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91_HB3015
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1 AN ACT in relation to environmental safety.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended
5 by changing Section 22.28 as follows:
6 (415 ILCS 5/22.28) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022.28)
7 Sec. 22.28. White goods; White Goods Task Force.
8 (a) Beginning July 1, 1994, no person shall knowingly
9 offer for collection or collect white goods for the purpose
10 of disposal by landfilling unless the white good components
11 have been removed.
12 (b) Beginning July 1, 1994, no owner or operator of a
13 landfill shall accept any white goods for final disposal,
14 except that white goods may be accepted if:
15 (1) the landfill participates in the Industrial
16 Materials Exchange Service by communicating the
17 availability of white goods;
18 (2) prior to final disposal, any white good
19 components have been removed from the white goods; and
20 (3) if white good components are removed from the
21 white goods at the landfill, a site operating plan
22 satisfying this Act has been approved under the site
23 operating permit and the conditions of such operating
24 plan are met.
25 (c) For the purposes of this Section:
26 (1) "White goods" shall include all discarded
27 refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, air
28 conditioners, humidifiers and other similar domestic and
29 commercial large appliances.
30 (2) "White good components" shall include:
31 (i) any chlorofluorocarbon refrigerant gas;
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1 (ii) any electrical switch containing mercury;
2 (iii) any device that contains or may contain
3 PCBs in a closed system, such as a dielectric fluid
4 for a capacitor, ballast or other component; and
5 (iv) any fluorescent lamp that contains
6 mercury.
7 (d) The Agency is authorized to provide financial
8 assistance to units of local government from the Solid Waste
9 Management Fund to plan for and implement programs to
10 collect, transport and manage white goods. Units of local
11 government may apply jointly for financial assistance under
12 this Section.
13 Applications for such financial assistance shall be
14 submitted to the Agency and must provide a description of:
15 (A) the area to be served by the program;
16 (B) the white goods intended to be included in
17 the program;
18 (C) the methods intended to be used for
19 collecting and receiving materials;
20 (D) the property, buildings, equipment and
21 personnel included in the program;
22 (E) the public education systems to be used as
23 part of the program;
24 (F) the safety and security systems that will
25 be used;
26 (G) the intended processing methods for each
27 white goods type;
28 (H) the intended destination for final
29 material handling location; and
30 (I) any staging sites used to handle collected
31 materials, the activities to be performed at such
32 sites and the procedures for assuring removal of
33 collected materials from such sites.
34 The application may be amended to reflect changes in
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1 operating procedures, destinations for collected materials,
2 or other factors.
3 Financial assistance shall be awarded for a State fiscal
4 year, and may be renewed, upon application, if the Agency
5 approves the operation of the program.
6 (e) All materials collected or received under a program
7 operated with financial assistance under this Section shall
8 be recycled whenever possible. Treatment or disposal of
9 collected materials are not eligible for financial assistance
10 unless the applicant shows and the Agency approves which
11 materials may be treated or disposed of under various
12 conditions.
13 Any revenue from the sale of materials collected under
14 such a program shall be retained by the unit of local
15 government and may be used only for the same purposes as the
16 financial assistance under this Section.
17 (f) The Agency is authorized to adopt rules necessary or
18 appropriate to the administration of this Section.
19 (g) There is established a White Goods Task Force. The
20 task force shall be composed of representatives of all of the
21 following:
22 (1) White goods retailers and manufacturers.
23 (2) Local governments.
24 (3) Affected businesses and utilities.
25 (4) Businesses involved in the processing, hauling,
26 and disposing of used white goods.
27 (5) Environmental advocacy groups.
28 The Director of the Agency and the Director of the
29 Department shall appoint the members of the task force, and
30 they or their designees shall serve as co-chairs of the task
31 force. The task force shall develop and propose desired
32 statutory, regulatory, and programmatic changes necessary to
33 effectively implement the provisions of this Section. The
34 task force shall report its recommendations to the Governor
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1 and General Assembly by July 1, 1993.
2 (Source: P.A. 89-619, eff. 1-1-97.)