Bill Text: IL HB0688 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Provides that no person, State agency, or unit of local government shall materially reduce, demolish, materially impair, or remove in whole or in part a structure located within 50 feet of the historic district commonly known as Graue Mill without approval of the Graue Mill Intergovernmental Oversight Board. Creates and provides for the membership of the Graue Mill Intergovernmental Oversight Board. Provides that no structure that was built, in whole or in part, using funds from this State shall be demolished without first securing advance written approval from the State agency supplying the funding. Provides that, if that agency no longer exists or the proper agency cannot be determined, then notice shall be given to the Governor, but only upon the approval of the State Representative and State Senator for the area where the structure is located. Provides that nothing in the new provisions shall prevent the party responsible for a structure from engaging in ordinary and customary maintenance and repair of the structure, including dredging around the structure, so long as the process does not materially impair or destabilize the structure. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-27 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0688 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB0688-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB0688 Introduced , by Rep. Deanne M. Mazzochi SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
615 ILCS 5/29b new
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Provides that no person, State agency, or unit of local government shall materially reduce, demolish, materially impair, or remove in whole or in part a structure located within 50 feet of the historic district commonly known as Graue Mill without approval of the Graue Mill Intergovernmental Oversight Board. Creates and provides for the membership of the Graue Mill Intergovernmental Oversight Board. Provides that no structure that was built, in whole or in part, using funds from this State shall be demolished without first securing advance written approval from the State agency supplying the funding. Provides that, if that agency no longer exists or the proper agency cannot be determined, then notice shall be given to the Governor, but only upon the approval of the State Representative and State Senator for the area where the structure is located. Provides that nothing in the new provisions shall prevent the party responsible for a structure from engaging in ordinary and customary maintenance and repair of the structure, including dredging around the structure, so long as the process does not materially impair or destabilize the structure. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act is amended
by adding Section 29b as follows:
(615 ILCS 5/29b new)
Sec. 29b. Modification of certain structures associated
with Graue Mill.
(a) As used in this Section, "structure" means a dike,
dam, weir, barrage, or man-made public works or private
improvement that directs or controls stormwater, drainage,
flooding, or erosion within a waterway and is contained fully
within, or is located within 50 feet of, the historic district
commonly known as Graue Mill and located at 3800 York Road in
the Village of Oak Brook.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after
January 1, 2022 or the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 102nd General Assembly, whichever is later, no person,
State agency, or unit of local government shall materially
reduce, demolish, materially impair, or remove in whole or in
part a structure without approval of the Graue Mill
Intergovernmental Oversight Board.
(c) The Graue Mill Intergovernmental Oversight Board is

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created. The Graue Mill Intergovernmental Oversight Board
shall include the following members:
(1) A designee by each owner of property lying within
50 feet of the structure. If the surrounding land is
public space, then a designee of the unit of local
government responsible for the repair and maintenance of
the structure shall be appointed by the head of the unit of
local government.
(2) An appointee from the DuPage County Board, to be
selected by the County Board Chair. The County Board
appointee shall be either: (i) an elected county board
member in whose district the structure is located; or (ii)
an elected county board member who has responsibilities
for stormwater management, at the discretion of the County
Board Chair. If no qualified elected member is willing to
serve, then the appointment may be at the discretion of
the County Board Chair.
(3) An appointee by the head of any municipality that
is geographically located within 1,000 feet of the
structure.
(4) An appointee by any historical district that is
geographically located within 500 feet of the structure.
(5) As ex officio members, a representative from the
Department of Natural Resources; the State Representative
and State Senator encompassing the area where the
structure; and a representative of the County Board of the

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next County downstream from the structure.
(d) No structure that was built, in whole or in part, using
funds from this State shall be demolished without first
securing advance written approval from the State agency
supplying the funding. If that agency no longer exists or the
proper agency cannot be determined, then notice shall be given
to the Governor, but only upon the approval of the State
Representative and State Senator for the area where the
structure is located. Nothing in this Section shall prevent
the party responsible for a structure from engaging in
ordinary and customary maintenance and repair of the
structure, including dredging around the structure, so long as
the process does not materially impair or destabilize the
structure.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.