Full Text of HB3859 96th General Assembly
HB3859 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB3859
Introduced 2/26/2009, by Rep. Jack D. Franks SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Reenacts a Section concerning fast-track rulemaking for the Clean Air Act. Defines the terms "fast-track rulemaking" and "requires to be adopted." Provides that if the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 require the adoption of rules other than identical in substance rules, then the Pollution Control Board must adopt rules under fast-track rulemaking if requested to do so by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Sets out the form for a fast-track rulemaking proposal. Sets out the procedure for a fast-track rulemaking. Provides that the Board must accept evidence and comments on the economic impact of any provision of the rule and must consider the economic impact of the rule in any fast-track rulemaking proceeding. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning safety.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by | 5 |
| reenacting and changing Section 28.5 (which was repealed on | 6 |
| December 31, 2007) as follows:
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| (415 ILCS 5/28.5 new)
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| Sec. 28.5. Clean Air Act rules; fast-track.
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| (a) This Section applies through December 31, 2014 and | 10 |
| applies solely to the adoption of rules proposed by
the Agency | 11 |
| and required to be adopted by the State under the Clean Air Act
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| as amended by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA).
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| (b) For purposes of this Section, a "fast-track" rulemaking | 14 |
| proceeding
is a proceeding to promulgate a rule that the CAAA | 15 |
| requires to be adopted. For the purposes of this Section, | 16 |
| "requires to be adopted" refers only to those
regulations or | 17 |
| parts of regulations for which the United States Environmental
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| Protection Agency is empowered to impose sanctions against the | 19 |
| State for failure to adopt such rules. All fast-track rules | 20 |
| must be adopted under
procedures set forth in this Section, | 21 |
| unless another provision of this Act
specifies the method for | 22 |
| adopting a specific rule.
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| (c) When the CAAA requires rules other than identical in |
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| substance rules
to be adopted, upon request by the Agency, the | 2 |
| Board must adopt rules under
fast-track rulemaking | 3 |
| requirements.
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| (d) The Agency must submit its fast-track rulemaking | 5 |
| proposal in the
following form:
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| (1) The Agency must file the rule in a form that meets | 7 |
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requirements of the Illinois Administrative Procedure | 8 |
| Act and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
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| (2) The cover sheet of the proposal shall prominently | 10 |
| state that the
rule is being proposed under this Section.
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| (3) The proposal shall clearly identify the provisions | 12 |
| and portions of
the federal statute, regulations, | 13 |
| guidance, policy statement, or other
documents upon which | 14 |
| the rule is based.
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| (4) The supporting documentation for the rule shall | 16 |
| summarize the basis of the rule.
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| (5) The Agency must describe in general the alternative | 18 |
| selected
and the basis for the alternative.
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| (6) The Agency must file a summary of economic and | 20 |
| technical data
upon which it relied in drafting the rule.
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| (7) The Agency must provide a list of any documents | 22 |
| upon which it
directly relied in drafting the rule or upon | 23 |
| which it intends to rely at
the hearings and must provide | 24 |
| such documents to the Board. Additionally,
the Agency must | 25 |
| make such documents available at an appropriate
location | 26 |
| for inspection and copying at the expense of the interested |
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| party.
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| (8) The Agency must include in its submission a | 3 |
| description of the
geographical area to which the rule is | 4 |
| intended to apply, a description of
the process or | 5 |
| processes affected, an identification by classes of the
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| entities expected to be affected, and a list of sources | 7 |
| expected to be affected
by the rule to the extent known to | 8 |
| the Agency.
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| (e) Within 14 days of receipt of the proposal, the Board | 10 |
| must file the
rule for first notice under the Illinois | 11 |
| Administrative Procedure Act and must
schedule all required | 12 |
| hearings on the proposal and cause public notice to be
given in | 13 |
| accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and | 14 |
| the
CAAA.
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| (f) The Board must set 3 hearings on the proposal, each of | 16 |
| which shall
be scheduled to continue from day to day, excluding | 17 |
| weekends and State and
federal holidays, until completed. The | 18 |
| Board must
require the written submission of all testimony at | 19 |
| least 10 days before a
hearing, with simultaneous service to | 20 |
| all participants of record in the
proceeding as of 15 days | 21 |
| prior to hearing, unless a waiver is granted by
the Board for | 22 |
| good cause. In order to further expedite the hearings,
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| presubmitted testimony shall be accepted into the record | 24 |
| without the reading of
the testimony at hearing, provided that | 25 |
| the witness swears to the testimony and
is available for | 26 |
| questioning, and the Board must make every effort to conduct
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| the proceedings expeditiously and avoid duplication and | 2 |
| extraneous material.
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| (1) The first hearing shall be held within 55 days of | 4 |
| receipt of the
rule and shall be confined to testimony by | 5 |
| and questions of the Agency's
witnesses concerning the | 6 |
| scope, applicability, and basis of the rule.
Within 7 days | 7 |
| after the first hearing, any person may request that the
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| second hearing be held.
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| (A) If, after the first hearing, the Agency and | 10 |
| affected entities are
in agreement on the rule, the | 11 |
| United States Environmental Protection Agency
has not | 12 |
| informed the Board of any unresolved objection to the | 13 |
| rule, and no
other interested party contests the rule | 14 |
| or asks for the opportunity to present
additional | 15 |
| evidence, the Board may cancel the additional | 16 |
| hearings. When the
Board adopts the final order under | 17 |
| these circumstances, it shall be based on
the Agency's | 18 |
| proposal as agreed to by the parties.
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| (B) If, after the first hearing, the Agency and | 20 |
| affected entities are in
agreement upon a portion of | 21 |
| the rule, the United States Environmental
Protection | 22 |
| Agency has not informed the Board of any unresolved | 23 |
| objections
to that agreed portion of the rule, and no | 24 |
| other interested party contests
that agreed portion of | 25 |
| the rule or asks for the opportunity to present
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| additional evidence, the Board must proceed to the |
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| second hearing, as
provided in paragraph (2) of | 2 |
| subsection (g) of this Section, but the
hearing shall | 3 |
| be limited in scope to the unresolved portion of the | 4 |
| proposal.
When the Board adopts the final order under | 5 |
| these circumstances, it shall
be based on such portion | 6 |
| of the Agency's proposal as agreed to by the parties.
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| (2) The second hearing shall be scheduled to commence | 8 |
| within 30 days
of the first day of the first hearing and | 9 |
| shall be devoted to presentation of
testimony, documents, | 10 |
| and comments by affected entities and all other
interested | 11 |
| parties.
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| (3) The third hearing shall be scheduled to commence | 13 |
| within 14 days
after the first day of the second hearing | 14 |
| and shall be devoted solely to any
Agency response to the | 15 |
| material submitted at the second hearing and to any
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| response by other parties. The third hearing shall be | 17 |
| cancelled if the Agency
indicates to the Board that it does | 18 |
| not intend to introduce any additional
material.
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| (g) In any fast-track rulemaking proceeding, the Board must | 20 |
| accept
evidence and comments on the economic impact of any | 21 |
| provision of the rule
and must consider the economic impact of | 22 |
| the rule based on the record.
The Board may order an economic | 23 |
| impact study in a manner that will not
prevent adoption of the | 24 |
| rule within the time required by subsection (n)
of this | 25 |
| Section.
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| (h) In all fast-track rulemakings under this Section, the |
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| Board must
take into account factors set forth in subsection | 2 |
| (a) of Section 27 of
this Act.
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| (i) The Board must adopt rules in the fast-track rulemaking | 4 |
| docket
under the requirements of this Section that the CAAA | 5 |
| requires to be
adopted, and may consider a non-required rule in | 6 |
| a second docket that shall
proceed under Title VII of this Act.
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| (j) The Board is directed to take whatever measures are | 8 |
| available to it
to complete fast-track rulemaking as | 9 |
| expeditiously as possible consistent
with the need for careful | 10 |
| consideration. These measures shall include, but
not be limited | 11 |
| to, having hearings transcribed on an expedited basis.
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| (k) Following the hearings, the Board must close the record | 13 |
| 14 days
after the availability of the transcript.
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| (l) The Board must not revise or otherwise change an Agency | 15 |
| fast-track
rulemaking proposal without agreement of the Agency | 16 |
| until after the end
of the hearing and comment period. Any | 17 |
| revisions to an Agency
proposal shall be based on the record of | 18 |
| the proceeding.
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| (m) All rules adopted by the Board under this Section shall | 20 |
| be based
solely on the record before it.
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| (n) The Board must complete a fast-track rulemaking by | 22 |
| adopting
a second notice order no later than 130 days after | 23 |
| receipt of the proposal if
no third hearing is held and no | 24 |
| later than 150 days if the third hearing is
held. If the order | 25 |
| includes a rule, the Illinois Board must file the rule for
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| second notice under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act |
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| within 5 days
after adoption of the order.
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| (o) Upon receipt of a statement of no objection to the rule | 3 |
| from the
Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, the Board | 4 |
| must adopt the final
order and submit the rule to the Secretary | 5 |
| of State for publication and
certification within 21 days.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 7 |
| becoming law.
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