Bill Text: IL HB3132 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Provides that a county's revised solid waste management plan may provide for the specified collection of residential food scrap and may include a plan for access to source separated collection of residential food scrap by all county residents within 5 years. Specifies information that shall be included in revised waste management plans. Effective immediately.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3132 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB3132-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning safety.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | (415 ILCS 15/5) (from Ch. 85, par. 5955)
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| 7 | Sec. 5.
(a) Prior to adopting a waste management plan for | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | submission
to the Agency, the county shall form an advisory | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | committee, which shall
include representatives from | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | municipalities within the county, citizen
organizations, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | industry, the private solid waste management industry
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| 12 | operating within the county, local recyclers and any other | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | persons deemed
appropriate by the county. The advisory | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | committee shall review the plan
during its preparation, make | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | suggestions, and propose any changes it believes
appropriate.
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| 16 | (b) The county shall provide written notice to all | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | municipalities and
interested members of the public when plan | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | development begins and shall
provide periodic written progress | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | reports to such entities concerning the
preparation of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | plan.
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| 21 | (c) Prior to adoption by the governing body of the county, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | the county
shall submit copies of the proposed plan for review | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | and comment to the
Agency, all municipalities within the | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | county, all areawide planning
agencies, and the county health | ||||||
| 2 | department. The county shall also make the
proposed plan | ||||||
| 3 | available for public review and comment. The period for
review | ||||||
| 4 | and comment shall be 90 days. The county shall hold at least | ||||||
| 5 | one
public hearing on the proposed plan during this period. The | ||||||
| 6 | plan
subsequently submitted to the governing body of the county | ||||||
| 7 | for adoption
shall be accompanied by a document containing | ||||||
| 8 | written responses to
substantive comments made during the | ||||||
| 9 | comment period.
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| 10 | (d) The governing body of the county shall adopt a plan | ||||||
| 11 | within 60 days
from the end of the public comment period. | ||||||
| 12 | Within 10 days of adoption,
the plan shall be submitted to the | ||||||
| 13 | Agency for review.
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| 14 | (e) Each county waste management plan shall be updated and | ||||||
| 15 | reviewed
every 5 years, and any necessary or appropriate | ||||||
| 16 | revisions shall be
submitted to the Agency for review and | ||||||
| 17 | comment. Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act | ||||||
| 18 | of the 100th General Assembly, a county's revised solid waste | ||||||
| 19 | management plan may provide for the separate collection and | ||||||
| 20 | composting of residential food scrap, and may include a plan | ||||||
| 21 | for access to source separated collection of food scrap by all | ||||||
| 22 | county residents within 5 years. Revised solid waste management | ||||||
| 23 | plans shall include information about the capacity and | ||||||
| 24 | availability of infrastructure for residential food scrap | ||||||
| 25 | composting and anaerobic digestion of food scrap within the | ||||||
| 26 | county.
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| 1 | (Source: P.A. 89-443, eff. 7-1-96.)
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| 2 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 3 | becoming law.
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