Bill Text: IL SB1160 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Renewable Energy Component Recycling Task Force Act. Provides that the REC Recycling Task Force shall consider the benefits of prohibiting a person from mixing renewable energy generation components and energy storage systems with municipal waste that is intended for disposal at a landfill and consider the benefits of prohibiting a person from disposing of renewable energy generation components and energy storage systems in a sanitary landfill. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)

Status: (Passed) 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0376 [SB1160 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1160-Engrossed.html

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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 Renewable Energy Component Recycling Task
Force Act is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
(20 ILCS 4118/15)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2025)
Sec. 15. Duties and report.
(a) The REC Recycling Task Force shall have the following
duties:
(1) Investigate options for recycling and other end of
life management methods for renewable energy generation
components and energy storage devices in accordance with
State and federal requirements.
(2) Identify preferred methods to safely and
responsibly manage end of life renewable energy generating
components and energy storage devices, including the reuse
or refurbishment.
(3) Consider the economic and environmental costs and
benefits associated with each method of recycling or end
of life management identified.
(4) Project the economically productive life cycle of
various types of renewable energy generating equipment and

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energy storage systems currently in use or planned for
development in this State and model the impact that may be
expected to the State's landfill capacity if landfill
disposal is permitted for all such equipment and storage
systems at end of life.
(5) Survey federal and other states' and countries'
regulatory requirements relating to the end of life
management, decommissioning, and financial assurance
requirements for owners, operators, developers, and
manufacturers of renewable energy generation components
and energy storage systems.
(6) Identify infrastructure that may be needed to
develop a practical, effective, and cost-efficient means
to collect and transport end of life renewable generation
components and energy storage systems in State for reuse,
refurbishment, recycling, or disposal.
(7) Receive stakeholder engagement and feedback on
various recycling and end of life management proposals for
renewable energy generation components and energy storage
systems.
(8) Develop recommendations for legislative,
administrative, or private sector action to implement
recycling and end of life management for renewable energy
generation components and energy storage systems.
(9) Consider the benefits of prohibiting a person from
mixing renewable energy generation components and energy

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storage systems with municipal waste that is intended for
disposal at a landfill.
(10) Consider the benefits of prohibiting a person
from disposing of renewable energy generation components
and energy storage systems in a sanitary landfill.
(b) The REC Recycling Task Force shall submit a final
report on activities conducted pursuant to this Act with
findings, including stakeholder input, to the General Assembly
and the Governor's Office no later than July 1, 2025.
(Source: P.A. 102-1025, eff. 5-27-22.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.