Bill Text: IL HB5660 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act and the Illinois Coal Technology Development Assistance Act. Removes provisions requiring the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to carry out programs to increase public awareness and education regarding Illinois coal. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5660 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5660-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act and the Illinois Coal Technology Development Assistance Act. Removes provisions requiring the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to carry out programs to increase public awareness and education regarding Illinois coal. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5660 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5660-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
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6 | (20 ILCS 1105/8) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7408)
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7 | Sec. 8. Illinois Coal Development Board.
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8 | (a) There may be established as an advisory board to the
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9 | Department, the Illinois Coal
Development Board, hereinafter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | in this Section called the Board. The Board
shall be composed | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | of the following voting members: the
Director of the
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12 | Department, who shall be Chairman thereof; the Deputy Director | |||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | of the Bureau
of Business Development within the Department of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Commerce and Economic Opportunity; the President of the | |||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | University of Illinois or his or her designee; the Director of
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16 | Natural
Resources or that Director's designee; the Director of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | the Office of Mines and
Minerals within the Department of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Natural Resources;
4 members of the General Assembly (one each | |||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | appointed by the President of
the Senate, the Senate Minority | |||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Leader, the Speaker of the House, and the House
Minority | |||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Leader); and 8
persons appointed by the Governor, with the | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | advice and consent of the Senate,
including representatives of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Illinois
industries that are involved in the extraction, |
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1 | utilization or transportation
of Illinois coal, persons | ||||||
2 | representing financial or banking interests in the
State, and | ||||||
3 | persons experienced in international business and economic
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4 | development. These members shall be chosen from persons of | ||||||
5 | recognized ability
and experience in their designated field. | ||||||
6 | The members
appointed by the Governor shall serve
for terms of | ||||||
7 | 4 years, unless otherwise provided in this subsection. The
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8 | initial terms of the original appointees shall expire on July | ||||||
9 | 1, 1985, except
that the Governor shall designate 3 of the | ||||||
10 | original appointees to serve initial
terms that shall expire on | ||||||
11 | July 1, 1983. The initial term of the member
appointed by the | ||||||
12 | Governor to fill the office created after July 1, 1985 shall
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13 | expire on July 1, 1989. The initial terms of the members | ||||||
14 | appointed by the
Governor to fill the offices created by this | ||||||
15 | amendatory Act of 1993 shall
expire on July 1, 1995, and July | ||||||
16 | 1, 1997, as determined by the Governor.
A member appointed by
a | ||||||
17 | Legislative Leader shall serve for the duration of the General | ||||||
18 | Assembly for
which he or she is appointed, so long as the | ||||||
19 | member remains a member of that
General Assembly.
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20 | The Board may meet at least annually or at the call of the | ||||||
21 | Chairman.
At any time the majority of the Board may petition | ||||||
22 | the Chairman for a meeting
of the Board. Nine members of the | ||||||
23 | Board shall constitute a
quorum. Members of the Board shall be | ||||||
24 | reimbursed for actual and necessary
expenses incurred while | ||||||
25 | performing their duties as members of the Board from
funds | ||||||
26 | appropriated to the Department for such purpose.
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1 | (b) The Board shall provide advice and make recommendations | ||||||
2 | on
the following Department powers and duties:
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3 | (1) To develop an annual agenda which may include but | ||||||
4 | is not limited to
research and methodologies conducted for | ||||||
5 | the purpose of increasing the
utilization of Illinois' coal | ||||||
6 | and other fossil fuel resources, with
emphasis on high | ||||||
7 | sulfur coal, in the following areas: coal extraction,
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8 | preparation and characterization; coal technologies | ||||||
9 | (combustion,
gasification, liquefaction, and related | ||||||
10 | processes); marketing;
public awareness and education, as | ||||||
11 | those terms are used in the Illinois
Coal Technology | ||||||
12 | Development Assistance Act; transportation; procurement of
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13 | sites and issuance of permits; and environmental impacts.
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14 | (2) To support and coordinate Illinois coal research, | ||||||
15 | and to approve
projects consistent with the annual agenda | ||||||
16 | and budget for coal research and
the purposes of this Act | ||||||
17 | and to
approve the annual budget and operating plan
for | ||||||
18 | administration of the Board.
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19 | (3) To promote the coordination of available research | ||||||
20 | information on the
production, preparation, distribution | ||||||
21 | and uses of Illinois coal. The Board
shall advise the | ||||||
22 | existing research institutions within the State on areas
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23 | where research may be necessary.
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24 | (4) To cooperate to the fullest extent possible with | ||||||
25 | State and federal
agencies and departments, independent | ||||||
26 | organizations, and other interested
groups, public and |
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1 | private, for the purposes of promoting Illinois coal
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2 | resources.
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3 | (5) To submit an annual report to the Governor and the | ||||||
4 | General Assembly
outlining the progress and | ||||||
5 | accomplishments made in the year, providing an
accounting | ||||||
6 | of funds received and disbursed, reviewing the status of | ||||||
7 | research
contracts, and furnishing other relevant | ||||||
8 | information.
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9 | (6) To focus on existing coal research efforts in | ||||||
10 | carrying out its
mission; to make use of existing research
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11 | facilities in Illinois or other institutions carrying out | ||||||
12 | research on
Illinois coal; as far as practicable, to make
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13 | maximum
use of
the research facilities available at the | ||||||
14 | Illinois State Geological Survey of the University of | ||||||
15 | Illinois,
the Coal Extraction and Utilization Research | ||||||
16 | Center, the Illinois Coal
Development Park and | ||||||
17 | universities and colleges located within
the State of | ||||||
18 | Illinois; and to create
a
consortium or center which | ||||||
19 | conducts, coordinates and supports coal research
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20 | activities in the State of Illinois. Programmatic | ||||||
21 | activities of such a
consortium or center shall be subject | ||||||
22 | to approval by the Department and shall be
consistent with | ||||||
23 | the purposes of this Act. The Department may
authorize
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24 | expenditure of funds in support of the administrative and | ||||||
25 | programmatic
operations of such a center or consortium | ||||||
26 | consistent with its statutory
authority. Administrative |
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1 | actions undertaken by or for such a center or
consortium | ||||||
2 | shall be subject to the approval of the Department.
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3 | (7) To make a reasonable attempt, before initiating any | ||||||
4 | research under
this Act, to avoid duplication of effort and | ||||||
5 | expense by coordinating the
research efforts among various | ||||||
6 | agencies, departments, universities or
organizations, as | ||||||
7 | the case may be.
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8 | (8) To adopt, amend and repeal rules, regulations and | ||||||
9 | bylaws governing
the Board's organization and conduct of | ||||||
10 | business.
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11 | (9) To authorize the expenditure of monies from the | ||||||
12 | Coal Technology
Development Assistance Fund, the Public | ||||||
13 | Utility Fund and other funds in
the State Treasury | ||||||
14 | appropriated to the Department, consistent with the
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15 | purposes of this Act.
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16 | (10) To seek, accept, and expend gifts or grants in any | ||||||
17 | form, from any
public agency or from any other source. Such | ||||||
18 | gifts and grants may be held
in trust by the Department and | ||||||
19 | expended at the direction of the
Department and
in the | ||||||
20 | exercise of the Department's powers and performance of
the | ||||||
21 | Department's duties.
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22 | (11) To publish, from time to time, the results of | ||||||
23 | Illinois coal research
projects funded through the | ||||||
24 | Department.
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25 | (12) To authorize loans from appropriations from the | ||||||
26 | Build Illinois
Bond Purposes Fund, the Build Illinois Bond |
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1 | Fund and the Illinois
Industrial Coal Utilization Fund.
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2 | (13) To authorize expenditures of monies for coal | ||||||
3 | development projects
under the authority of Section 13 of | ||||||
4 | the General Obligation Bond Act.
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5 | (c) The Board shall also provide advice and make | ||||||
6 | recommendations on the following Department powers and duties:
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7 | (1) To create and maintain thorough, current and | ||||||
8 | accurate records on
all markets for and actual uses of coal | ||||||
9 | mined in Illinois, and to make such
records available to | ||||||
10 | the public upon request.
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11 | (2) To identify all current and anticipated future | ||||||
12 | technical,
economic, institutional, market, environmental, | ||||||
13 | regulatory and other
impediments to the utilization of | ||||||
14 | Illinois coal.
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15 | (3) To monitor and evaluate all proposals and plans of | ||||||
16 | public
utilities related to compliance with the | ||||||
17 | requirements of Title IV of the
federal Clean Air Act | ||||||
18 | Amendments of 1990, or with any other law which might
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19 | affect the use of Illinois coal, for the purposes of (i) | ||||||
20 | determining the
effects of such proposals or plans on the | ||||||
21 | use of Illinois coal, and (ii)
identifying alternative | ||||||
22 | plans or actions which would maintain or increase
the use | ||||||
23 | of Illinois coal.
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24 | (4) To develop strategies and to propose policies to | ||||||
25 | promote
environmentally responsible uses of Illinois coal | ||||||
26 | for meeting electric
power supply requirements and for |
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1 | other purposes.
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2 | (5) (Blank).
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3 | (Source: P.A. 95-728, eff. 7-1-08 - See Sec. 999; 96-739, eff. | ||||||
4 | 1-1-10 .)
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5 | Section 10. The Illinois Coal Technology Development | ||||||
6 | Assistance Act is amended by changing Sections 2 and 5 as | ||||||
7 | follows:
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8 | (30 ILCS 730/2) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 8202)
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9 | Sec. 2. As used in this Act:
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10 | (a) "coal" or "coal resources" means Illinois coal or coal | ||||||
11 | products
extracted from the ground or reclaimed from the waste | ||||||
12 | material produced by
coal extraction operations;
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13 | (b) "coal demonstration and commercialization" means | ||||||
14 | projects for the
construction and operation of facilities to | ||||||
15 | prove the scientific and
engineering validity or the commercial | ||||||
16 | application of a coal extraction,
preparation, combustion, | ||||||
17 | gasification, liquefaction or other synthetic process,
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18 | environmental control, or transportation method;
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19 | (c) "coal research" means scientific investigations | ||||||
20 | conducted for the
purpose of increasing the utilization of coal | ||||||
21 | resources and includes
investigations in the areas of | ||||||
22 | extraction, preparation, characterization,
combustion, | ||||||
23 | gasification, liquefaction and other synthetic processes,
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24 | environmental control, marketing, transportation, procurement |
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1 | of sites, and
environmental impacts;
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2 | (d) "Fund" means the Coal Technology Development | ||||||
3 | Assistance Fund;
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4 | (e) "Board" means the Illinois Coal Development Board or | ||||||
5 | its successor;
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6 | (f) "Department" means the Department of Commerce and
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7 | Economic Opportunity;
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8 | (g) (blank). "public awareness and education" means | ||||||
9 | programs of education,
curriculum development, public service | ||||||
10 | announcements, informational
advertising and informing the | ||||||
11 | news media on issues related to the use of
Illinois coal, the | ||||||
12 | coal industry and related developments. Public
awareness and | ||||||
13 | education shall be directed toward
school age residents of the | ||||||
14 | State, the citizens of the State and other
interested parties.
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15 | (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
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16 | (30 ILCS 730/5) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 8205)
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17 | Sec. 5. The Department shall have the following powers and | ||||||
18 | duties:
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19 | (a) To solicit, accept and approve or disapprove | ||||||
20 | applications for
financial support of coal research projects | ||||||
21 | and coal demonstration and
commercialization projects.
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22 | (b) To enter into contracts with business, industrial, | ||||||
23 | university,
governmental or other qualified individuals or | ||||||
24 | organizations to carry out
programs to increase public | ||||||
25 | awareness and education concerning Illinois
coal, to implement |
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1 | coal research and coal demonstration and commercialization
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2 | projects , and to carry out programs designed to preserve and | ||||||
3 | enhance markets
for Illinois coal.
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4 | (c) To make a reasonable attempt, before initiating any | ||||||
5 | projects under
this Act, to avoid duplication of support for | ||||||
6 | previous or ongoing activities,
or projects that would be more | ||||||
7 | appropriately funded under the Illinois Coal
and Energy | ||||||
8 | Development Bond Act.
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9 | (d) To seek, accept and expend gifts or grants in any form, | ||||||
10 | from any
public agency or any other source, for the purposes of | ||||||
11 | this Act.
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12 | (e) To adopt, amend and repeal rules, regulations and | ||||||
13 | guidelines to
implement and administer this Act.
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14 | (Source: P.A. 89-499, eff. 6-28-96.)
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15 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
16 | becoming law.
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