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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 Environmental Protection Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | adding Section 22.59 as follows:
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| 6 | (415 ILCS 5/22.59 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 22.59. Regulation of uncontaminated plastics. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) As used in this Section: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | "Gasification facility" means a manufacturing facility | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | that: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | (1) receives uncontaminated plastics or nonrecycled | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | feedstocks that meet the facility's specifications for a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | gasification feedstock; and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | (2) uses heat in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | process the feedstock into crude oil, diesel, gasoline, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | home heating oil or other fuels, chemicals, waxes, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | lubricants, chemical feedstocks, diesel and gasoline | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | blendstocks, or other raw materials or intermediate or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | final products that are returned to the economic mainstream | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | in the form of raw materials, products, or fuels. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | A "gasification facility" is not a pollution control | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | facility, a solid waste treatment facility, or a solid waste | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | incineration facility. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | "Nonrecycled feedstocks" means one or more of the following | ||||||
| 2 | materials, derived from post-use materials, that has been | ||||||
| 3 | source separated or processed so that it may be used as | ||||||
| 4 | feedstock in a gasification facility: | ||||||
| 5 | (1) uncontaminated plastics; and | ||||||
| 6 | (2) materials that have been processed into a fuel or | ||||||
| 7 | feedstock for which the United States Environmental | ||||||
| 8 | Protection Agency has made a non-waste determination under | ||||||
| 9 | 40 CFR 241.3(c) or otherwise determined are not wastes or | ||||||
| 10 | for which the board has made a non-waste determination. | ||||||
| 11 | "Pyrolysis facility" means a manufacturing facility that: | ||||||
| 12 | (1) receives uncontaminated plastics that meet the | ||||||
| 13 | facility's specifications for a pyrolysis feedstock; and | ||||||
| 14 | (2) uses heat in the absence of oxygen to process the | ||||||
| 15 | uncontaminated plastics into crude oil, diesel, gasoline, | ||||||
| 16 | home heating oil or other fuels, chemicals, waxes, | ||||||
| 17 | lubricants, chemical feedstocks, diesel and gasoline | ||||||
| 18 | blendstocks, or other raw materials or intermediate or | ||||||
| 19 | final products that are returned to the economic mainstream | ||||||
| 20 | in the form of raw materials, products, or fuels. | ||||||
| 21 | A "pyrolysis facility" is not a pollution control facility, | ||||||
| 22 | a solid waste treatment facility, or a solid waste incineration | ||||||
| 23 | facility. | ||||||
| 24 | "Uncontaminated plastics" means synthetic organic polymers | ||||||
| 25 | that have been molded into shape under heat and pressure and | ||||||
| 26 | then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form and have been | ||||||
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| 1 | source separated at least once after use by a household, | ||||||
| 2 | community, commercial or other activity. "Uncontaminated | ||||||
| 3 | plastics" may contain incidental contaminants or impurities, | ||||||
| 4 | such as paper labels or metal rings. "Uncontaminated plastics" | ||||||
| 5 | are not waste. | ||||||
| 6 | (b) A gasification facility or pyrolysis facility is | ||||||
| 7 | subject to regulation as a manufacturing facility and shall | ||||||
| 8 | comply with relevant and applicable regulations relating to its | ||||||
| 9 | storm water, water discharges, air emissions, and waste | ||||||
| 10 | generation. | ||||||
| 11 | (c) To the extent allowed by federal law, uncontaminated | ||||||
| 12 | plastics that meet feedstock specifications for a gasification | ||||||
| 13 | facility or pyrolysis facility, and that are further processed | ||||||
| 14 | by a gasification facility or pyrolysis facility and returned | ||||||
| 15 | to the economic mainstream in the form of crude oil, diesel, | ||||||
| 16 | gasoline, home heating oil or other fuels, chemicals, waxes, | ||||||
| 17 | lubricants, chemical feedstocks, diesel and gasoline | ||||||
| 18 | blendstocks, or other raw materials or intermediate or final | ||||||
| 19 | products, are considered recycled and are not subject to | ||||||
| 20 | regulation as waste.
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| 21 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 22 | becoming law.
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