Bill Text: IL HB5066 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings Control Act. Provides that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security may approve a request for license termination following adoption and implantation by the municipality or county in which the material milling facility is located of one or more ordinances restricting the use of groundwater on the property that has been licensed for the milling of source material and the property downgradient from that property if the ordinance ensures public health and safety and is in effect at the time of license termination. Requires the ordinances adopted for the purpose of terminating a license to remain in effect until the Agency approves in writing that the ordinances are no longer needed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5066 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5066-Introduced.html

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5066

Introduced , by Rep. Maura Hirschauer

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
420 ILCS 42/32

Amends the Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings Control Act. Provides that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security may approve a request for license termination following adoption and implantation by the municipality or county in which the material milling facility is located of one or more ordinances restricting the use of groundwater on the property that has been licensed for the milling of source material and the property downgradient from that property if the ordinance ensures public health and safety and is in effect at the time of license termination. Requires the ordinances adopted for the purpose of terminating a license to remain in effect until the Agency approves in writing that the ordinances are no longer needed.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning safety.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings Control
5Act is amended by changing Section 32 as follows:
6 (420 ILCS 42/32)
7 Sec. 32. Limitations on groundwater and property use.
8 (a) In connection with the decommissioning of a source
9material milling facility or the termination of the facility's
10license, the Agency shall have the authority to adopt by rule,
11or impose by order or license amendment or condition,
12restrictions on the use of groundwater on any property that
13has been licensed for the milling of source material and any
14property downgradient from the property that has been licensed
15for the milling of source material where the groundwater
16impacted by a licensed facility has constituents above
17naturally-occurring levels and is in excess of the groundwater
18standards enforceable by the Agency.
19 (a-5) As an alternative to the method prescribed in
20subsection (a), the Agency may approve a request for license
21termination following adoption and implementation by the
22municipality or county in which the material milling facility
23is located of one or more ordinances restricting the use of

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1groundwater on the property that has been licensed for the
2milling of source material and the property downgradient from
3that property, provided that the ordinances are determined by
4the Agency to provide sufficient protection of public health
5and safety and the ordinances are in effect at the time of
6license termination.
7 (a-6) For Agency actions based upon subsection (a-5), the
8ordinances in effect at the time of license termination shall
9remain in effect until the Agency expressly approves in
10writing that the ordinances are no longer required.
11 (b) In connection with the decommissioning of a source
12material milling facility or the termination of the facility's
13license, the Agency shall have the authority to adopt by rule,
14or impose by order or license amendment or condition,
15restrictions on property that has been licensed for the
16milling of source material where the soil has constituents
17above naturally-occurring levels to limit or prohibit:
18 (1) the construction of basements or other similar
19 below-ground structures, other than footings or pilings,
20 on any portion of the property where elevated levels of
21 the constituents are present in the soil; and
22 (2) the excavation of soil from a portion of the
23 property where elevated levels of the constituents are
24 present in the excavated soil, unless the excavated soil
25 is (i) disposed of in a facility licensed or permitted to
26 dispose of that soil or (ii) returned to the approximate

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