103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1616 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 415 ILCS 5/22.60 Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires permitting and construction to commence prior to July 1, 2027 (rather than 2025) before a pilot project allowing for a pyrolysis or gasification facility is permitted for a locally zoned and approved site in either Will County or Grundy County. Makes a conforming change to language regarding repealing the provisions. Effective immediately. LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1616 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 415 ILCS 5/22.60 415 ILCS 5/22.60 Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires permitting and construction to commence prior to July 1, 2027 (rather than 2025) before a pilot project allowing for a pyrolysis or gasification facility is permitted for a locally zoned and approved site in either Will County or Grundy County. Makes a conforming change to language regarding repealing the provisions. Effective immediately. LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1616 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 415 ILCS 5/22.60 415 ILCS 5/22.60 415 ILCS 5/22.60 Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires permitting and construction to commence prior to July 1, 2027 (rather than 2025) before a pilot project allowing for a pyrolysis or gasification facility is permitted for a locally zoned and approved site in either Will County or Grundy County. Makes a conforming change to language regarding repealing the provisions. Effective immediately. LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b A BILL FOR HB1616LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b HB1616 LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b HB1616 LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b 1 AN ACT concerning safety. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by 5 changing Section 22.60 as follows: 6 (415 ILCS 5/22.60) 7 (For Section repeal see subsection (e)) 8 Sec. 22.60. Pilot project for Will County and Grundy 9 County pyrolysis or gasification facility. 10 (a) As used in this Section: 11 "Plastics" means polystyrene or any other synthetic 12 organic polymer that can be molded into shape under heat and 13 pressure and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form. 14 "Plastics gasification facility" means a manufacturing 15 facility that: 16 (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have 17 been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a 18 feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a 19 gasification feedstock; and 20 (2) uses heat in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere to 21 process the feedstock into fuels, chemicals, or chemical 22 feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in 23 the form of raw materials or products. 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1616 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 415 ILCS 5/22.60 415 ILCS 5/22.60 415 ILCS 5/22.60 Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires permitting and construction to commence prior to July 1, 2027 (rather than 2025) before a pilot project allowing for a pyrolysis or gasification facility is permitted for a locally zoned and approved site in either Will County or Grundy County. Makes a conforming change to language regarding repealing the provisions. Effective immediately. LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b A BILL FOR 415 ILCS 5/22.60 LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b HB1616 LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b HB1616- 2 -LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b HB1616 - 2 - LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b HB1616 - 2 - LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b 1 "Plastics pyrolysis facility" means a manufacturing 2 facility that: 3 (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have 4 been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a 5 feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a 6 pyrolysis feedstock; and 7 (2) uses heat in the absence of oxygen to process the 8 uncontaminated plastics into fuels, chemicals, or chemical 9 feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in 10 the form of raw materials or products. 11 (b) Provided that permitting and construction has 12 commenced prior to July 1, 2027 2025, a pilot project allowing 13 for a pyrolysis or gasification facility in accordance with 14 this Section is permitted for a locally zoned and approved 15 site in either Will County or Grundy County. 16 (c) To the extent allowed by federal law, uncontaminated 17 plastics that have been processed into a feedstock meeting 18 feedstock specifications for a plastics gasification facility 19 or plastics pyrolysis facility, and that are further processed 20 by such a facility and returned to the economic mainstream in 21 the form of raw materials or products, are considered recycled 22 and are not subject to regulation as waste. 23 (d) The Agency may propose to the Board for adoption, and 24 the Board may adopt, rules establishing standards for 25 materials accepted as feedstocks by plastics gasification 26 facilities and plastics pyrolysis facilities, rules HB1616 - 2 - LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b HB1616- 3 -LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b HB1616 - 3 - LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b HB1616 - 3 - LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b 1 establishing standards for the management of feedstocks at 2 plastics gasification facilities and plastics pyrolysis 3 facilities, and any other rules, as may be necessary to 4 implement and administer this Section. 5 (e) If permitting and construction for the pilot project 6 under subsection (b) has not commenced by July 1, 2027 2025, 7 this Section is repealed. 8 (Source: P.A. 101-141, eff. 7-1-20; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.) 9 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 10 becoming law. HB1616 - 3 - LRB103 25587 CPF 51936 b