(415 ILCS 5/46) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1046)
Sec. 46.
(a) Any municipality, sanitary district, county or other
public body created by or pursuant to State law and having jurisdiction
over disposal of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, which has
been directed by an order issued by the Board or by the circuit court to
abate any violation of this Act or of any regulation adopted thereunder
shall, unless such order be set aside upon review, take steps for the
acquisition or construction of such facilities, or for such repair,
alteration, extension or completion of existing facilities, or for such
modification of existing practices as may be necessary to comply with
the order. The cost of the acquisition, construction, repair,
alteration, completion, or extension of such facilities, or of such
modification of practices shall be paid out of funds on hand available
for such purposes, or out of the general funds of such public body not
otherwise appropriated.
If funds on hand or unappropriated are insufficient for the purposes
of this Section, the necessary funds shall be raised by the issuance of
either general obligation or revenue bonds. If the estimated cost of
the steps necessary to be taken by such public body to comply with such
order is such that the bond issue, necessary to finance such project,
would not raise the total outstanding bonded indebtedness of such public
body in excess of any limit which may be imposed upon such indebtedness,
the necessary bonds may be issued as a direct obligation of such public
body and retired pursuant to general law governing the issue of such
bonds. No election or referendum shall be necessary for the issuance of
bonds under this Section.
The funds made available by the issuance of direct obligation or
revenue bonds as herein provided shall constitute a Sanitary Fund, and
shall be used for no other purpose than for carrying out such order or
orders of the Board.
The Attorney General shall enforce this provision of the Act by an
action for mandamus, injunction, or other appropriate relief.
Any general obligation bonds issued under this Section, or any revenue
bonds
issued under this Section as limited bonds pursuant to Section 15.01 of the
Local
Government Debt Reform Act, are subject to the requirements of the Bond Issue
Notification Act.
(b) In order to be eligible for federal grants for construction of
sewage works pursuant to Section 201(g) of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, as now or hereafter amended, any sanitary district,
drainage district, municipality, county, special district or other unit
of local government established pursuant to State law, that owns or
operates sewage works may adopt, in accordance with such unit's
statutory procedures, ordinances or regulations to provide for systems
of proportionate cost sharing for operation and maintenance by
recipients of such unit's waste treatment services, to provide for
payments by industrial users of costs of sewage works construction
allocable to the treatment of industrial wastes, and to provide such
other capabilities as may be necessary to comply with Sections 204(b),
307, and 308 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as now or
hereafter amended.
(c) In order to comply with Section 307 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, as now or hereafter amended, and regulations promulgated
thereunder, the units of local government
identified in subsection (b) of this Section may adopt, in accordance with
such unit's statutory procedures, ordinances or regulations to enable the
unit of government, as regards industrial users of sewage works, to control
through permit, contract, order or similar means, the nature and amount
of pollutants discharged to the sewage works, to require compliance with
applicable pretreatment standards and requirements, to require compliance
schedules and the submission of notices and self-monitoring reports related
thereto, to carry out inspection and monitoring procedures in order to
determine compliance or noncompliance with the applicable pretreatment
standards and requirements, to obtain remedies including, but not limited
to, injunctive relief and civil and criminal penalties for noncompliance
with pretreatment standards and requirements, and to provide such other
capabilities as may be necessary to comply with Section 307 of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as now or hereafter amended, and
regulations
promulgated thereunder.
(Source: P.A. 89-655, eff. 1-1-97.)
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