Bill Text: IL HB4299 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, no person may knowingly dispose of a used oil filter in a manner that is intended for collection and disposal at a landfill. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4299 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB4299-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB4299 Introduced , by Rep. Elaine Nekritz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 5/21.6 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1021.6
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, no person may knowingly dispose of a used oil filter in a manner that is intended for collection and disposal at a landfill. 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
changing Section 21.6 as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/21.6) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1021.6)
Sec. 21.6. Materials disposal ban.
(a) Beginning July 1, 1996, no person may knowingly mix
liquid used oil with any municipal waste that is intended for
collection and disposal at a landfill.
(b) Beginning July 1, 1996, no owner or operator of a
sanitary landfill shall accept for final disposal liquid used
oil that is discernible in the course of prudent business
operation.
(b-5) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 99th General Assembly, no person may knowingly
dispose of a used oil filter in a manner that is intended for
collection and disposal at a landfill.
(c) For purposes of this Section, "liquid used oil" does
not include used oil filters, rags, absorbent material used to
collect spilled oil or other materials incidentally
contaminated with used oil, or empty containers which
previously contained virgin oil, re-refined oil, or used oil.

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(d) The Agency and the Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity shall investigate the manner in which liquid used
oil is currently being utilized and potential prospects for
future use.
(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.