Public Act 0542 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB2226 Enrolled LRB098 10733 JDS 41076 b

Public Act 098-0542

AN ACT concerning safety.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by adding Section 22.54a as follows:

(415 ILCS 5/22.54a new)

Sec. 22.54a. Disposal of asphalt roofing shingles. No owner or operator of a sanitary landfill that is located within a 25-mile radius of a site where asphalt roofing shingles are recycled under a Beneficial Use Determination (BUD) issued by the Agency pursuant to Section 22.54 of this Act shall accept for disposal loads of whole or processed asphalt roofing shingles. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit or restrict a sanitary landfill from accepting for disposal asphalt roofing shingles that are commingled with municipal waste, including, but not limited to, general construction or demolition debris.

The Agency shall post on its website the name and address of each site at which the recycling of asphalt roofing shingles under a BUD is approved.

No later than January 31 of each year, each recipient of a BUD for asphalt roofing shingles shall submit a report to the Agency that contains the following information: (i) the total quantity of asphalt roofing shingles received under the BUD during the previous calendar year; (ii) the beneficial uses during the previous calendar year of shingles received under the BUD; (iii) the total quantity of shingles used in each beneficial use during the previous calendar year; and (iv) the total quantity and disposition of any shingles received but not beneficially used under the BUD during the previous calendar year. The report must be submitted on a form and in a format prescribed by the Agency.

This Section is repealed on February 1, 2018.

Effective Date: 1/1/2014