Bill Text: IL HB5118 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the Sludge Control Act. Provides that person may not: (1) apply to or spread on any land in the State sludge generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, compost material that included in its production sludge generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant or septage, or any other product or material that is intended for use as a fertilizer, soil amendment, topsoil replacement, or mulch or for other similar agricultural purpose that is derived from or contains sludge or septage; or (2) sell or distribute in the State compost material that included in its production sludge or septage or any other product or material that is intended for use as a fertilizer, soil amendment, topsoil replacement, or mulch or for other similar agricultural purposes that is derived from or contains sludge or septage. Sets forth exceptions. Defines terms. Repeals a provision in the Environmental Protection Act regarding the regulation of farm land sludge application.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5118 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB5118-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning safety.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Sludge | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Control Act.
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| 6 | Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | "Septage" means the liquid and solid material pumped from | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | a septic tank, cesspool, or similar domestic sewage treatment | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | system, or from a holding tank, when the system is cleaned or | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | maintained. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | "Sludge" means any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | air pollution control facility or any other such waste having | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | similar characteristics and effects.
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| 16 | Section 10. Prohibitions on land application of sludge and | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | sale and distribution of compost and other agricultural | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | products and materials containing sludge and septage. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | except as provided in subsection (b), a person may not: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | (1) apply to or spread on any land in the State: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | (A) sludge; | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | (B) compost material that included in its | ||||||
| 2 | production sludge or septage; or | ||||||
| 3 | (C) any other product or material that is intended | ||||||
| 4 | for use as a fertilizer, soil amendment, topsoil | ||||||
| 5 | replacement, or mulch or for other similar | ||||||
| 6 | agricultural purpose that is derived from or contains | ||||||
| 7 | sludge or septage; or | ||||||
| 8 | (2) sell or distribute in the State: | ||||||
| 9 | (A) compost material that included in its | ||||||
| 10 | production sludge or septage; or | ||||||
| 11 | (B) any other product or material that is intended | ||||||
| 12 | for use as a fertilizer, soil amendment, topsoil | ||||||
| 13 | replacement, or mulch or for other similar | ||||||
| 14 | agricultural purposes that is derived from or contains | ||||||
| 15 | sludge or septage. | ||||||
| 16 | (b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) do not apply to: | ||||||
| 17 | (1) the disposal or placement at a solid waste | ||||||
| 18 | landfill of any of the materials that are prohibited from | ||||||
| 19 | application, spreading, sale, or distribution by this | ||||||
| 20 | Section; | ||||||
| 21 | (2) the land application of or the sale or | ||||||
| 22 | distribution of compost material or other agricultural | ||||||
| 23 | product or material derived from or containing residuals | ||||||
| 24 | generated as a result of the processing or cultivation of | ||||||
| 25 | food, food waste, crops, or vegetative material, the | ||||||
| 26 | brewing of malt liquor, the fermenting of wine or hard | ||||||
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| 1 | cider, or the distilling of spirits, including, but not | ||||||
| 2 | limited to, blueberries, apples, grapes, potatoes, | ||||||
| 3 | seaweed, fish and seafood, and spent grain or malt, as | ||||||
| 4 | long as such residuals are not mixed with sludge, septage, | ||||||
| 5 | sewage, or sanitary wastewater prior to or during land | ||||||
| 6 | application or the production of the compost material or | ||||||
| 7 | other agricultural product or material; or | ||||||
| 8 | (3) the land application of or the sale or | ||||||
| 9 | distribution of compost material or other agricultural | ||||||
| 10 | product or material derived from or containing sludge | ||||||
| 11 | resulting from the production of precipitated calcium | ||||||
| 12 | carbonate.
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