Rep. Thomas Holbrook

Filed: 5/18/2011

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1543

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1543 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
5changing Section 57.11 as follows:
 
6    (415 ILCS 5/57.11)
7    Sec. 57.11. Underground Storage Tank Fund; creation.
8    (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special
9fund to be known as the Underground Storage Tank Fund. There
10shall be deposited into the Underground Storage Tank Fund all
11monies received by the Office of the State Fire Marshal as fees
12for underground storage tanks under Sections 4 and 5 of the
13Gasoline Storage Act and as fees pursuant to the Motor Fuel Tax
14Law. All amounts held in the Underground Storage Tank Fund
15shall be invested at interest by the State Treasurer. All
16income earned from the investments shall be deposited into the

 

 

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1Underground Storage Tank Fund no less frequently than
2quarterly. Moneys in the Underground Storage Tank Fund,
3pursuant to appropriation, may be used by the Agency and the
4Office of the State Fire Marshal for the following purposes:
5        (1) To take action authorized under Section 57.12 to
6    recover costs under Section 57.12.
7        (2) To assist in the reduction and mitigation of damage
8    caused by leaks from underground storage tanks, including
9    but not limited to, (i) providing alternative water
10    supplies to persons whose drinking water has become
11    contaminated as a result of those leaks and (ii)
12    reimbursing local governments for costs of remediating
13    contamination from UST releases for which a highway
14    authority agreement entered into between a local
15    government and a UST owner or operator is used as an
16    institutional control in accordance with Board rules.
17        (3) To be used as a matching amount towards federal
18    assistance relative to the release of petroleum from
19    underground storage tanks.
20        (4) For the costs of administering activities of the
21    Agency and the Office of the State Fire Marshal relative to
22    the Underground Storage Tank Fund.
23        (5) For payment of costs of corrective action incurred
24    by and indemnification to operators of underground storage
25    tanks as provided in this Title.
26        (6) For a total of 2 demonstration projects in amounts

 

 

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1    in excess of a $10,000 deductible charge designed to assess
2    the viability of corrective action projects at sites which
3    have experienced contamination from petroleum releases.
4    Such demonstration projects shall be conducted in
5    accordance with the provision of this Title.
6        (7) Subject to appropriation, moneys in the
7    Underground Storage Tank Fund may also be used by the
8    Department of Revenue for the costs of administering its
9    activities relative to the Fund and for refunds provided
10    for in Section 13a.8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Act.
11    (b) Moneys in the Underground Storage Tank Fund may,
12pursuant to appropriation, be used by the Office of the State
13Fire Marshal or the Agency to take whatever emergency action is
14necessary or appropriate to assure that the public health or
15safety is not threatened whenever there is a release or
16substantial threat of a release of petroleum from an
17underground storage tank and for the costs of administering its
18activities relative to the Underground Storage Tank Fund.
19    (c) Beginning July 1, 1993, the Governor shall certify to
20the State Comptroller and State Treasurer the monthly amount
21necessary to pay debt service on State obligations issued
22pursuant to Section 6 of the General Obligation Bond Act. On
23the last day of each month, the Comptroller shall order
24transferred and the Treasurer shall transfer from the
25Underground Storage Tank Fund to the General Obligation Bond
26Retirement and Interest Fund the amount certified by the

 

 

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1Governor, plus any cumulative deficiency in those transfers for
2prior months.
3    (d) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this Section,
4the Underground Storage Tank Fund is not subject to
5administrative charges authorized under Section 8h of the State
6Finance Act that would in any way transfer any funds from the
7Underground Storage Tank Fund into any other fund of the State.
8    (e) Beginning January 1, 2013, each Each fiscal year,
9subject to appropriation, the Agency may commit up to
10$10,000,000 of the moneys in the Underground Storage Tank Fund
11to the payment of corrective action costs for legacy sites that
12meet one or more of the following criteria as a result of the
13underground storage tank release: (i) the presence of free
14product, (ii) contamination within a regulated recharge area, a
15wellhead protection area, or the setback zone of a potable
16water supply well, (iii) contamination extending beyond the
17boundaries of the site where the release occurred, or (iv) such
18other criteria as may be adopted in Agency rules.
19        (1) Fund moneys committed under this subsection (e)
20    shall be held in the Fund for payment of the corrective
21    action costs for which the moneys were committed.
22        (2) The Agency may adopt rules governing the commitment
23    of Fund moneys under this subsection (e).
24        (3) This subsection (e) does not limit the use of Fund
25    moneys at legacy sites as otherwise provided under this
26    Title.

 

 

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1        (4) For the purposes of this subsection (e), the term
2    "legacy site" means a site for which (i) an underground
3    storage tank release was reported prior to January 1, 2005,
4    (ii) the owner or operator has been determined eligible to
5    receive payment from the Fund for corrective action costs,
6    and (iii) the Agency did not receive any applications for
7    payment prior to January 1, 2010.
8    (f) Beginning January 1, 2013, each fiscal year, subject to
9appropriation, up to $250,000 of the moneys in the Underground
10Storage Tank Fund may be used by the Illinois Department of
11Transportation to remediate contamination from UST releases
12for which highway authority agreements entered into between the
13Illinois Department of Transportation and UST owners or
14operators are used as institutional controls in accordance with
15Board rules.
16(Source: P.A. 96-34, eff. 7-13-09; 96-908, eff. 6-8-10.)".