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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 356

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 356,  AS  AMENDED,
 3    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 4    following:

 5        "Section 5.  The Environmental Protection Act is  amended
 6    by changing Section 39 as follows:

 7        (415 ILCS 5/39) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1039)
 8        Sec. 39. Issuance of permits; procedures.
 9        (a)  When  the  Board has by regulation required a permit
10    for the construction, installation, or operation of any  type
11    of  facility,  equipment,  vehicle,  vessel, or aircraft, the
12    applicant shall apply to the Agency for such  permit  and  it
13    shall  be  the duty of the Agency to issue such a permit upon
14    proof by the applicant that the facility, equipment, vehicle,
15    vessel, or aircraft will not cause a violation of this Act or
16    of  regulations  hereunder.   The  Agency  shall  adopt  such
17    procedures as are necessary to carry  out  its  duties  under
18    this  Section. In granting permits the Agency may impose such
19    conditions as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes  of
20    this  Act,  and  as are not inconsistent with the regulations
21    promulgated by the Board  hereunder.    Except  as  otherwise
22    provided  in  this Act, a bond or other security shall not be
 
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 1    required as a condition for the issuance of a permit.  If the
 2    Agency denies any permit under this Section, the Agency shall
 3    transmit to the applicant within the time limitations of this
 4    Section specific, detailed statements as to the  reasons  the
 5    permit   application   was  denied.   Such  statements  shall
 6    include, but not be limited to the following:
 7             (i)  the Sections of this Act which may be  violated
 8        if the permit were granted;
 9             (ii)  the  provision of the regulations, promulgated
10        under this Act, which may be violated if the permit  were
11        granted;
12             (iii)  the  specific  type  of  information, if any,
13        which the Agency deems the applicant did not provide  the
14        Agency; and
15             (iv)  a  statement  of  specific reasons why the Act
16        and the regulations might not be met if the  permit  were
17        granted.
18        If  there is no final action by the Agency within 90 days
19    after the filing of the application for permit, the applicant
20    may deem the permit issued;  except  that  this  time  period
21    shall   be  extended  to  180  days  when  (1)    notice  and
22    opportunity for public  hearing  are  required  by  State  or
23    federal  law  or  regulation,  (2)  the application which was
24    filed is for any permit to  develop  a  landfill  subject  to
25    issuance  pursuant to this subsection, or (3) the application
26    that was filed is for a MSWLF unit required to  issue  public
27    notice under subsection (p) of Section 39.
28        The  Agency  shall  publish  notice  of  all final permit
29    determinations for development permits for  MSWLF  units  and
30    for  significant  permit modifications for lateral expansions
31    for existing MSWLF units one time in a newspaper  of  general
32    circulation in the county in which the unit is or is proposed
33    to be located.
34        After  January  1, 1994 and until July 1, 1998, operating
 
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 1    permits issued under this Section by the Agency  for  sources
 2    of air pollution permitted to emit less than 25 tons per year
 3    of any combination of regulated air pollutants, as defined in
 4    Section  39.5  of  this  Act, shall be required to be renewed
 5    only upon written  request  by  the  Agency  consistent  with
 6    applicable provisions of this Act and regulations promulgated
 7    hereunder.   Such  operating  permits  shall  expire 180 days
 8    after the date of such a request.  The Board shall revise its
 9    regulations for the existing State  air  pollution  operating
10    permit  program  consistent with this provision by January 1,
11    1994.
12        After June 30, 1998, operating permits issued under  this
13    Section  by  the Agency for sources of air pollution that are
14    not subject to Section 39.5 of this Act and are not  required
15    to  have a federally enforceable State operating permit shall
16    be required to be renewed only upon written  request  by  the
17    Agency  consistent with applicable provisions of this Act and
18    its rules.  Such operating  permits  shall  expire  180  days
19    after  the  date of such a request.  Before July 1, 1998, the
20    Board shall revise its  rules  for  the  existing  State  air
21    pollution  operating  permit  program  consistent  with  this
22    paragraph  and  shall  adopt  rules  that require a source to
23    demonstrate  that  it  qualifies  for  a  permit  under  this
24    paragraph.
25        (b)  The Agency may issue NPDES permits exclusively under
26    this subsection for the discharge of contaminants from  point
27    sources  into navigable waters, all as defined in the Federal
28    Water Pollution Control Act, as  now  or  hereafter  amended,
29    within the jurisdiction of the State, or into any well.
30        All   NPDES   permits   shall  contain  those  terms  and
31    conditions,  including  but  not  limited  to  schedules   of
32    compliance,  which may be required to accomplish the purposes
33    and provisions of this Act.
34        The Agency may issue general NPDES permits for discharges
 
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 1    from categories of point sources which  are  subject  to  the
 2    same  permit limitations and conditions. Such general permits
 3    may be  issued  without  individual  applications  and  shall
 4    conform  to  regulations promulgated under Section 402 of the
 5    Federal Water Pollution Control  Act,  as  now  or  hereafter
 6    amended.
 7        The  Agency  may include, among such conditions, effluent
 8    limitations and other  requirements  established  under  this
 9    Act,  Board  regulations, the Federal Water Pollution Control
10    Act, as now or hereafter amended,  and  regulations  pursuant
11    thereto,  and schedules for achieving compliance therewith at
12    the earliest reasonable date.
13        The Agency shall adopt filing requirements and procedures
14    which are necessary and appropriate for the issuance of NPDES
15    permits, and which are consistent with the Act or regulations
16    adopted by the Board, and with the  Federal  Water  Pollution
17    Control  Act,  as  now  or hereafter amended, and regulations
18    pursuant thereto.
19        The Agency,  subject  to  any  conditions  which  may  be
20    prescribed  by  Board regulations, may issue NPDES permits to
21    allow discharges beyond deadlines established by this Act  or
22    by  regulations  of  the  Board  without the requirement of a
23    variance, subject to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act,
24    as  now  or  hereafter  amended,  and  regulations   pursuant
25    thereto.
26        (c)  Except  for  those  facilities  owned or operated by
27    sanitary districts organized  under  the  Metropolitan  Water
28    Reclamation  District  Act,  no permit for the development or
29    construction of a  new  pollution  control  facility  may  be
30    granted  by  the Agency unless the applicant submits proof to
31    the Agency  that  the  location  of  the  facility  has  been
32    approved  by  the  County  Board  of  the  county  if  in  an
33    unincorporated   area,   or   the   governing   body  of  the
34    municipality when in  an  incorporated  area,  in  which  the
 
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 1    facility  is to be located in accordance with Section 39.2 of
 2    this Act.
 3        In the event that siting  approval  granted  pursuant  to
 4    Section  39.2  has  been transferred to a subsequent owner or
 5    operator, that subsequent owner or operator may apply to  the
 6    Agency  for,  and  the  Agency  may  grant,  a development or
 7    construction permit for the facility for which  local  siting
 8    approval  was  granted.  Upon application to the Agency for a
 9    development or construction permit by that  subsequent  owner
10    or  operator, the permit applicant shall cause written notice
11    of the permit application to be served upon  the  appropriate
12    county  board  or  governing  body  of  the municipality that
13    granted siting approval for that facility and upon any  party
14    to  the  siting  proceeding pursuant to which siting approval
15    was granted.  In that event,  the  Agency  shall  conduct  an
16    evaluation  of  the  subsequent  owner  or  operator's  prior
17    experience  in  waste  management  operations  in  the manner
18    conducted under subsection (i) of Section 39 of this Act.
19        Beginning August  20,  1993,  if  the  pollution  control
20    facility  consists  of  a  hazardous  or solid waste disposal
21    facility for  which  the  proposed  site  is  located  in  an
22    unincorporated  area  of  a  county with a population of less
23    than 100,000 and includes all or a portion  of  a  parcel  of
24    land  that  was, on April 1, 1993, adjacent to a municipality
25    having a population of less than 5,000, then the local siting
26    review required under this subsection (c) in conjunction with
27    any permit applied for after that date shall be performed  by
28    the  governing body of that adjacent municipality rather than
29    the county board of the county in which the proposed site  is
30    located;  and  for  the purposes of that local siting review,
31    any references in this Act  to  the  county  board  shall  be
32    deemed   to   mean   the  governing  body  of  that  adjacent
33    municipality; provided, however, that the provisions of  this
34    paragraph  shall not apply to any proposed site which was, on
 
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 1    April  1,  1993,  owned  in  whole  or  in  part  by  another
 2    municipality.
 3        In the case of a pollution control facility for  which  a
 4    development permit was issued before November 12, 1981, if an
 5    operating  permit  has not been issued by the Agency prior to
 6    August 31, 1989 for any portion of  the  facility,  then  the
 7    Agency  may  not  issue  or  renew any development permit nor
 8    issue an original operating permit for any  portion  of  such
 9    facility  unless  the  applicant  has  submitted proof to the
10    Agency that the location of the facility has been approved by
11    the appropriate county  board  or  municipal  governing  body
12    pursuant to Section 39.2 of this Act.
13        After   January  1,  1994,  if  a  solid  waste  disposal
14    facility, any portion for which an operating permit has  been
15    issued  by  the Agency, has not accepted waste disposal for 5
16    or more consecutive calendars years, before that facility may
17    accept any new or additional waste for  disposal,  the  owner
18    and  operator  must  obtain a new operating permit under this
19    Act for that facility unless  the  owner  and  operator  have
20    applied  to the Agency for a permit authorizing the temporary
21    suspension of waste acceptance.  The Agency may not  issue  a
22    new  operation  permit under this Act for the facility unless
23    the applicant has submitted proof  to  the  Agency  that  the
24    location  of the facility has been approved or re-approved by
25    the appropriate county  board  or  municipal  governing  body
26    under  Section  39.2  of  this  Act after the facility ceased
27    accepting waste.
28        Except for those facilities owned or operated by sanitary
29    districts organized under the Metropolitan Water  Reclamation
30    District Act, and except for new pollution control facilities
31    governed  by  Section 39.2, and except for fossil fuel mining
32    facilities, the granting of a permit under this Act shall not
33    relieve the applicant from meeting and securing all necessary
34    zoning approvals from the unit of  government  having  zoning
 
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 1    jurisdiction over the proposed facility.
 2        Before beginning construction on any new sewage treatment
 3    plant  or  sludge  drying  site  to be owned or operated by a
 4    sanitary district  organized  under  the  Metropolitan  Water
 5    Reclamation District Act  for which a new permit (rather than
 6    the  renewal or amendment of an existing permit) is required,
 7    such sanitary district shall hold a public hearing within the
 8    municipality within which the  proposed  facility  is  to  be
 9    located,  or  within  the  nearest  community if the proposed
10    facility is to be located within an unincorporated  area,  at
11    which  information  concerning the proposed facility shall be
12    made available to the public, and members of the public shall
13    be given the opportunity to express  their  views  concerning
14    the proposed facility.
15        The  Agency  may  issue  a  permit  for a municipal waste
16    transfer  station  without  requiring  approval  pursuant  to
17    Section 39.2 provided that  the  following  demonstration  is
18    made:
19             (1)  the  municipal  waste  transfer  station was in
20        existence on  or  before  January  1,  1979  and  was  in
21        continuous  operation  from January 1, 1979 to January 1,
22        1993;
23             (2)  the operator submitted a permit application  to
24        the  Agency  to  develop  and operate the municipal waste
25        transfer station during April of 1994;
26             (3)  the operator can demonstrate  that  the  county
27        board  of  the  county,  if  the municipal waste transfer
28        station is in an unincorporated area,  or  the  governing
29        body  of  the  municipality,  if  the  station  is  in an
30        incorporated area, does not object to resumption  of  the
31        operation of the station; and
32             (4)  the site has local zoning approval.
33        (d)  The  Agency may issue RCRA permits exclusively under
34    this subsection to persons owning or operating a facility for
 
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 1    the treatment, storage, or disposal  of  hazardous  waste  as
 2    defined under this Act.
 3        All   RCRA   permits   shall   contain  those  terms  and
 4    conditions,  including  but  not  limited  to  schedules   of
 5    compliance,  which may be required to accomplish the purposes
 6    and provisions of this Act.  The  Agency  may  include  among
 7    such  conditions standards and other requirements established
 8    under this Act, Board regulations, the Resource  Conservation
 9    and  Recovery  Act  of  1976  (P.L.  94-580), as amended, and
10    regulations pursuant thereto, and may include  schedules  for
11    achieving  compliance  therewith  as  soon  as possible.  The
12    Agency  shall  require  that  a  performance  bond  or  other
13    security be provided as a condition for  the  issuance  of  a
14    RCRA permit.
15        In  the  case of a permit to operate a hazardous waste or
16    PCB incinerator as defined in subsection (k) of  Section  44,
17    the  Agency shall require, as a condition of the permit, that
18    the operator of the facility perform  such  analyses  of  the
19    waste  to  be incinerated as may be necessary and appropriate
20    to ensure the safe operation of the incinerator.
21        The Agency shall adopt filing requirements and procedures
22    which are necessary and appropriate for the issuance of  RCRA
23    permits, and which are consistent with the Act or regulations
24    adopted  by the Board, and with the Resource Conservation and
25    Recovery  Act  of  1976  (P.L.  94-580),  as   amended,   and
26    regulations pursuant thereto.
27        The  applicant  shall  make  available  to the public for
28    inspection all documents submitted by the  applicant  to  the
29    Agency  in  furtherance of an application, with the exception
30    of trade secrets, at  the  office  of  the  county  board  or
31    governing  body  of  the municipality.  Such documents may be
32    copied upon payment of the actual cost of reproduction during
33    regular business hours of the local office.  The Agency shall
34    issue a written statement concurrent with its grant or denial
 
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 1    of the permit explaining the basis for its decision.
 2        (e)  The Agency may issue UIC permits  exclusively  under
 3    this subsection to persons owning or operating a facility for
 4    the  underground  injection  of contaminants as defined under
 5    this Act.
 6        All UIC permits shall contain those terms and conditions,
 7    including but not limited to schedules of  compliance,  which
 8    may  be required to accomplish the purposes and provisions of
 9    this Act.  The  Agency  may  include  among  such  conditions
10    standards  and other requirements established under this Act,
11    Board regulations, the Safe Drinking Water Act (P.L. 93-523),
12    as amended, and regulations pursuant thereto, and may include
13    schedules for  achieving  compliance  therewith.  The  Agency
14    shall  require  that  a performance bond or other security be
15    provided as a condition for the issuance of a UIC permit.
16        The Agency shall adopt filing requirements and procedures
17    which are necessary and appropriate for the issuance  of  UIC
18    permits, and which are consistent with the Act or regulations
19    adopted  by  the  Board, and with the Safe Drinking Water Act
20    (P.L. 93-523), as amended, and regulations pursuant thereto.
21        The applicant shall make  available  to  the  public  for
22    inspection,  all  documents submitted by the applicant to the
23    Agency in furtherance of an application, with  the  exception
24    of  trade  secrets,  at  the  office  of  the county board or
25    governing body of the municipality.  Such  documents  may  be
26    copied upon payment of the actual cost of reproduction during
27    regular business hours of the local office.  The Agency shall
28    issue a written statement concurrent with its grant or denial
29    of the permit explaining the basis for its decision.
30        (f)  In  making any determination pursuant to Section 9.1
31    of this Act:
32             (1)  The Agency shall have  authority  to  make  the
33        determination  of  any question required to be determined
34        by the Clean Air Act, as now or hereafter  amended,  this
 
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 1        Act,  or  the  regulations  of  the  Board, including the
 2        determination of the  Lowest  Achievable  Emission  Rate,
 3        Maximum  Achievable Control Technology, or Best Available
 4        Control   Technology,   consistent   with   the   Board's
 5        regulations, if any.
 6             (2)  The Agency shall,  after  conferring  with  the
 7        applicant,  give  written  notice to the applicant of its
 8        proposed decision on the application including the  terms
 9        and  conditions of the permit to be issued and the facts,
10        conduct or other basis upon which the Agency will rely to
11        support its proposed action.
12             (3)  Following such notice, the  Agency  shall  give
13        the  applicant an opportunity for a hearing in accordance
14        with the provisions of Sections 10-25  through  10-60  of
15        the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
16        (g)  The  Agency  shall  include  as  conditions upon all
17    permits  issued  for  hazardous  waste  disposal  sites  such
18    restrictions upon  the  future  use  of  such  sites  as  are
19    reasonably   necessary  to  protect  public  health  and  the
20    environment, including permanent prohibition of  the  use  of
21    such sites for purposes which may create an unreasonable risk
22    of  injury  to  human  health  or  to the environment.  After
23    administrative and judicial challenges to  such  restrictions
24    have  been exhausted, the Agency shall file such restrictions
25    of record in the Office of the  Recorder  of  the  county  in
26    which the hazardous waste disposal site is located.
27        (h)  A  hazardous  waste stream may not be deposited in a
28    permitted hazardous waste site unless specific  authorization
29    is  obtained  from  the  Agency by the generator and disposal
30    site owner and operator for  the  deposit  of  that  specific
31    hazardous  waste  stream.   The  Agency  may  grant  specific
32    authorization  for  disposal  of hazardous waste streams only
33    after  the  generator  has  reasonably   demonstrated   that,
34    considering    technological    feasibility    and   economic
 
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 1    reasonableness, the  hazardous  waste  cannot  be  reasonably
 2    recycled for reuse, nor incinerated or chemically, physically
 3    or  biologically  treated  so  as to neutralize the hazardous
 4    waste and render it nonhazardous.  In granting  authorization
 5    under  this Section, the Agency may impose such conditions as
 6    may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of  the  Act  and
 7    are  consistent  with this Act and regulations promulgated by
 8    the  Board  hereunder.   If  the  Agency  refuses  to   grant
 9    authorization under this Section, the applicant may appeal as
10    if  the  Agency  refused  to  grant a permit, pursuant to the
11    provisions of subsection (a) of Section 40 of this Act.   For
12    purposes of this subsection (h), the term "generator" has the
13    meaning  given  in  Section 3.12 of this Act, unless: (1) the
14    hazardous  waste  is  treated,  incinerated,   or   partially
15    recycled  for reuse prior to disposal, in which case the last
16    person who treats, incinerates,  or  partially  recycles  the
17    hazardous  waste  prior  to disposal is the generator; or (2)
18    the hazardous waste is from a response action, in which  case
19    the  person  performing the response action is the generator.
20    This subsection (h) does not apply  to  any  hazardous  waste
21    that is restricted from land disposal under 35 Ill. Adm. Code
22    728.
23        (i)  Before  issuing  any RCRA permit or any permit for a
24    waste storage site, sanitary landfill, waste  disposal  site,
25    waste  transfer  station,  waste  treatment  facility,  waste
26    incinerator,   or  any  waste-transportation  operation,  the
27    Agency shall conduct an evaluation of the prospective owner's
28    or  operator's   prior   experience   in   waste   management
29    operations.   The  Agency  may  deny  such  a  permit  if the
30    prospective owner or operator or any employee or  officer  of
31    the prospective owner or operator has a history of:
32             (1)  repeated violations of federal, State, or local
33        laws,   regulations,  standards,  or  ordinances  in  the
34        operation of waste management facilities or sites; or
 
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 1             (2)  conviction in this  or  another  State  of  any
 2        crime  which is a felony under the laws of this State, or
 3        conviction of a felony in a federal court; or
 4             (3)  proof of gross carelessness or incompetence  in
 5        handling,  storing, processing, transporting or disposing
 6        of waste.
 7        (j)  The issuance under this Act of a permit to engage in
 8    the surface mining of any resources other than  fossil  fuels
 9    shall  not relieve the permittee from its duty to comply with
10    any  applicable  local  law  regulating   the   commencement,
11    location or operation of surface mining facilities.
12        (k)  A  development permit issued under subsection (a) of
13    Section 39 for any facility or site which is required to have
14    a permit under subsection (d) of Section 21 shall  expire  at
15    the  end  of 2 calendar years from the date upon which it was
16    issued, unless within that period  the  applicant  has  taken
17    action to develop the facility or the site. In the event that
18    review  of the conditions of the development permit is sought
19    pursuant to Section 40 or 41, or permittee is prevented  from
20    commencing  development  of the facility or site by any other
21    litigation beyond  the  permittee's  control,  such  two-year
22    period  shall  be deemed to begin on the date upon which such
23    review  process or litigation is concluded.
24        (k-5)  A  development  or  construction   permit   issued
25    pursuant  to subsection (c) of this Section for a facility or
26    site that is required to have a permit under  subsection  (d)
27    of  Section  21  of  this  Act for a waste-disposal operation
28    shall expire at the end of 10 calendar years after  the  date
29    upon which it was issued if that facility (i) was exempt from
30    obtaining  local  siting approval pursuant to Section 39.2 of
31    this Act at the time the development or  construction  permit
32    for  that  facility was issued by the Agency and (ii) has not
33    lawfully received  waste  pursuant  to  an  operating  permit
34    issued by the Agency within that 10-year period.
 
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 1        (l)  No  permit  shall be issued by the Agency under this
 2    Act for construction or operation of  any  facility  or  site
 3    located within the boundaries of any setback zone established
 4    pursuant to this Act, where such construction or operation is
 5    prohibited.
 6        (m)  The  Agency  may  issue permits to persons owning or
 7    operating a  facility  for  composting  landscape  waste.  In
 8    granting  such permits, the Agency may impose such conditions
 9    as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of  this  Act,
10    and  as  are  not  inconsistent  with  applicable regulations
11    promulgated by the Board.  Except as  otherwise  provided  in
12    this Act, a bond or other security shall not be required as a
13    condition for the issuance of a permit.  If the Agency denies
14    any  permit  pursuant  to  this  subsection, the Agency shall
15    transmit to the applicant within the time limitations of this
16    subsection specific, detailed statements as  to  the  reasons
17    the  permit  application  was  denied.  Such statements shall
18    include but not be limited to the following:
19             (1)  the Sections of this Act that may  be  violated
20        if the permit were granted;
21             (2)  the  specific  regulations promulgated pursuant
22        to this Act that may  be  violated  if  the  permit  were
23        granted;
24             (3)  the  specific  information,  if any, the Agency
25        deems the applicant did not provide in its application to
26        the Agency; and
27             (4)  a statement of specific reasons why the Act and
28        the regulations might be  violated  if  the  permit  were
29        granted.
30        If  no final action is taken by the Agency within 90 days
31    after the filing of the application for permit, the applicant
32    may deem the permit issued.  Any applicant for a  permit  may
33    waive  the  90  day  limitation by filing a written statement
34    with the Agency.
 
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 1        The Agency shall issue permits for such  facilities  upon
 2    receipt  of  an application that includes a legal description
 3    of the site, a topographic map of the site drawn to the scale
 4    of 200 feet to the inch  or  larger,  a  description  of  the
 5    operation,  including  the  area  served,  an estimate of the
 6    volume of materials to be processed, and documentation that:
 7             (1)  the facility includes a setback of at least 200
 8        feet from the nearest potable water supply well;
 9             (2)  the facility is located outside the boundary of
10        the 10-year floodplain or the site will be floodproofed;
11             (3)  the facility  is  located  so  as  to  minimize
12        incompatibility  with  the  character  of the surrounding
13        area, including at least a  200  foot  setback  from  any
14        residence,  and  in  the  case  of  a  facility  that  is
15        developed  or  the  permitted composting area of which is
16        expanded after November 17, 1991, the composting area  is
17        located  at  least  1/8  mile  from the nearest residence
18        (other than a residence located on the same  property  as
19        the facility);
20             (4)  the  design  of  the  facility will prevent any
21        compost material from being placed within 5 feet  of  the
22        water  table,  will  adequately  control  runoff from the
23        site, and will collect and manage any  leachate  that  is
24        generated on the site;
25             (5)  the  operation  of  the  facility  will include
26        appropriate dust and odor control  measures,  limitations
27        on  operating  hours,  appropriate noise control measures
28        for shredding, chipping and similar equipment, management
29        procedures for composting, containment  and  disposal  of
30        non-compostable   wastes,   procedures  to  be  used  for
31        terminating operations at  the  site,  and  recordkeeping
32        sufficient  to document the amount of materials received,
33        composted and otherwise disposed of; and
34             (6)  the operation will be conducted  in  accordance
 
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 1        with any applicable rules adopted by the Board.
 2        The  Agency  shall  issue renewable permits of not longer
 3    than 10 years in duration for  the  composting  of  landscape
 4    wastes,  as defined in Section 3.70 of this Act, based on the
 5    above requirements.
 6        The  operator  of  any  facility  permitted  under   this
 7    subsection  (m) must submit a written annual statement to the
 8    Agency on or before April 1 of each  year  that  includes  an
 9    estimate  of  the  amount  of material, in tons, received for
10    composting.
11        (n)  The Agency shall  issue  permits  jointly  with  the
12    Department  of  Transportation for the dredging or deposit of
13    material in Lake Michigan in accordance with  Section  18  of
14    the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act.
15        (o)  From  September  4, 1990 until December 31, 1993, no
16    permit shall be issued by the Agency for the  development  or
17    construction  of any new facility intended to be used for the
18    incineration  of any hazardous waste. This  subsection  shall
19    not  apply  to  facilities intended for use for combustion of
20    potentially infectious medical waste, for use as  part  of  a
21    State  or  federally  designated  clean-up action, or for use
22    solely for the conduct of research and  the  development  and
23    demonstration   of   technologies  for  the  incineration  of
24    hazardous waste.
25        (p) (1)  Any  person  submitting  an  application  for  a
26    permit for a new MSWLF unit or for a lateral expansion  under
27    subsection  (t)  of  Section  21  of this Act for an existing
28    MSWLF unit that has not received and is not subject to  local
29    siting  approval under Section 39.2 of this Act shall publish
30    notice  of  the  application  in  a  newspaper   of   general
31    circulation  in  the  county in which the MSWLF unit is or is
32    proposed to be located.  The  notice  must  be  published  at
33    least  15 days before submission of the permit application to
34    the Agency.  The notice shall state the name and  address  of
 
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 1    the  applicant,  the  location  of the MSWLF unit or proposed
 2    MSWLF unit, the nature and size of the MSWLF unit or proposed
 3    MSWLF unit, the nature of the activity proposed, the probable
 4    life  of  the  proposed  activity,  the   date   the   permit
 5    application  will  be submitted, and a statement that persons
 6    may file written comments  with  the  Agency  concerning  the
 7    permit  application  within  30  days after the filing of the
 8    permit application unless the time period to submit  comments
 9    is extended by the Agency.
10        When a permit applicant submits information to the Agency
11    to  supplement  a  permit  application  being reviewed by the
12    Agency, the applicant shall not be required  to  reissue  the
13    notice under this subsection.
14        (2)  The  Agency shall accept written comments concerning
15    the permit application that are postmarked no later  than  30
16    days  after  the filing of the permit application, unless the
17    time period to accept comments is extended by the Agency.
18        (3)  Each applicant for a permit described in part (1) of
19    this subsection shall file a copy of the  permit  application
20    with  the  county board or governing body of the municipality
21    in which the MSWLF unit is or is proposed to  be  located  at
22    the  same  time  the  application is submitted to the Agency.
23    The  permit  application  filed  with  the  county  board  or
24    governing  body  of  the  municipality  shall   include   all
25    documents  submitted  to  or  to  be submitted to the Agency,
26    except trade secrets as determined under Section 7.1 of  this
27    Act.  The permit application and other documents on file with
28    the  county board or governing body of the municipality shall
29    be  made  available  for  public  inspection  during  regular
30    business hours at the office  of  the  county  board  or  the
31    governing  body  of  the  municipality and may be copied upon
32    payment of the actual cost of reproduction.
33    (Source: P.A. 89-487, eff.  6-21-96;  89-556,  eff.  7-26-96;
34    90-14,  eff.  7-1-97;  90-367,  eff.  8-10-97;  90-537,  eff.
 
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 1    11-26-97; 90-655, eff 7-30-98.)

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

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