Bill Text: IL SB3251 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency, in certain rulemakings before the Illinois Pollution Control Board, to include a statement of reasons that (i) assesses the differences between the Agency's proposed rule and other state and federal laws and (ii) analyzes the need for and reasonableness of each difference. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB3251 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB3251-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB3251 Introduced 2/1/2012, by Sen. Mike Jacobs SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 5/28.7 new
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency, in certain rulemakings before the Illinois Pollution Control Board, to include a statement of reasons that (i) assesses the differences between the Agency's proposed rule and other state and federal laws and (ii) analyzes the need for and reasonableness of each difference. Effective immediately.
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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
adding Section 28.7 as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/28.7 new)
Sec. 28.7. Agency rulemaking; statement of reasons. For any
rulemaking proposal submitted to the Board by the Agency under
Section 28 of this Act to adopt or amend standards for air
quality, solid waste or hazardous waste, or water quality, the
statement of reasons must include:
(1) an assessment of any differences between the proposed
rule and:
(A) existing federal standards adopted under the
federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq., the federal
Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), or
any successor Act, as applicable;
(B) similar standards in states bordering Illinois;
and
(C) similar standards in states within the
Environmental Protection Agency Region 5; and
(2) a specific analysis of the need for and reasonableness

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of each difference.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.