Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB1616 Compare Versions

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	1	+	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
	2	+	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1616 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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	5	+	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.
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3	11		1 AN ACT concerning safety.
4	12		2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
5	13		3 represented in the General Assembly:
6	14		4 Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
7	15		5 changing Section 22.60 as follows:
8	16		6 (415 ILCS 5/22.60)
9	17		7 (For Section repeal see subsection (e))
10	18		8 Sec. 22.60. Pilot project for Will County and Grundy
11	19		9 County pyrolysis or gasification facility.
12	20		10 (a) As used in this Section:
13	21		11 "Plastics" means polystyrene or any other synthetic
14	22		12 organic polymer that can be molded into shape under heat and
15	23		13 pressure and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form.
16	24		14 "Plastics gasification facility" means a manufacturing
17	25		15 facility that:
18	26		16 (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have
19	27		17 been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a
20	28		18 feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a
21	29		19 gasification feedstock; and
22	30		20 (2) uses heat in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere to
23	31		21 process the feedstock into fuels, chemicals, or chemical
24	32		22 feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in
25	33		23 the form of raw materials or products.
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	37	+	103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1616 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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	40	+	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.
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34	68		1 "Plastics pyrolysis facility" means a manufacturing
35	69		2 facility that:
36	70		3 (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have
37	71		4 been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a
38	72		5 feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a
39	73		6 pyrolysis feedstock; and
40	74		7 (2) uses heat in the absence of oxygen to process the
41	75		8 uncontaminated plastics into fuels, chemicals, or chemical
42	76		9 feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in
43	77		10 the form of raw materials or products.
44	78		11 (b) Provided that permitting and construction has
45	79		12 commenced prior to July 1, 2027 2025, a pilot project allowing
46	80		13 for a pyrolysis or gasification facility in accordance with
47	81		14 this Section is permitted for a locally zoned and approved
48	82		15 site in either Will County or Grundy County.
49	83		16 (c) To the extent allowed by federal law, uncontaminated
50	84		17 plastics that have been processed into a feedstock meeting
51	85		18 feedstock specifications for a plastics gasification facility
52	86		19 or plastics pyrolysis facility, and that are further processed
53	87		20 by such a facility and returned to the economic mainstream in
54	88		21 the form of raw materials or products, are considered recycled
55	89		22 and are not subject to regulation as waste.
56	90		23 (d) The Agency may propose to the Board for adoption, and
57	91		24 the Board may adopt, rules establishing standards for
58	92		25 materials accepted as feedstocks by plastics gasification
59	93		26 facilities and plastics pyrolysis facilities, rules
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70	104		1 establishing standards for the management of feedstocks at
71	105		2 plastics gasification facilities and plastics pyrolysis
72	106		3 facilities, and any other rules, as may be necessary to
73	107		4 implement and administer this Section.
74	108		5 (e) If permitting and construction for the pilot project
75	109		6 under subsection (b) has not commenced by July 1, 2027 2025,
76	110		7 this Section is repealed.
77	111		8 (Source: P.A. 101-141, eff. 7-1-20; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)
78	112		9 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
79	113		10 becoming law.
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