Public Act 099-0543
 
SB2963 EnrolledLRB099 16462 MGM 40796 b


  
    AN ACT concerning safety.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is 
amended  by changing Section 3 as follows:
 



    (415 ILCS 20/3)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7053)



    Sec. 3. State agency materials recycling program. 

    (a) All State agencies responsible for the maintenance of 
public lands in
the State shall, to the maximum extent 
feasible, use compost materials in all land maintenance

activities which are to be paid with public funds.

    (a-5) All State agencies responsible for the maintenance of 
public lands in the State shall review its procurement 
specifications and policies to determine (1) if incorporating 
compost materials will help reduce stormwater run-off and 
increase infiltration of moisture in land maintenance 
activities and (2) the current recycled content usage and 
potential for additional recycled content usage by the Agency 
in land maintenance activities and report to the General 
Assembly by December 15, 2015. 
    (b) The Department of Central Management Services, in 
coordination
with the Department of Commerce and Economic 
Opportunity, shall implement
waste reduction programs, 
including source separation and collection, for
office 
wastepaper, corrugated containers, newsprint and mixed paper, 
in all
State buildings as appropriate and feasible.  Such waste 
reduction programs
shall be designed to achieve waste 
reductions of at least 25% of
all such waste by December 31, 
1995, and at least 50% of all such waste by
December 31, 2000.  
Any source separation and collection program
shall include, at 
a minimum, procedures for collecting and storing
recyclable 
materials, bins or containers for storing materials, and

contractual or other arrangements with buyers of recyclable 
materials.  If
market conditions so warrant, the Department of 
Central Management
Services, in coordination with the 
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, may modify 
programs developed pursuant to this Section.

    The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (now 
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) shall conduct 
waste
categorization studies of all State facilities for 
calendar years 1991,
1995 and 2000.  Such studies shall be 
designed to assist the Department of
Central Management 
Services to achieve the waste reduction goals
established in 
this subsection.

    (c) Each State agency shall, upon consultation with the 
Department of
Commerce and Economic Opportunity,
periodically 
review its procurement procedures and specifications related

to the purchase of products or supplies.  Such procedures and

specifications shall be modified as necessary to require the 
procuring
agency to seek out products and supplies that contain 
recycled materials,
and to ensure that purchased products or 
supplies are reusable, durable or
made from recycled materials 
whenever economically and practically
feasible.  In choosing 
among products or supplies that contain recycled
material, 
consideration shall be given to products and supplies with the

highest recycled material content that is consistent with the 
effective and
efficient use of the product or supply.

    (d) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the 
Department of
Central Management Services shall procure 
recycled paper and paper products
as follows:

        (1) Beginning July 1, 1989, at least 10% of the
total 
    dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by
the 
    Department of Central Management Services shall be

    recycled paper and paper products.

        (2) Beginning July 1, 1992, at least 25% of the
total 
    dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by
the 
    Department of Central Management Services shall be

    recycled paper and paper products.

        (3) Beginning July 1, 1996, at least
40% of the total 
    dollar value of paper and paper products
purchased by the 
    Department of Central Management Services shall be

    recycled paper and paper products.

        (4) Beginning July 1, 2000, at least 50% of the total 
    dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by the 
    Department of Central Management
Services shall be 
    recycled paper and paper products.

    (e) Paper and paper products purchased from private vendors

pursuant to printing contracts are not considered paper 
products for the
purposes of subsection (d).  However, the 
Department of Central Management
Services shall report to the 
General Assembly on an annual
basis the total dollar value of 
printing contracts awarded to private
sector vendors that 
included the use of recycled paper.

        (f)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible, 
    the recycled paper
and paper products referred to in 
    subsection (d) shall contain postconsumer
or recovered 
    paper materials as specified by paper category in this 
    subsection:

            (i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper 
        shall contain at
least 50% recovered paper material.  
        Such recovered paper material, until
July 1, 1994, 
        shall consist of at least 20% deinked stock or 
        postconsumer
material; and  beginning July 1, 1994, 
        shall consist of at least 25%
deinked stock or 
        postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, 
        shall
consist of at least 30% deinked stock or 
        postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1998, 
        shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock or

        postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000, 
        shall consist of at
least 50% deinked stock or 
        postconsumer material.

            (ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994, 
        shall contain at
least 25% postconsumer material; and 
        beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 30% 
        postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, 
        shall
contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and 
        beginning July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 40% 
        postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,
2000, 
        shall contain at least 45% postconsumer material.

            (iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994, 
        shall contain at least
40% postconsumer material; and 
        beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at
least 50% 
        postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, 
        shall contain
at least 60% postconsumer material; and 
        beginning July 1, 1998, shall
contain at least 70% 
        postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000,

        shall contain at least 80% postconsumer material.

            (iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1, 
        1994, shall
contain at least 35% postconsumer 
        material; and beginning July 1, 1994,
shall contain at 
        least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,

        1996, shall contain at least 45% postconsumer 
        material; and beginning July
1, 1998, shall contain at 
        least 50% postconsumer material; and beginning
July 1, 
        2000, shall contain at least 55% postconsumer 
        material.

            (v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall 
        contain at least
80% postconsumer material; and 
        beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at
least 85% 
        postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, 
        shall contain
at least 90% postconsumer material; and 
        beginning July 1, 1998, shall
contain at least 95% 
        postconsumer material.

        (2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer 
    material" includes:

            (i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes from 
        retail stores, office
buildings, homes, and so forth, 
        after the waste has passed through its end
usage as a 
        consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old 
        newspapers,
mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and 
        used cordage; and

            (ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes 
        that are diverted or
separated from the municipal solid 
        waste stream.

        (3) For the purposes of this Section, "recovered paper 
    material" includes:

            (i) postconsumer material;

            (ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated 
        after completion of the
papermaking process (that is, 
        those manufacturing operations up to and
including the 
        cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into 
        smaller
rolls or rough sheets), including envelope 
        cuttings, bindery trimmings, and
other paper and 
        paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting,

        forming, and other converting operations, or from bag, 
        box and carton
manufacturing, and butt rolls, mill 
        wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and

            (iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete 
        inventories of
paper and paperboard manufacturers, 
        merchants, wholesalers, dealers,
printers, converters, 
        or others.

    (g) The Department of Central Management Services may
adopt 
regulations to carry out the provisions and
purposes of this 
Section.

    (h) Every State agency shall, in its procurement documents, 
specify
that, whenever economically and practically feasible, 
a product to be
procured must consist, wholly or in part, of 
recycled materials, or be
recyclable or reusable in whole or in 
part.  When applicable, if state
guidelines are not already 
prescribed, State agencies shall follow USEPA
guidelines for 
federal procurement.

    (i) All State agencies shall cooperate with the Department 
of Central
Management Services in carrying out this Section.  
The Department of
Central Management Services may enter into 
cooperative purchasing
agreements with other governmental 
units in order to obtain volume
discounts, or for other reasons 
in accordance with the Governmental Joint
Purchasing Act, or in 
accordance with the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act
if 
governmental units of other states or the federal government 
are involved.

    (j) The Department of Central Management Services shall 
submit an annual
report to the General Assembly concerning its 
implementation of the
State's collection and recycled paper 
procurement programs.  This report
shall include a description 
of the actions that the Department of Central
Management 
Services has taken in the previous fiscal year to implement 
this
Section.  This report shall be submitted on or before 
November 1 of each year.

    (k) The Department of Central Management Services, in

cooperation with all other appropriate departments and 
agencies of the
State, shall institute whenever economically 
and practically feasible the
use of re-refined motor oil in all 
State-owned motor vehicles and the use
of remanufactured and 
retread tires whenever such use is practical,
beginning no 
later than July 1, 1992.

    (l) (Blank).

    (m) The Department of Central Management Services, in 
coordination with
the Department of Commerce and Community 
Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity), 
has implemented shall implement an aluminum
can recycling 
program in all State buildings within 270 days of the effective

date of this amendatory Act of 1997. The program provides shall 
provide for (1) the
collection and storage of used aluminum 
cans in bins or other appropriate
containers made reasonably 
available to occupants and visitors of State
buildings and (2) 
the sale of used aluminum cans to buyers of recyclable

materials.

    Proceeds from the sale of used aluminum cans shall be 
deposited into I-CYCLE
accounts maintained in the State Surplus 
Property Revolving Fund and, subject
to appropriation, shall be 
used by the Department of Central Management
Services and any 
other State agency to offset the costs of implementing the

aluminum can recycling program under this Section.

    All State agencies having an aluminum can recycling program 
in place shall
continue with their current plan. If a State 
agency has an existing recycling
program in place, proceeds 
from the aluminum can recycling program may be
retained and 
distributed pursuant to that program, otherwise all revenue

resulting from these programs shall be forwarded to Central 
Management
Services, I-CYCLE for placement into the 
appropriate account within the State
Surplus Property 
Revolving Fund, minus any operating costs associated with the

program.

(Source: P.A. 99-34, eff. 7-14-15.)