HB3881 EnrolledLRB097 14356 CEL 59191 b

1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
5adding Section 22.43a as follows:
 
6    (415 ILCS 5/22.43a new)
7    Sec. 22.43a. Establishment and expansion of landfills; ban
8in counties with more than 2,000,000 inhabitants.
9    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person
10shall establish, nor shall the Agency issue a permit for the
11establishment of, a new municipal solid waste landfill unit or
12a new sanitary landfill in a county of more than 2,000,000
13inhabitants on or after the effective date of this amendatory
14Act of the 97th General Assembly.
15    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person
16shall laterally expand, nor shall the Agency issue a permit for
17the lateral expansion of, a municipal solid waste landfill unit
18or the expansion of a sanitary landfill in a county of more
19than 2,000,000 inhabitants on or after the effective date of
20this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly.
 
21    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22becoming law.