Public Act 100-0095
 
SB1561 EnrolledLRB100 10484 MJP 20698 b


  
    AN ACT concerning safety.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
    Section 5. The Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act is 
amended  by adding Section 9.5 as follows:
 
    (415 ILCS 15/9.5 new)
    Sec. 9.5. Regulation of certain pollution control 
facilities.  No provision of this Act shall be construed to 
allow any county with a population of less than 2,000,000 
residents to adopt an ordinance or resolution, except an 
ordinance or resolution adopting a county plan in accordance 
with Sections 4 and 5 of this Act, or implementing a county 
plan in accordance with Section 7 of this Act, that requires 
the issuance of a permit, or that imposes regulations upon the 
operations of a municipal solid waste landfill unit, sanitary 
landfill, storage site, transfer station, or waste disposal 
site, as long as the facility obtains appropriate permits from 
the Agency in accordance with Section 39 of the Environmental 
Protection Act.  Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 100th 
General Assembly shall be construed to diminish or impair any 
authority conferred upon a county under the Environmental 
Protection Act, including, but not limited to, subsection (r) 
of Section 4 and Section 39.2 of the Environmental Protection 
Act.
    Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 100th General 
Assembly shall be construed to limit the authority of a county 
to prepare or adopt a county plan pursuant to and in accordance 
with Sections 4 and 5  of this Act, to implement a county plan 
in accordance with Section 7 of this Act, or to relieve a 
facility proposed for siting approval from demonstrating 
consistency with that plan as required by criterion (viii) of 
subsection (a) of Section 39.2 of the Environmental Protection 
Act. 
    For the purposes of this Section, "municipal solid waste 
landfill unit", "sanitary landfill", "storage site", "transfer 
station", and "waste disposal site" have the meanings provided 
to those terms in the Environmental Protection Act.
 

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