Bill Text: IL HB2491 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that, 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. Provides that the Environmental Protection Agency may propose to the Pollution Control 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 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 the amendatory Act's provisions.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-26 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0141 [HB2491 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2491-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2491 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence Walsh, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 5/22.59 new
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that to the extent allowed by federal law, uncontaminated plastics that meet feedstock specifications for a gasification facility or pyrolysis facility, and that are further processed by a gasification facility or pyrolysis facility and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of crude oil, diesel, gasoline, home heating oil or other fuels, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, chemical feedstocks, diesel and gasoline blendstocks, or other raw materials or intermediate or final products, are considered recycled and are not subject to regulation as waste. Defines terms for these provisions. Effective immediately.
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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 22.59 as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/22.59 new)
Sec. 22.59. Regulation of uncontaminated plastics.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Gasification facility" means a manufacturing facility
that:
(1) receives uncontaminated plastics or nonrecycled
feedstocks that meet the facility's specifications for a
gasification feedstock; and
(2) uses heat in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere to
process the feedstock into crude oil, diesel, gasoline,
home heating oil or other fuels, chemicals, waxes,
lubricants, chemical feedstocks, diesel and gasoline
blendstocks, or other raw materials or intermediate or
final products that are returned to the economic mainstream
in the form of raw materials, products, or fuels.
A "gasification facility" is not a pollution control
facility, a solid waste treatment facility, or a solid waste
incineration facility.

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"Nonrecycled feedstocks" means one or more of the following
materials, derived from post-use materials, that has been
source separated or processed so that it may be used as
feedstock in a gasification facility:
(1) uncontaminated plastics; and
(2) materials that have been processed into a fuel or
feedstock for which the United States Environmental
Protection Agency has made a non-waste determination under
40 CFR 241.3(c) or otherwise determined are not wastes or
for which the board has made a non-waste determination.
"Pyrolysis facility" means a manufacturing facility that:
(1) receives uncontaminated plastics that meet the
facility's specifications for a pyrolysis feedstock; and
(2) uses heat in the absence of oxygen to process the
uncontaminated plastics into crude oil, diesel, gasoline,
home heating oil or other fuels, chemicals, waxes,
lubricants, chemical feedstocks, diesel and gasoline
blendstocks, or other raw materials or intermediate or
final products that are returned to the economic mainstream
in the form of raw materials, products, or fuels.
A "pyrolysis facility" is not a pollution control facility,
a solid waste treatment facility, or a solid waste incineration
facility.
"Uncontaminated plastics" means synthetic organic polymers
that have been molded into shape under heat and pressure and
then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form and have been

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source separated at least once after use by a household,
community, commercial or other activity. "Uncontaminated
plastics" may contain incidental contaminants or impurities,
such as paper labels or metal rings. "Uncontaminated plastics"
are not waste.
(b) A gasification facility or pyrolysis facility is
subject to regulation as a manufacturing facility and shall
comply with relevant and applicable regulations relating to its
storm water, water discharges, air emissions, and waste
generation.
(c) To the extent allowed by federal law, uncontaminated
plastics that meet feedstock specifications for a gasification
facility or pyrolysis facility, and that are further processed
by a gasification facility or pyrolysis facility and returned
to the economic mainstream in the form of crude oil, diesel,
gasoline, home heating oil or other fuels, chemicals, waxes,
lubricants, chemical feedstocks, diesel and gasoline
blendstocks, or other raw materials or intermediate or final
products, are considered recycled and are not subject to
regulation as waste.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.