Bill Amendment: IL HB5285 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly

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Bill Title: SHEFFIELD WASTE FUND

Status: 2026-06-12 - Sent to the Governor [HB5285 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB5285-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Rita Mayfield

Filed: 3/24/2026

 

 

 

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5285
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5285 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Radioactive Waste Storage Act is amended
by changing Section 6 as follows:
(420 ILCS 35/6) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 230.6)
Sec. 6. Radioactive waste sites; acquisition and funding
of maintenance.
(a) It is recognized by the General Assembly that any site
used for the concentration and storage of radioactive waste
material will represent a continuing and perpetual
responsibility in the interests of the public health, safety
and general welfare, and that the same must ultimately be
reposed in a sovereign government without regard for the
existence or nonexistence of any particular agency,
instrumentality, department, division or officer thereof. In

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all instances lands, buildings and grounds which are to be
designated as sites for the concentration and storage of
radioactive waste materials shall be acquired in fee simple
absolute and dedicated in perpetuity to such purpose. All
rights, title and interest in, of, and to any radioactive
waste materials accepted by IEMA-OHS the Agency for permanent
storage at such facilities, shall upon acceptance become the
property of the State and shall be in all respects
administered, controlled, and disposed of, including transfer
by sale, lease, loan or otherwise, by IEMA-OHS the Agency in
the name of the State. All fees received pursuant to contracts
or agreements entered into by IEMA-OHS the Agency shall be
deposited in the State Treasury and shall be set apart in a
special fund to be known as the " Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Facility Operation Radioactive Waste Site Perpetual Care
Fund". Moneys Monies deposited into in the Low-Level
Radioactive Waste Facility Operation Fund fund shall be
expended by IEMA-OHS the Agency to monitor and maintain the
site as required to protect the public health and safety on a
continuing and perpetual basis.
(b) All payments received by IEMA-OHS (formerly the
Department of Nuclear Safety) the Department of Nuclear Safety
(now the Agency) pursuant to the settlement agreement entered
May 25, 1988, in the matter of the People of the State of
Illinois, et al. v. Teledyne, Inc., et al. (No. 78 MR 25,
Circuit Court, Bureau County, Illinois) shall be held in the

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Sheffield February 1982 Agreed Order Fund by the State
Treasurer separate and apart from all public moneys or funds
of the State, and shall be used only as provided in such
settlement agreement. Interest earned by the investment or
deposit of moneys accumulated in the Sheffield February 1982
Agreed Order Fund shall be deposited into the Sheffield
February 1982 Agreed Order Fund for the continued maintenance
of the Sheffield Low-Level Radioactive Waste Site and the
surrounding buffer zone to protect the public health and
safety on a continuing and perpetual basis.
(Source: P.A. 103-569, eff. 6-1-24.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".