Bill Text: IL HB1616 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires permitting and construction to commence prior to July 1, 2027 (rather than 2025) before a pilot project allowing for a pyrolysis or gasification facility is permitted for a locally zoned and approved site in either Will County or Grundy County. Makes a conforming change to language regarding repealing the provisions. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1616 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1616-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 Environmental Protection Act is amended by
changing Section 22.60 as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/22.60)
(For Section repeal see subsection (e))
Sec. 22.60. Pilot project for Will County and Grundy
County pyrolysis or gasification facility.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Plastics" means polystyrene or any other synthetic
organic polymer that can be molded into shape under heat and
pressure and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form.
"Plastics gasification facility" means a manufacturing
facility that:
(1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have
been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a
feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a
gasification feedstock; and
(2) uses heat in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere to
process the feedstock into fuels, chemicals, or chemical
feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in
the form of raw materials or products.

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"Plastics pyrolysis facility" means a manufacturing
facility that:
(1) receives only uncontaminated plastics that have
been processed prior to receipt at the facility into a
feedstock meeting the facility's specifications for a
pyrolysis feedstock; and
(2) uses heat in the absence of oxygen to process the
uncontaminated plastics into fuels, chemicals, or chemical
feedstocks that are returned to the economic mainstream in
the form of raw materials or products.
(b) Provided that permitting and construction has
commenced prior to July 1, 2027 2025, a pilot project allowing
for a pyrolysis or gasification facility in accordance with
this Section is permitted for a locally zoned and approved
site in either Will County or Grundy County.
(c) To the extent allowed by federal law, uncontaminated
plastics that have been processed into a feedstock meeting
feedstock specifications for a plastics gasification facility
or plastics pyrolysis facility, and that are further processed
by such a facility and returned to the economic mainstream in
the form of raw materials or products, are considered recycled
and are not subject to regulation as waste.
(d) The Agency may propose to the Board for adoption, and
the Board may adopt, rules establishing standards for
materials accepted as feedstocks by plastics gasification
facilities and plastics pyrolysis facilities, rules

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establishing standards for the management of feedstocks at
plastics gasification facilities and plastics pyrolysis
facilities, and any other rules, as may be necessary to
implement and administer this Section.
(e) If permitting and construction for the pilot project
under subsection (b) has not commenced by July 1, 2027 2025,
this Section is repealed.
(Source: P.A. 101-141, eff. 7-1-20; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.