Bill Text: IL SB2810 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that "waste" does not include steel slag products. Defines "steel slag products". Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-07-31 - Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB2810 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB2810-Introduced.html
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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 | changing Section 3.535 and by adding Section 3.477 as follows:
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6 | (415 ILCS 5/3.477 new) | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 3.477. Steel slag products. "Steel slag products" | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | means steel slag or mill scale that is a product of the | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | steelmaking process; provided, that such steel slag or mill | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | scale is sold and distributed in the stream of commerce for | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | consumption, use, or further processing into another desired | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | commodity and is managed as an item of commercial value in a | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | controlled manner and not as a discarded material.
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14 | (415 ILCS 5/3.535) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.53)
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15 | Sec. 3.535. Waste.
"Waste" means any garbage, sludge from | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | a waste treatment plant,
water supply treatment plant, or air | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | pollution control facility or other
discarded material, | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained
gaseous | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and
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20 | agricultural operations, and from community activities, but | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | does not
include solid or dissolved material in domestic | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | sewage, or solid or
dissolved materials in irrigation return |
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1 | flows, or steel slag products as defined in Section 3.477, or | ||||||
2 | coal combustion
by-products as defined in Section 3.135, or | ||||||
3 | industrial
discharges which are point sources subject to | ||||||
4 | permits under Section
402 of the Federal Water Pollution | ||||||
5 | Control Act, as now or hereafter
amended, or source, special | ||||||
6 | nuclear, or by-product materials as
defined by the Atomic | ||||||
7 | Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 921)
or any solid or | ||||||
8 | dissolved material from any facility subject to
the Federal | ||||||
9 | Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L.
95-87) | ||||||
10 | or the rules and regulations thereunder or any law or rule or
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11 | regulation adopted by the State of Illinois pursuant thereto.
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12 | (Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
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13 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
14 | becoming law.
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