SB0105 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB094 07150 RSP 37304 b

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB0105

Introduced 2/1/2005, by Sen. Pamela J. Althoff

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

415 ILCS 5/3.380	was 415 ILCS 5/3.30
415 ILCS 5/3.535	was 415 ILCS 5/3.53

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. In a definitions Section, provides that the term "waste" does not include discarded material that is processed for recycling, reclamation, or reuse by a 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 (now, waste includes discarded material). Clarifies that recycling, reclamation, or reuse may have two distinct meanings. Effective immediately.

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A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning safety.

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

Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by adding Section 3.380 and 3.535 as follows:

(415 ILCS 5/3.380) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.30)

Sec. 3.380. Recycling, reclamation or reuse. "Recycling, reclamation or reuse" means (i) a method, technique, or process designed to remove any contaminant from waste so as to render such waste reusable, or (ii) 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.

(Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)

(415 ILCS 5/3.535) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.53)

Sec. 3.535. Waste. "Waste" means any garbage, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility or other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or coal combustion by-products as defined in Section 3.135, or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as now or hereafter amended, or source, special nuclear, or by-product materials as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 921) or any solid or dissolved material from any facility subject to the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-87) or the rules and regulations thereunder or any law or rule or regulation adopted by the State of Illinois pursuant thereto.

"Discarded material" does not include material to be processed for recycling, reclamation, or reuse by a 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.

(Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)

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