Bill Text: IL SB3279 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings Control Act. Provides that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security may approve a request for license termination following adoption and implantation by the municipality or county in which the material milling facility is located of one or more ordinances restricting the use of groundwater on the property that has been licensed for the milling of source material and any property downgradient from that property if the ordinance ensures public health and safety and is in effect at the time of license termination. Requires the ordinances adopted for the purpose of terminating a license to remain in effect until the Agency approves in writing that the ordinances are no longer needed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-07 - Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate [SB3279 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3279-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings Control
Act is amended by changing Section 32 as follows:
(420 ILCS 42/32)
Sec. 32. Limitations on groundwater and property use.
(a) In connection with the decommissioning of a source
material milling facility or the termination of the facility's
license, the Agency shall have the authority to adopt by rule,
or impose by order or license amendment or condition,
restrictions on the use of groundwater on any property that
has been licensed for the milling of source material and any
property downgradient from the property that has been licensed
for the milling of source material where the groundwater
impacted by a licensed facility has constituents above
naturally-occurring levels and is in excess of the groundwater
standards enforceable by the Agency.
(a-5) The Agency may approve a request for license
termination following adoption and implementation by the
municipality or county in which the material milling facility
is located of one or more ordinances restricting the use of
groundwater on the property that has been licensed for the

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milling of source material and any property downgradient from
that property, provided that the ordinances are determined by
the Agency to provide sufficient protection of public health
and safety and the ordinances are in effect at the time of
license termination.
(a-6) For Agency actions based upon subsection (a-5), the
ordinances in effect at the time of license termination shall
remain in effect until the Agency expressly approves in
writing that the ordinances are no longer required.
(b) In connection with the decommissioning of a source
material milling facility or the termination of the facility's
license, the Agency shall have the authority to adopt by rule,
or impose by order or license amendment or condition,
restrictions on property that has been licensed for the
milling of source material where the soil has constituents
above naturally-occurring levels to limit or prohibit:
(1) the construction of basements or other similar
below-ground structures, other than footings or pilings,
on any portion of the property where elevated levels of
the constituents are present in the soil; and
(2) the excavation of soil from a portion of the
property where elevated levels of the constituents are
present in the excavated soil, unless the excavated soil
is (i) disposed of in a facility licensed or permitted to
dispose of that soil or (ii) returned to the approximate
depth from which it was excavated and covered with an

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