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 1        AN ACT concerning environmental protection.

 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 as follows:

 6        (415 ILCS 5/22) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1022)
 7        Sec. 22.  Regulations.   In accord with Title VII of this
 8    Act,  the Board may adopt regulations to promote the purposes
 9    of this Title.   Without  limiting  the  generality  of  this
10    authority,  such regulations may among other things prescribe
11    the following:
12        (a)  Standards for the  location,  design,  construction,
13    sanitation, operation, maintenance, and discontinuance of the
14    operation  of  refuse  collection  and  disposal, storage and
15    treatment sites and facilities and resource conservation  and
16    recovery sites and facilities;
17        (b)  Standards   for  the  dumping  of  any  refuse,  and
18    standards for the handling, storing, processing, transporting
19    and disposal of any hazardous waste;
20        (c)  Requirements  and  standards  for  the  keeping   of
21    records  and the reporting and retaining of data collected by
22    generators,  processors,  storers,  transporters,   handlers,
23    treaters, and disposers of special or hazardous waste;
24        (d)  Requirements   and   standards   for  equipment  and
25    procedures for monitoring  contaminant  discharges  at  their
26    source,   the  collection  of  samples  and  the  collection,
27    reporting  and  retention  of  data   resulting   from   such
28    monitoring;
29        (e)  Alert  and  abatement  standards  relative  to  land
30    pollution  emergencies constituting an acute danger to health
31    or to the environment;
 
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 1        (f)  Requirements and standards for adequate  and  proper
 2    care   and  maintenance  of,  closure  of,  and  post-closure
 3    monitoring, maintenance and use of hazardous  waste  disposal
 4    sites;
 5        (g)  Requirements  to  prohibit  the  disposal of certain
 6    hazardous  wastes  in   sanitary   landfills   where,   after
 7    regulatory  proceedings held in conformance with Title VII of
 8    this Act, it is determined by the Board that  the  long  term
 9    impacts  to  public  health and the environment are such that
10    land burial should not be allowed and where  an  economically
11    reasonable,  technically  feasible  and environmentally sound
12    alternative is available for processing, recycling,  fixation
13    or   neutralization   of   such   wastes.  The  agency  shall
14    participate in all such proceedings. No such prohibition  may
15    become  effective  unless  a  specific alternative technology
16    meeting the criteria of this subsection is identified by  the
17    Board.  Nothing  in  this  subsection shall prohibit the land
18    burial of any hazardous waste which is the subject of  review
19    under  this subsection until such time as a final prohibition
20    order is issued by the Board.
21    (Source: P.A. 83-425.)