Public Act 100-0499

HB3656 Enrolled LRB100 06995 MJP 17048 b

AN ACT concerning safety.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Flue

Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Task Force Act.

Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:

"FGD" means flue gas desulfurization and other

technologies that can be used to lower sulfur dioxide

emissions.

"Task Force" means the FGD Task Force

Section 10. The FGD Task Force.

(a) The FGD Task Force is hereby created to increase the

amount of Illinois Basin coal use in generation units. The FGD

Task Force shall identify and evaluate the costs, benefits, and

barriers of new and modified FGD, or other post-combustion

sulfur dioxide emission control technologies, and other

capital improvements, that would be necessary for generation

units to comply with the sulfur dioxide National Ambient Air

Quality Standards (NAAQS) while improving the ability of those

generation units to meet the effluent limitation guidelines

(ELGs) for wastewater discharges and enhancing the

marketability of the generation units' FGD byproducts.

(b) The membership of the Task Force shall be as follows:

(1) Two members of the Senate appointed by the

President of the Senate.

(2) Two members of the Senate appointed by the Minority

Leader of the Senate.

(3) Two members of the House of appointed by the

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

(4) Two members of the House of Representatives

appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of

Representatives.

(5) Three members appointed by the Governor, two with

expertise in Illinois coal, coal mining, emission

reduction, or energy production; and one representative of

an electricity generator that owns multiple coal-fueled

electric generation plants with FGD or similar

technologies.

(6) The Director of Natural Resources, or his or her

designee.

(7) The Director of the Environmental Protection

Agency, or his or her designee.

(c) Task Force members shall serve without compensation but

shall be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred in performing

their duties.

(d) The Task Force shall report their findings and

recommendations to the General Assembly by December 31, 2017.

Section 15. Administrative support. The Department of

Natural Resources and the Illinois Environmental Protection

Agency shall provide administrative and other support to the

Task Force.

Section 20. Repeal. This Act is repealed on January 1,

2019.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

becoming law.