HB0338 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0338

Introduced 1/27/2009, by Rep. Jack D. Franks

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 689/15

Amends the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act. Provides that a grant recipient must be constructing, modifying, altering, or retrofitting a plant that has annual production capacity of no less than 5,000,000 (now, 30,000,000) gallons of renewable fuel per year.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning renewable fuels.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:

(20 ILCS 689/15)

Sec. 15. Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program.

(a) The Department must develop and administer the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program to assist in the construction, modification, alteration, or retrofitting of renewable fuel plants in Illinois. The recipient of a grant under this Section must:

(1) be constructing, modifying, altering, or retrofitting a plant in the State of Illinois;

(2) be constructing, modifying, altering, or retrofitting a plant that has annual production capacity of no less than 5,000,000 30,000,000 gallons of renewable fuel per year; and

(3) enter into a project labor agreement as prescribed by Section 25 of this Act.

(b) Grant applications must be made on forms provided by and in accordance with procedures established by the Department.

(c) The Department must give preference to applicants that use Illinois agricultural products in the production of renewable fuel at the plant for which the grant is being requested.

(Source: P.A. 93-15, eff. 6-11-03.)