SB2145 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 01978 JDS 11988 b

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2145

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. William R. Haine

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

105 ILCS 105/5a rep.
105 ILCS 105/6	from Ch. 122, par. 1406
415 ILCS 100/5	from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7205
415 ILCS 100/8 new
415 ILCS 120/30
225 ILCS 220/Act rep.
225 ILCS 221/Act rep.

Amends the Asbestos Abatement Act. Deletes a provision requiring the Department of Public Health to (i) require local educational agencies to submit to the Department certain asbestos related response action contracts for which the agency seeks indemnification and (ii) collect from the agency a certain percentage of each response action contract for deposit into the Response Contractors Indemnification Fund. Amends the Response Action Contractor Indemnification Act. Provides that, within 30 days after the effective date, the State Comptroller shall order transferred and the State Treasurer shall transfer all moneys in the Response Action Contractor Indemnification Fund to the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund. Repeals the Act on the 31st day after the effective date. Amends the Alternate Fuels Act. In a Section concerning the rebate program, authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to establish rebate priorities and provides that the rebate applications must be submitted within 12 months after a vehicle conversion occurred, rather than within the same calendar year (as is currently required). Repeals the Hazardous Waste Crane and Hoisting Equipment Operators Licensing Act and the Hazardous Waste Laborers Licensing Act. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning environmental safety.

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

(105 ILCS 105/5a rep.)

Section 3. The Asbestos Abatement Act is amended by repealing Section 5a.

Section 5. The Asbestos Abatement Act is amended by changing Section 6 as follows:

(105 ILCS 105/6) (from Ch. 122, par. 1406)

Sec. 6. Powers and Duties of the Department.

(a) The Department is empowered to promulgate any rules necessary to ensure proper implementation and administration of this Act and of the federal Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

(b) Rules promulgated by the Department shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) all rules necessary to achieve compliance with the federal Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 and the regulations promulgated thereunder;

(2) rules providing for the training and licensing of persons and firms to perform asbestos inspection and air sampling; to perform abatement work; and to serve as asbestos abatement contractors, management, planners, project designers, project supervisors, project managers and asbestos workers for public and private secondary and elementary schools; and any necessary rules relating to the correct and safe performance of those tasks; and

(3) rules for the development and submission of asbestos management plans by local educational agencies, and for review and approval of such plans by the Department.

(c) In carrying out its responsibilities under this Act, the Department shall:

(1) publish a list of persons and firms licensed pursuant to this Act, except that the Department shall not be required to publish a list of licensed asbestos workers; and

(2) require each local educational agency to maintain records of asbestos-related activities, which shall be made available to the Department upon request. ; and

(3) require local educational agencies to submit to the Department for review and approval all asbestos-related response action contracts for which the local educational agency seeks indemnification under the Response Action Contractor Indemnification Act, and with respect to such response action contracts, to collect from the local educational agency and deposit in the Response Contractors Indemnification Fund 5% of the amount of each response action contract, as required under the Response Action Contractor Indemnification Act.

(d) Adopt rules for the collection of fees for training course approval; and for licensing of inspectors, management planners, project designers, contractors, supervisors, air sampling professionals, project managers and workers.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

Section 10. The Response Action Contractor Indemnification Act is amended by changing Section 5 and adding Section 8 as follows:

(415 ILCS 100/5) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7205)

Sec. 5. Response Contractors Indemnification Fund.

(a) There is hereby created the Response Contractors Indemnification Fund. The State Treasurer, ex officio, shall be custodian of the Fund, and the Comptroller shall direct payments from the Fund upon vouchers properly certified by the Attorney General in accordance with Section 4. The Treasurer shall credit interest on the Fund to the Fund.

(b) Every State response action contract shall provide that 5% of each payment to be made by the State under the contract shall be paid by the State directly into the Response Contractors Indemnification Fund rather than to the contractor, except that when there is at least $100,000 in the Fund at the beginning of a State fiscal year, State response action contracts during that fiscal year need not provide that 5% of each payment made under the contract be paid into the Fund. When only a portion of a contract relates to a remedial or response action, or to the identification, handling, storage, treatment or disposal of a pollutant, the contract shall provide that only that portion is subject to this subsection.

(c) Within 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer $1,200,000 from the Response Contractors Indemnification Fund to the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund. The Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer $1,200,000 from the Response Contractors Indemnification Fund to the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund on the first day of fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.

(d) Within 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer $2,000,000 from the Response Contractors Indemnification Fund to the Asbestos Abatement Fund.

(e) Within 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, the Comptroller shall order transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer all monies in the Response Action Contractor Indemnification Fund in excess of $100,000 from the Response Action Contractor Indemnification Fund to the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund.

(f) Within 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the State Comptroller shall order transferred and the State Treasurer shall transfer all moneys in the Response Action Contractor Indemnification Fund to the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund.

(Source: P.A. 92-486, eff. 1-1-02; 93-152, eff. 7-10-03.)

(415 ILCS 100/8 new)

Sec. 8. Repealer. This Act is repealed on the 31st day after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly.

Section 15. The Alternate Fuels Act is amended by changing Section 30 as follows:

(415 ILCS 120/30)

Sec. 30. Rebate program. Beginning January 1, 1997, and as long as funds are available, each owner of an alternate fuel vehicle shall be eligible to apply for a rebate. Beginning July 1, 2005, each owner of a vehicle using domestic renewable fuel is eligible to apply for a fuel cost differential rebate under subsection (c) of this Section. The Agency shall cause rebates to be issued under the provisions of this Act. An owner may apply for only one of 3 types of rebates with regard to an individual alternate fuel vehicle: (i) a conversion cost rebate, (ii) an OEM differential cost rebate, or (iii) a fuel cost differential rebate. Only one rebate may be issued with regard to a particular alternate fuel vehicle during the life of that vehicle. A rebate shall not exceed $4,000 per vehicle. Over the life of this rebate program, an owner of an alternate fuel vehicle or a vehicle using domestic renewable fuel may not receive rebates for more than 150 vehicles per location or for 300 vehicles in total.

(a) A conversion cost rebate may be issued to an owner or his or her designee in order to reduce the cost of converting of a conventional vehicle to an alternate fuel vehicle. Conversion of a conventional vehicle to alternate fuel capability must take place in Illinois for the owner to be eligible for the conversion cost rebate. Amounts spent by applicants within a calendar year may be claimed on a rebate application submitted within 12 months after the month in which the conversion of the vehicle took place during that calendar year. Approved conversion cost rebates applied for during or after calendar year 1997 shall be 80% of all approved conversion costs claimed and documented. Approval of conversion cost rebates may continue after calendar year 2002, if funds are still available. An applicant may include on an application submitted in 1997 all amounts spent within that calendar year on the conversion, even if the expenditure occurred before promulgation of the Agency rules.

(b) An OEM differential cost rebate may be issued to an owner or his or her designee in order to reduce the cost differential between a conventional vehicle or engine and the same vehicle or engine, produced by an original equipment manufacturer, that has the capability to use alternate fuels.

A new OEM vehicle or engine must be purchased in Illinois and must either be an alternate fuel vehicle or used in an alternate fuel vehicle, respectively, for the owner to be eligible for an OEM differential cost rebate. Large vehicles, over 8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight, purchased outside Illinois are eligible for an OEM differential cost rebate if the same or a comparable vehicle is not available for purchase in Illinois. Amounts spent by applicants within a calendar year may be claimed on a rebate application submitted within 12 months after the month in which the new OEM vehicle or engine was purchased during that calendar year.

Approved OEM differential cost rebates applied for during or after calendar year 1997 shall be 80% of all approved cost differential claimed and documented. Approval of OEM differential cost rebates may continue after calendar year 2002, if funds are still available. An applicant may include on an application submitted in 1997 all amounts spent within that calendar year on OEM equipment, even if the expenditure occurred before promulgation of the Agency rules.

(c) A fuel cost differential rebate may be issued to an owner or his or her designee in order to reduce the cost differential between conventional fuels and domestic renewable fuels or alternate fuels purchased to operate an alternate fuel vehicle . The fuel cost differential shall be based on a 3-year life cycle cost analysis developed by the Agency by rulemaking. The rebate shall apply to and be payable during a consecutive 3-year period commencing on the date the application is approved by the Agency. Approved fuel cost differential rebates may be applied for during or after calendar year 1997 and approved rebates shall be 80% of the cost differential for a consecutive 3-year period. Approval of fuel cost differential rebates may continue after calendar year 2002 if funds are still available.

Twenty-five percent of the amount that is appropriated under Section 40 to be used to fund programs authorized by this Section during calendar year 2001 shall be designated to fund fuel cost differential rebates. If the total dollar amount of approved fuel cost differential rebate applications as of July 1, 2001 is less than the amount designated for that calendar year, the balance of designated funds shall be immediately available to fund any rebate authorized by this Section and approved in the calendar year.

An approved fuel cost differential rebate shall be paid to an owner in 3 annual installments on or about the anniversary date of the approval of the application. Owners receiving a fuel cost differential rebate shall be required to demonstrate, through recordkeeping, the use of domestic renewable fuels during the 3-year period commencing on the date the application is approved by the Agency. If the vehicle ceases to be registered to the original applicant owner, a prorated installment shall be paid to that owner or the owner's designee and the remainder of the rebate shall be canceled.

(d) Vehicles owned by the federal government or vehicles registered in a state outside Illinois are not eligible for rebates.

(Source: P.A. 94-62, eff. 6-20-05; 94-1079, eff. 6-1-07.)

(225 ILCS 220/Act rep.)

Section 20. The Hazardous Waste Crane and Hoisting Equipment Operators Licensing Act is repealed.

(225 ILCS 221/Act rep.)

Section 25. The Hazardous Waste Laborers Licensing Act is repealed.

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