Bill Text: IL HB1707 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines the terms "anaerobic digester", "anaerobic digestion", and "food". Deletes provisions that exempted certain composting facilities from regulation as a pollution control facility. Creates exemptions from the definition of "pollution control facility" for (i) the portion of a site or facility that is used for anaerobic digestion and (ii) the portion of a site or facility that is used to process food scrap at a food scrap processing facility. Provides for moneys that are appropriated from the Solid Waste Management Fund to the Agency in certain years for solid waste management activities to be segregated into a separate account for use by the Prairie Research Institute of the University of Illinois for the costs of implementing the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Updates requirements for each county waste management plan's recycling program with respect to food scrap collection programs. Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Provides that a person that generates more than the applicable regulatory threshold of food and food scrap and that is located within 20 miles, prior to July 1, 2035, or 25 miles, on and after July 1, 2035, of an Agency-permitted composting facility or anaerobic digester that accepts food scrap and that has the permitted capacity to accept food scrap shall, among other things, source separate food and food scrap from other solid waste and either arrange for the transfer of the food or food scrap to a location that manages food and food scrap in a manner consistent with the food and food scrap management hierarchy set forth in the Act or manage the food and food scrap on site in accordance with other applicable State and local laws and rules. Grants the Agency rulemaking powers. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-11 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1707 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1707-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1707 Introduced , by Rep. Joyce Mason SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 5/22.40c new
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides gas collection and control system requirements for municipal solid waste landfills, including requirements for gas to be collected from each area in which solid waste has been in place for at least one year, for gas to be drawn toward the gas control devices, for a gas collection and control system to be installed within 12 months of reaching certain thresholds, for gas collection and control design plans to provide for alternative preliminary measures, and for the methane destruction efficiency of flared systems to reach 99%.
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A BILL FOR
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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
adding Section 22.40c as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/22.40c new)
Sec. 22.40c. Gas Collection and Control System
Requirements. Each owner or operator of a municipal solid
waste landfill that meets 40 CFR 60.33c and relevant federal
regulatory requirements to install a gas collection and
control system must fulfill the following requirements:
(1) The owner or operator must, in the case of an
active municipal solid waste landfill, operate the gas
collection and control system so that gas is collected
from each area, cell, or group of cells in the municipal
solid waste landfill in which solid waste has been in
place for one year or more.
(2) The owner or operator must estimate when the
landfill will reach the thresholds identified in 40 CFR
60.33c and relevant federal regulatory requirements
requiring installation of a gas collection and control
system, install a gas collection and control system within
12 months after that estimated date, and operate the gas

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collection and control system in accordance with 40 CFR
60.34f.
(3) The gas collection and control design plan must
provide for whether other measures to control gas,
including horizontal collectors, connections to the
leachate control system, and electric systems that will
eventually connect to control devices, the vacuum system,
and other gas collection and control system elements, can
be installed before the full gas collection and control
system is required.
(4) The gas collection and control system, if it uses
a flare, must achieve a methane destruction efficiency of
at least 99% by weight.
(5) The gas collection system must be designed and
operated to draw all the gas toward the gas control device
or devices.