90th General Assembly
Summary of HB2164
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House Sponsors:
NOVAK-FEIGENHOLTZ.

Senate Sponsors:
MAHAR-RAUSCHENBERGER

Short description: 
EPA-FLOURESCENT LAMP RECYCLNG                                              

Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
        Amends the Environmental Protection Act to  provide  that,  until      
   the  Pollution  Control Board adopts rules designating flourescent and      
   high intensity discharge lamps as universal  waste,  used  flourescent      
   and  high  intensity discharge lamps may be managed under alternative,      
   specified conditions. Requires the Illinois  Environmental  Protection      
   Agency  to  seek  authorization  from  the United States Environmental      
   Protection Agency to implement the provisions of the  Universal  Waste      
   Rule. Effective immediately.                                                
          FISCAL IMPACT NOTE (Pollution Control Bd.)                           
          There will be no fiscal impact on the PCB.                           
          STATE MANDATES FISCAL NOTE                                           
          HB 2164 fails to create a State mandate.                             
        SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1.                                                
        Deletes  the  requirement   that   the   Illinois   Environmental      
   Protection   Agency   seek   authorization   from  the  United  States      
   Environmental Protection Agency to implement  the  provisions  of  the      
   Universal  Waste  Rule.   Instead, provides  for  the  designation  of      
   hazardous  fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamps as universal      
   waste and requires the Pollution Control Board to adopt rules for  the      
   management  of  those  lamps as universal waste within 240 days of the      
   effective date of the amendatory Act.                                       
        SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 2.                                                
          Adds reference to:                                                   
          New Act                                                              
          30 ILCS 105/5.449 new                                                
          215 ILCS 5/2.5 new                                                   
        Creates the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund  Act  to      
   support    remediation  of drycleaning solvent releases at drycleaning      
   facilities through a reimbursement program for remediation of existing      
   releases and an insurance program for prospective releases.    Creates      
   the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Council to administer      
   the  Act.  Authorizes  civil  and  criminal  penalties.  Establishes a      
   quantity-based drycleaning solvent tax  to  be  imposed  on  a  person      
   purchasing  drycleaning  solvent  for  use  at the facility. Imposes a      
   one-time drycleaning solvent floor stock tax to be assessed on January      
   1, 1998. Requires owners or operators of dry  cleaning  facilities  to      
   obtain   a  license  under  the  Act  in  order  to  be  eligible  for      
   reimbursement and insurance  benefits  under  the  Act.   Repeals  the      
   license  fee  and  sale  and  transfer fee provisions on July 1, 2007.      
   Prohibits  a  person  from  engaging  in  the  business   of   selling      
   drycleaning solvent on and after January 1, 1998 without a certificate      
   of  registration  issued  by the Department of Revenue. Provides for a      
   transfer of $375,000 from the General Revenue Fund to  the  Drycleaner      
   Environmental  Response  Trust  Fund,  which, after 6 months, shall be      
   transferred back to the General Revenue Fund. Amends the State Finance      
   Act to add the Drycleaner Environmental Response  Trust  Fund.  Amends      
   the  Illinois  Insurance  Code  to exempt the Drycleaner Environmental      
   Response Trust Fund from the provisions of the Code.                        
        SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 3.                                                
          Adds reference to:                                                   
          415 ILCS 5/3.45                 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1003.45       
          415 ILCS 5/22.48 new                                                 
          415 ILCS 5/44                   from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1044          
        Further amends  the  Environmental  Protection  Act  to  redefine      
   "special  waste".  Provides that certain industrial process waste  and      
   pollution control waste shall be managed as special waste  unless  the      
   generator  provides  a  specified  certification.  Sets forth criminal      
   penalties for falsely certifying that waste is not special waste.           
        SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 4.                                                
        Deletes a provision  in  the  Drycleaner  Environmental  Response      
   Trust Fund Act stating that hearings concerning matters covered by the      
   Act shall be heard by the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund      
   Council pursuant to rules adopted by the Council.                           
        CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 1.                                     
        Recommends that the House concur in S-ams 1, 2, 3 and 4.               
        Recommends that the bill be further amended as follows:                
        Further  amends  the  Environmental  Protection Act to create the      
   criminal offense of Criminal Disposal of Waste and set forth penalties      
   for conviction  under  that  offense.   Provides  that  a  person  who      
   knowingly  violates a provision of the federal Procedures for Asbestos      
   Emission Control is guilty of a Class 4 felony.                             
 
Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 90-0502

   Last action date: 97-08-19

           Location: House

 Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE -   0     SENATE -   4


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