(415 ILCS 60/13.2)
Sec. 13.2.
Agrichemical facility.
(a) An agrichemical facility located within the State of Illinois that was
not in existence during the years 1991, 1992, and 1993 and therefore did not
pay the registration fee of $500 per year per agrichemical facility for those
years may make a one-time payment of $1,500 to the Department of Agriculture
for deposit into
the Agrichemical Incident Response Trust Fund to meet the eligibility
requirement of subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of Section 22.3 of this Act.
The
payment must be
received by the Department of Agriculture prior to an incident for which
reimbursement is
sought under Section 22.3 to qualify for eligibility under subdivision (2) of
subsection (a) of Section 22.3.
(b) An agrichemical facility located within the State of Illinois that was
not in existence during the years 1991, 1992, and 1993 and therefore did not
pay the registration fee of $500 per year per agrichemical facility for those
years may also meet the eligibility requirement of subdivision (2) of
subsection (a) of Section 22.3 of this Act through the transfer of eligibility
from a facility under the same ownership whose operations were discontinued
after 1993 and replaced by the new facility. To qualify for the eligibility
transfer, the owner must submit a written request for the eligibility transfer
to
the Department of Agriculture, must have paid the $500 registration fee for
each
of the years 1991, 1992, and 1993 for the original facility, and completed all
closure requirements contained in rules promulgated by the Department of
Agriculture. Upon receipt of the eligibility transfer request, the Department
of
Agriculture shall review the submittal and all related containment facility
files and shall notify the owner whether eligibility can be transferred.
(c) An agrichemical facility located within the State of Illinois that was
in existence during the years 1991, 1992, and 1993 but did not pay the
registration fee of $500 per year per agrichemical facility for those years may
make payment of the unremitted balance to the Department of Agriculture for
deposit into the
Agrichemical Incident Response Trust Fund to meet the eligibility requirement
of
subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of Section 22.3 of this Act. The payment
must be received by the Department of Agriculture prior to an incident for
which reimbursement
is sought under Section 22.3 to qualify for eligibility under subdivision (2)
of subsection (a) of Section 22.3.
(d) The moneys collected under this Section shall be deposited into the
Agrichemical Incident Response Trust Fund.
(e) For purposes of this Section, "agrichemical facility" means a site:
(1) used for commercial purposes,
(A) where bulk pesticides are stored in a single |