Bill Text: IL HB5261 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Requires the Director of the Environmental Protection Agency to seek negotiations with each state that borders Lake Michigan to establish a notification policy under which the states will notify one another when permitting new sources of water pollution or increased levels of pollution into Lake Michigan. Requires the Director to report to the General Assembly no later than January 1, 2019 on the status of these negotiations. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5261 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB5261-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB5261 Introduced , by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
615 ILCS 5/14b new
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Requires the Director of the Environmental Protection Agency to seek negotiations with each state that borders Lake Michigan to establish a notification policy under which the states will notify one another when permitting new sources of water pollution or increased levels of pollution into Lake Michigan. Requires the Director to report to the General Assembly no later than January 1, 2019 on the status of these negotiations. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning waterways.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act is amended by
adding Section 14b as follows:
(615 ILCS 5/14b new)
Sec. 14b. Negotiations for interstate pollution
notification policy.
(a) For purposes of this Section:
"Agency" has the meaning given to that term under
Section 1-20 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
but shall only include an agency under the jurisdiction of
the Governor.
"Agency head" has the meaning given to that term under
Section 1-25 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
but shall only include an agency head under the
jurisdiction of the Governor.
"Rule" has the meaning given to that term under Section
1-70 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
(b) The Director of the Environmental Protection Agency
shall seek negotiations with each state that borders Lake
Michigan to establish a notification policy under which the
states will notify one another when permitting new sources of

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water pollution or increased levels of pollution into Lake
Michigan.
(c) The Director must report to the General Assembly no
later than January 1, 2019 on the status of these negotiations.
(d) Notwithstanding any other rulemaking authority that
may exist, neither the Governor nor any agency or agency head
under the jurisdiction of the Governor has any authority to
make or adopt rules to implement or enforce the provisions of
this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly. If, however,
the Governor believes that rules are necessary to implement or
enforce the provisions of this amendatory Act of the 100th
General Assembly, the Governor may suggest rules to the General
Assembly by filing them with the Clerk of the House and the
Secretary of the Senate and by requesting that the General
Assembly authorize rulemaking by law, enact those suggested
rules into law, or take any other appropriate action in the
General Assembly's discretion. Nothing contained in this
amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly shall be
interpreted to grant rulemaking authority under any other
Illinois statute if authority is not otherwise explicitly
given.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.