100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB3055
 
Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Heather A. Steans
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
415 ILCS 5/52.3-15 new

     Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that the Environmental Protection Agency shall administer the moneys available to the State under a specified environmental mitigation trust agreement for states. Provides that the Agency may allocate administrative costs to specified eligible mitigation actions. Provides that a Beneficiary Mitigation Plan submitted by the State under the specified environmental trust agreement shall comply with these provisions. Provides that a Beneficiary Mitigation Plan filed within 60 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall be revised to comply with the amendatory Act and resubmitted in accordance with the specified environmental mitigation trust agreement. Effective immediately.
  


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1    AN ACT relating to the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation 
2Trust.
  
 
3    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
4represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
5    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended  by 
6adding Section 52.3-15 as follows:
 
7    (415 ILCS 5/52.3-15 new)
8    Sec. 52.3-15. Environmental Mitigation Trust.
9    (a) As used in this Section: 
10    "Appendix D-2" means Appendix D-2 to the Environmental 
11Mitigation Trust, entitled "Eligible Mitigation Actions and 
12Mitigation Action Expenditures".
13    "Beneficiary Mitigation Plan" means a plan described in 
14paragraph 4.1 of the Environmental Mitigation Trust.
15    "Director" means the Director of the Agency.
16    "Eligible Mitigation Action" has the meaning provided in 
17paragraph 1.9 of the Environmental Mitigation Trust. 
18    "Environmental Mitigation Trust" means the Environmental  
19Mitigation Trust Agreement for State Beneficiaries filed on 
20October 2, 2017 in In re: Volkswagen "Clean Diesel" Marketing, 
21Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, 
223:16-CV-00295-CRB, MDL No. 2672 CRB (JSC) (N.D. 3 Cal.).
23    (b) The Agency shall administer the moneys available to the 
 
 
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1State under the Environmental Mitigation Trust so that: 
2        (1) 15% of the moneys are dedicated to the purchase of 
3    light duty electric vehicle supply equipment that 
4    qualifies under Eligible Mitigation Action 9 in Appendix 
5    D-2, entitled "Light Duty Zero Emission Vehicle Supply 
6    Equipment"; and
7        (2) the remainder of the moneys are dedicated to the 
8    replacement of fossil fuel-powered vehicles with 
9    all-electric vehicles under one or more of the following 
10    Eligible Mitigation Actions: 
11            (A) 1, entitled "Class 8 Local Freight Trucks and 
12        Port Drayage Trucks (Eligible Large Trucks)";
13            (B) 2, entitled "Class 4-8 School Bus, Shuttle Bus, 
14        or Transit Bus (Eligible Buses)"; and
15            (C) 6, entitled "Class 4-7 Local Freight Trucks 
16        (Medium Trucks)". 
17    (c)  The Agency may allocate administrative costs to the 
18Eligible Mitigation Actions identified in subsection (b) of 
19this Section in accordance with Appendix D-2.
20    (d) A Beneficiary Mitigation Plan submitted by the State of 
21Illinois under the Environmental Mitigation Trust shall comply 
22with this Section. A Beneficiary Mitigation Plan filed within 
2360 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 
24100th General Assembly shall be revised to comply with this 
25amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly and resubmitted in 
26accordance with the Environmental Mitigation Trust. 
  
 
 
 
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1    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
2becoming law.