Bill Text: IL HB5283 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides gas collection and control system requirements for municipal solid waste landfills, including requirements for gas to be collected from each area in which solid waste has been in place for at least one year, for gas to be drawn toward the gas control devices, for a gas collection and control system to be installed within 12 months of reaching certain thresholds, for gas collection and control design plans to provide for alternative preliminary measures, and for the methane destruction efficiency of flared systems to reach 99%.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5283 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5283-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5283 Introduced , by Rep. Joyce Mason SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 5/22.40c new
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides gas collection and control system requirements for municipal solid waste landfills, including requirements for gas to be collected from each area in which solid waste has been in place for at least one year, for gas to be drawn toward the gas control devices, for a gas collection and control system to be installed within 12 months of reaching certain thresholds, for gas collection and control design plans to provide for alternative preliminary measures, and for the methane destruction efficiency of flared systems to reach 99%.
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A BILL FOR
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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 22.40c as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/22.40c new)
Sec. 22.40c. Gas Collection and Control System
Requirements. Each owner or operator of a municipal solid
waste landfill that meets 40 CFR 60.33c and relevant federal
regulatory requirements to install a gas collection and
control system must fulfill the following requirements:
(1) The owner or operator must, in the case of an
active municipal solid waste landfill, operate the gas
collection and control system so that gas is collected
from each area, cell, or group of cells in the municipal
solid waste landfill in which solid waste has been in
place for one year or more.
(2) The owner or operator must estimate when the
landfill will reach the thresholds identified in 40 CFR
60.33c and relevant federal regulatory requirements
requiring installation of a gas collection and control
system, install a gas collection and control system within
12 months after that estimated date, and operate the gas

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