell those recyclable materials to a processor or end user.

(c) Ownership of recyclable materials set out for collection shall remain with the commercial business, commercial property owner, or institutional facility that set out the material for collection until the material is removed by the hauler.

Section 15. Compliance.

Nothing in this Act shall exempt a hauler from obtaining a license or permit required by other applicable laws or regulations. The hauler shall at all times operate in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

In the event of a conflict between this Act and any other law, including, but not limited to, the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act, the Counties Code, and the Illinois Municipal Code, this Act shall control.

Section 20. Recyclable materials reporting. Beginning January 15, 2015, and each January 15 and July 15 thereafter, a recycling center, a recycling center operator, or a facility that accepts exclusively general construction or demolition debris pursuant to Section 22.38 of the Act must provide a report to the Agency, on forms provided by the Agency, that includes: (i) the site name, the owner of the recycling center or general construction or demolition debris facility, and the semi-annual period for which the summary applies; and (ii) the total quantity of recyclable materials or general construction or demolition debris received during the preceding semi-annual period, in tons or cubic yards.

Section 25. Applicability.

(a) Nothing in this Act shall apply to a contract or franchise, entered into prior to the effective date of this Act, for collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste, recyclable material, landscape waste, brush, general construction or demolition debris, or other refuse, waste, or material from non-residential locations, nor to any such contracts that have been amended, extended, or renewed either before or after the effective date of this Act.

(b) The provisions of this Act apply only in a county having a population of 3,000,000 or more, and in any county that is contiguous to that county. However, nothing in this Act shall apply to a municipality having a population of 2,000,000 or more.

(c) On or after the effective date of this Act, no municipality, other than as described in subsection (d) of this Section, shall have the authority to award a contract or franchise for collecting or hauling garbage, municipal waste, recyclable material, landscape waste, brush, or general construction or demolition debris or other refuse, waste, or material from non-residential locations.

(d) The provisions of subsection (c) of this Section shall not apply to a contract or franchise that, prior to the effective date of this Act, was awarded by a municipality pursuant to the provisions of Section 11-19-1 of the Municipal Code, nor to any such contracts that have been extended or renewed either before or after the effective date of this Act, provided that the contract is not modified to cover additional categories of refuse, waste, or material.

Section 30. Home Rule. A home rule unit may not regulate haulers in a manner less restrictive than the regulation of haulers by the State under this Act. This Act is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.

Section 35. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by changing Section 11-19-1 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/11-19-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-19-1)

Sec. 11-19-1. Contracts.

(a) Any city, village or incorporated town may make contracts with any other city, village, or incorporated town or with any person, corporation, or county, or any agency created by intergovernmental agreement, for more than one year and not exceeding 30 years relating to the collection and final disposition, or relating solely to either the collection or final disposition of garbage, refuse and ashes. A municipality may contract with private industry to operate a designated facility for the disposal, treatment or recycling of solid waste, and may enter into contracts with private firms or local governments for the delivery of waste to such facility. In regard to a contract involving a garbage, refuse, or garbage and refuse incineration facility, the 30 year contract limitation imposed by this Section shall be computed so that the 30 years shall not begin to run until the date on which the facility actually begins accepting garbage or refuse. The payments required in regard to any contract entered into under this Division 19 shall not be regarded as indebtedness of the city, village, or incorporated town, as the case may be, for the purpose of any debt limitation imposed by any law.

(b) If a municipality with a population of less than 1,000,000 has never awarded a franchise to a private entity for the collection of waste from non-residential locations, then that municipality may not award such a franchise without issuing a request for proposal. The municipality may not issue a request for proposal without first: (i) holding at least one public hearing seeking comment on the advisability of issuing a request for proposal and awarding a franchise; (ii) providing at least 30 days' written notice of the hearing, delivered by first class mail to all private entities that provide non-residential waste collection services within the municipality that the municipality is able to identify through its records; and (iii) providing at least 30 days' public notice of the hearing.

After issuing a request for proposal, the municipality may not award a franchise without first: (i) allowing at least 30 days for proposals to be submitted to the municipality; (ii) holding at least one public hearing after the receipt of proposals on whether to award a franchise to a proposed franchisee; and (iii) providing at least 30 days' public notice of the hearing. At the public hearing, the municipality must disclose and discuss the proposed franchise fee or calculation formula of such franchise fee that it will receive under the proposed franchise.

(b-5) If no request for proposal is issued within 120 days after the initial public hearing required in subsection (b), then the municipality must hold another hearing as outlined in subsection (b).

(b-10) If a municipality has not awarded a franchise within 210 days after the date that a request for proposal is issued pursuant to subsection (b), then the municipality must adhere to all of the requirements set forth in subsections (b) and (b-5).

(b-15) The franchise fee and any other fees, taxes, or charges imposed by the municipality in connection with a franchise for the collection of waste from non-residential locations must be used exclusively for costs associated with administering the franchise program.

(c) If a municipality with a population of less than 1,000,000 has never awarded a franchise to a private entity for the collection of waste from non-residential locations, then a private entity may not begin providing waste collection services to non-residential locations under a franchise agreement with that municipality at any time before the date that is 15 months after the date the ordinance or resolution approving the award of the franchise is adopted.

(d) For purposes of this Section, "waste" means garbage, refuse, or ashes as defined in Section 11-19-2.

(e) A home rule unit may not award a franchise to a private entity for the collection of waste in a manner contrary to the provisions of this Section. This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.

(f) This Section is subject to the provisions of the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act, and applies only to: (1) contracts or franchises awarded prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, and (2) such contracts that have been amended, extended, or renewed either before or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, provided that the contract is not modified to cover additional categories of refuse, waste, or material.

(Source: P.A. 95-856, eff. 10-1-08; 96-1215, eff. 7-22-10.)

Section 40. The Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act is amended by adding Section 13 as follows:

(415 ILCS 15/13 new)

Sec. 13. Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act. This Act is subject to the provisions of the Illinois Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.