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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund | ||||||
| 3 | Council has delegated many of its programmatic | ||||||
| 4 | responsibilities under the Drycleaner Environmental Response | ||||||
| 5 | Trust Fund Act, including the duty to receive and process | ||||||
| 6 | license applications and the duty to receive and process | ||||||
| 7 | claims, to a private company, Williams and Company Consulting, | ||||||
| 8 | Inc.; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, This delegation of programmatic duties | ||||||
| 10 | potentially threatens the integrity of the regulatory scheme | ||||||
| 11 | established under the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust | ||||||
| 12 | Fund Act; therefore, be it
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| 13 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 14 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that, | ||||||
| 15 | when conducting the next scheduled annual audit of the | ||||||
| 16 | Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Council, we urge | ||||||
| 17 | the Auditor General to investigate and report on: | ||||||
| 18 | (1) whether Williams and Company Consulting, Inc., is | ||||||
| 19 | administering the Council's programmatic responsibilities | ||||||
| 20 | in a manner that is consistent with the requirements of the | ||||||
| 21 | Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Act and rules | ||||||
| 22 | adopted under that Act, as well as all relevant State | ||||||
| 23 | procurement laws;
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| 1 | (2) the gross revenues of the Drycleaner Environmental | ||||||
| 2 | Response Trust Fund during each of the last 14 years, as | ||||||
| 3 | well as the total expenditures from the Fund for remedial | ||||||
| 4 | actions of drycleaning solvent releases at drycleaning | ||||||
| 5 | facilities in the State during each of those years;
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| 6 | (3) expenses that Williams and Company Consulting, | ||||||
| 7 | Inc., has billed for acting as the administrator of the | ||||||
| 8 | Fund during each of the years of its current contract with | ||||||
| 9 | the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund Council; | ||||||
| 10 | (4) the amount paid from the Fund to each State agency, | ||||||
| 11 | as defined in the Illinois State Auditing Act, during each | ||||||
| 12 | of the last 14 years; | ||||||
| 13 | (5) any ancillary charges that Williams and Company, | ||||||
| 14 | Inc., imposes against owners and operators for the | ||||||
| 15 | administrative services that it provides; and | ||||||
| 16 | (6) the number of Illinois drycleaners whose | ||||||
| 17 | properties are in need of remedial action and whose | ||||||
| 18 | participation in the State's drycleaner environmental | ||||||
| 19 | cleanup insurance system has been terminated for | ||||||
| 20 | noncompliance with the Drycleaner Environmental Response | ||||||
| 21 | Trust Fund Act and rules adopted under that Act; and be it | ||||||
| 22 | further | ||||||
| 23 | RESOLVED, That the Auditor General commence its next annual | ||||||
| 24 | audit of the Council as soon as possible and report the | ||||||
| 25 | findings and recommendations upon completion in accordance | ||||||
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| 1 | with the Illinois State Auditing Act; and be it further
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| 2 | RESOLVED, That the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust | ||||||
| 3 | Fund Council and Williams and Company Consulting, Inc., shall | ||||||
| 4 | provide all needed information that the Auditor General deems | ||||||
| 5 | necessary; and be it further | ||||||
| 6 | RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be delivered to | ||||||
| 7 | the Auditor General and to each of the member of the Drycleaner | ||||||
| 8 | Environmental Response Trust Fund Council.
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