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(415 ILCS 5/) Environmental Protection Act.

415 ILCS 5/22.60
    (415 ILCS 5/22.60)
    (For Section repeal see subsection (e))
    Sec. 22.60. Pilot project for Will County and Grundy County pyrolysis or gasification facility.
    (a) As used in this Section:
    "Plastics" means polystyrene or any other synthetic organic polymer that can be molded into shape under heat and pressure and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form.
    "Plastics gasification facility" means a manufacturing facility that:
        (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have

been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a gasification feedstock; and
        (2) uses heat in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere to

process the feedstock into fuels, chemicals, or chemical feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products.
    "Plastics pyrolysis facility" means a manufacturing facility that:
        (1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have

been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a pyrolysis feedstock; and
        (2) uses heat in the absence of oxygen to process the

uncontaminated plastics into fuels, chemicals, or chemical feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products.
    (b) Provided that permitting and construction has commenced prior to July 1, 2025, a pilot project allowing for a pyrolysis or gasification facility in accordance with this Section is permitted for a locally zoned and approved site in either Will County or Grundy County.
    (c) To the extent allowed by federal law, uncontaminated plastics that have been processed into a feedstock meeting feedstock specifications for a plastics gasification facility or plastics pyrolysis facility, and that are further processed by such a facility and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products, are considered recycled and are not subject to regulation as waste.
    (d) The Agency may propose to the Board for adoption, and the Board may adopt, rules establishing standards for materials accepted as feedstocks by plastics gasification facilities and plastics pyrolysis facilities, rules establishing standards for the management of feedstocks at plastics gasification facilities and plastics pyrolysis facilities, and any other rules, as may be necessary to implement and administer this Section.
    (e) If permitting and construction for the pilot project under subsection (b) has not commenced by July 1, 2025, this Section is repealed.
(Source: P.A. 101-141, eff. 7-1-20; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)

415 ILCS 5/22.61
    (415 ILCS 5/22.61)
    Sec. 22.61. Regulation of bisphenol A in business transaction paper.
    (a) For purposes of this Section, "thermal paper" means paper with bisphenol A added to the coating.
    (b) Beginning January 1, 2020, no person shall manufacture, for sale in this State, thermal paper.
    (c) No person shall distribute or use any thermal paper for the making of business or banking records, including, but not limited to, records of receipts, credits, withdrawals, deposits, or credit or debit card transactions. This subsection shall not apply to thermal paper that was manufactured prior to January 1, 2020.
    (d) The prohibition in subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to paper containing recycled material.
(Source: P.A. 101-457, eff. 8-23-19; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)

415 ILCS 5/22.62
    (415 ILCS 5/22.62)
    Sec. 22.62. TRI-PFAS; incineration.
    (a) As used in this Section:
        "Incineration" includes, but is not limited to,

burning, combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, or the use of an acid recovery furnace or oxidizer, ore roaster, cement kiln, lightweight aggregate kiln, industrial furnace, boiler, or process heater. "Incineration" does not include the use of a thermal oxidizer as a pollution control or resource recovery device at a facility that is using perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances or chemicals containing perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances.
        "Toxic Release Inventory Perfluoroalkyl and

Polyfluoroalkyl Substances" or "TRI-PFAS" means the chemicals on the list of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances set forth in the USEPA's Toxic Release Inventory rules, developed under Section 313 of the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) and codified in 40 CFR 372.65, excluding liquid or gaseous fluorocarbon or chlorofluorocarbon products used chiefly as refrigerants.
    (b) No person shall dispose of any TRI-PFAS by incineration, including, but not limited to, aqueous film-forming foam that contains TRI-PFAS. The Agency may propose, and the Board may adopt, any rules it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this Section.
    (c) Nothing in this Section applies to the incineration of (i) landfill gas from the decomposition of waste that may contain any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances at a permitted sanitary landfill, (ii) landfill gas in a landfill gas recovery facility that is located at a sanitary landfill, (iii) waste at a permitted hospital, medical, and infectious waste incinerator that meets the requirements of Subpart HHH of 40 CFR Part 62, Subpart Ec of 40 CFR Part 60, or the Board-adopted State Plan requirements for hospital, medical, and infectious waste incinerators, as applicable, or (iv) sludges, biosolids, or other solids or by-products generated at or by a municipal wastewater treatment plant or facility.
(Source: P.A. 102-1048, eff. 6-8-22.)

415 ILCS 5/22.63
    (415 ILCS 5/22.63)
    Sec. 22.63. Rules for placement of limestone residual materials. The Board shall adopt rules for the placement of limestone residual materials generated from the treatment of drinking water by a municipal utility in an underground limestone mine located in whole or in part within the municipality that operates the municipal utility. The rules shall be consistent with the Board's Underground Injection Control regulations for Class V wells, provided that the rules shall allow for the limestone residual materials to be delivered to and placed in the mine by means other than an injection well. Rules adopted pursuant to this Section shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions and requirements of Title VII of this Act and the procedures for rulemaking in Section 5-35 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, provided that a municipality proposing rules pursuant to this Section is not required to include in its proposal a petition signed by at least 200 persons as required under subsection (a) of Section 28. Rules adopted pursuant to this Section shall not be considered a part of the State Underground Injection Control program established under this Act.
    As used in this Section, "limestone residual material" means limestone residual generated from the treatment of drinking water at a publicly-owned drinking water treatment plant.
(Source: P.A. 103-333, eff. 1-1-24.)

415 ILCS 5/Tit. VI

    (415 ILCS 5/Tit. VI heading) TITLE VI: NOISE