Illinois Compiled Statutes 415 Environmental Safety: Article V - Land Pollution and Refuse Disposal
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 20
(a) The General Assembly finds: (1) that economic and population growth and new methods of manufacture, packaging, and marketing, without the parallel growth of...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 20.1
(a) The Agency shall conduct a survey and prepare and publish a list of sites in the State where hazardous waste has been deposited,...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 21
Prohibited acts. No person shall: (a) Cause or allow the open dumping of any waste. (b) Abandon, dump, or deposit any waste upon the public...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 21.1
(a) Except as provided in subsection (a.5), no person other than the State of Illinois, its agencies and institutions, or a unit of local government...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 21.2
(a) After June 30, 1988, no person may sell or offer for sale at retail in this State any metal beverage container acquired by...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 21.3
Environmental reclamation lien. (a) All costs and damages for which a person is liable to the State of Illinois under Section 22.2, 22.15a, 55.3, or...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 21.4
(a) The Agency is hereby authorized to acquire the fee or any lesser interest, including easements, in real property where necessary or appropriate: (1)...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 21.5
Toxic packaging reduction. (a) For the purposes of this Section, the following terms have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection: "Distributor" means...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 21.6
Materials disposal ban. (a) Beginning July 1, 1996, no person may knowingly mix liquid used oil with any municipal waste that is intended for collection...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22
In accord with Title VII of this Act, the Board may adopt regulations to promote the purposes of this Title. Without limiting the generality...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.01
Manifests for nonhazardous special waste. When manifests are required by the Board for the shipment of nonhazardous special waste, such manifests shall be identical...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.2
Hazardous waste; fees; liability. (a) There are hereby created within the State Treasury 2 special funds to be known respectively as the "Hazardous Waste Fund"...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.2a
(a) Whenever practicable and in the public interest, the State of Illinois shall reach a final settlement with a potentially responsible party in an...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.2b
Limit of liability for prospective purchasers of real property. (a) The State of Illinois may grant a release of liability that provides that a...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.2c
Adjacent site remediation; injunction. If remediation of real property contaminated by hazardous substances or petroleum products cannot be reasonably accomplished without entering onto land...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.2d
Authority of Director to issue orders. (a) The purpose of this Section is to allow the Director to quickly and effectively respond to a release...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.3
The owner and operator of a hazardous waste disposal site shall, without limitation, be responsible for the site for a period of 20 years...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.3a
Expedited review of hazardous waste corrective action. (a) It is the intent of this Section to promote an expedited RCRA hazardous waste corrective action...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.4
Hazardous waste; underground storage tanks; regulations. (a) In accordance with Section 7.2, the Board shall adopt regulations which are identical in substance to federal...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.5
By July 1, 1984, the Board shall adopt standards for the certification of personnel to operate refuse disposal facilities or sites. Such standards shall...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.6
(a) Commencing July 1, 1984, no person shall cause, threaten or allow the disposal in any landfill of any liquid hazardous waste unless specific...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.7
(a) (Blank). (b) The Board may adopt regulations relating to a state contingency plan which are not identical in substance to federal regulations promulgated...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.8
Environmental Protection Permit and Inspection Fund. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Environmental Protection...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.9
Special waste determinations. (a) (Blank.) (b) Not later than December 1, 1990, the Pollution Control Board shall, pursuant to Title VII of the Act,...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.10
The Agency may issue permits which authorize owners or operators of treatment, storage and disposal facilities to receive Agency approved categories of waste from...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.12
(a) The Agency shall coordinate with the Office of the State Fire Marshal in the administration of the Leaking Underground Storage Tank program, as...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.13
(Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-496.)
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.14
(a) No person may establish any pollution control facility for use as a garbage transfer station, which is located less than 1000 feet from...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.15
Solid Waste Management Fund; fees. (a) There is hereby created within the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the "Solid Waste Management...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.15a
Open dumping cleanup program. (a) Upon making a finding that open dumping poses a threat to the public health or to the environment, the Agency...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.16
Fee exemptions. (a) The Agency shall grant exemptions from the fee requirements of Section 22.15 of this Act for permanent disposal or transport of...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.16a
Additional fee exemptions. (a) In accordance with the findings and purposes of the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act, the Agency shall grant exemptions from...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.16b
(a) Beginning January 1, 1991, the Agency shall assess and collect a fee from the owner or operator of each new municipal waste incinerator. The...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.17
Landfill post-closure care. (a) The owner and operator of a sanitary landfill site that is not a site subject to subsection (a.5) or (a.10)...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.18
(Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-496.)
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.18b
(Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-496.)
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.18c
(Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-496.)
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.19
(a) Counties with 200,000 or more inhabitants but fewer than 300,000 inhabitants, which border on the Mississippi River, may by ordinance set reasonable operating...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.19a
Floodplain. (a) On and after January 1, 1998, no sanitary landfill or waste disposal site that is a pollution control facility, or any part...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.19b
Postclosure care requirements. (a) For those sanitary landfills and waste disposal sites located within the boundary of the 100-year floodplain pursuant to paragraph (3)...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.20
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-820. Repealed by P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.21
During operation of a pollution control facility, the operator shall comply with the safety standards relating to construction established pursuant to the federal Occupational...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.22
Landscape waste. (a) Beginning July 1, 1990, no person may knowingly mix landscape waste that is intended for collection or for disposal at a...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.23
Batteries. (a) Beginning September 1, 1990, any person selling lead-acid batteries at retail or offering lead-acid batteries for retail sale in this State shall: (1)...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.23a
Fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamps. (a) As used in this Section, "fluorescent or high intensity discharge lamp" means a lighting device that contains...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.23b
Mercury and mercury-added products. (a) Beginning July 1, 2005, no person shall purchase or accept, for use in a primary or secondary school classroom, bulk...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.23c
Vehicle wheel weights. (a) In this Section: "New vehicle" has the same meaning as ascribed in Section 1-148.4 of the Illinois Vehicle Code. "Vehicle" has...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.24
(a) Beginning January 1, 1990, no person may operate any landfill in any county with a population over 275,000, as determined by the latest...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.26
The Agency shall not issue a development or construction permit after December 31, 1990 for any composting facility, unless the applicant has given notice thereof...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.27
Alternative Daily Cover for Sanitary Landfills. (a) If the Agency determines that any or all chemical foams provides a cover material that is as...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.28
White goods. (a) Beginning July 1, 1994, no person shall knowingly offer for collection or collect white goods for the purpose of disposal by...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.28a
White goods handled by scrap dealership or junkyard. (a) No owner, operator, agent, or employee of a junkyard or scrap dealership may knowingly shred,...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.29
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c), any waste material generated by processing recyclable metals by shredding shall be managed as a special waste...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.30
Grease trap sludge. (a) As used in this Section: (i) "treatment works" has the meaning provided in Section 19.2 of this Act and (ii)...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.31
Waste reporting. (a) Beginning January 1, 1992, no landfill or incinerator operator may accept any nonhazardous solid waste for permanent disposal or incineration unless...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.32
Hospital waste assessment. (a) On or before June 1, 1992, each hospital burning potentially infectious medical waste on site or transporting such waste to...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.33
Compost quality standards. (a) By January 1, 1994, the Agency shall develop and make recommendations to the Board concerning (i) performance standards for landscape waste...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.34
Organic waste compost quality standards. (a) The Agency may develop and make recommendations to the Board concerning (i) performance standards for organic waste compost facilities...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.35
Mixed municipal waste compost quality standards. (a) By January 1, 1994, the Agency shall develop and make recommendations to the Board concerning (i) performance...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.36
Solid waste disposal site; underground hazards. (a) The Agency may not issue any new permit for the construction or development of any solid waste...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.38
Facilities accepting exclusively general construction or demolition debris for transfer, storage, or treatment. (a) Facilities accepting exclusively general construction or demolition debris for transfer, storage,...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.40
Municipal solid waste landfill rules. (a) In accordance with Sec. 7.2, the Board shall adopt rules that are identical in substance to federal regulations...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.41
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 88-496. Repealed by P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.42
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 88-496. Repealed by P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.43
Permit modifications for lateral expansions. The Agency may issue a permit modification for a lateral expansion, as defined in Section 3.275 of this Act,...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.43a
Establishment and expansion of landfills; ban in counties with more than 2,000,000 inhabitants. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall establish, nor...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.44
Subtitle D management fees. (a) There is created within the State treasury a special fund to be known as the "Subtitle D Management Fund" constituted...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.45
Subtitle D management fee exemptions; pre-existing contracts. (a) The Agency shall grant exemptions from the fee requirements of Section 22.44 of this Act for...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.46
Subtitle D management fee exemptions; types of waste. (a) In accordance with the findings and purpose of the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act, the...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.47
School district hazardous educational waste collection. (a) The Agency shall develop, implement, and fund (through appropriations for that purpose from the General Revenue Fund)...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.48
Non-special waste certification; effect on permit. (a) An industrial process waste or pollution control waste not within the exception set forth in subdivision (2)...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.49
Animal cremation. Unless subject to the requirements of Title XV of this Act as potentially infectious medical waste, a deceased companion animal, as defined...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.50
Compliance with land use limitations. No person shall use, or cause or allow the use of, any site for which a land use limitation has...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.50a
Compliance with environmental covenants. No person shall use, or cause or allow the use of, any site subject to an environmental covenant created under the...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.51
Clean Construction or Demolition Debris Fill Operations. (a) No person shall conduct any clean construction or demolition debris fill operation in violation of this Act...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.51a
Uncontaminated Soil Fill Operations. (a) For purposes of this Section: (1) The term "uncontaminated soil" shall have the same meaning as uncontaminated soil under Section...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.51b
Fees for permitted facilities accepting clean construction or demolition debris or uncontaminated soil. (a) The Agency shall assess and collect a fee from the owner...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.52
Conflict of interest. Effective 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, none of the following persons shall...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.53
Computer Equipment Disposal and Recycling Commission. (a) The General Assembly finds that improper disposal of computer equipment presents a serious environmental threat. Computer equipment contains...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.54
Beneficial Use Determinations. The purpose of this Section is to allow the Agency to determine that a material otherwise required to be managed as waste...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 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...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.55
Household Waste Drop-off Points. (a) Findings; Purpose and Intent. (1) The General Assembly finds that protection of human health and the environment can be enhanced...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.56
Regulation of farm land sludge application. (a) Any person applying sludge, as defined in Section 3.465 of this Act, to agricultural farm land in this...
- Illinois Environmental Protection Act. - 415 ILCS 5, Section 22.57
Perchloroethylene in drycleaning. (a) For the purposes of this Section: "Drycleaning" means the process of cleaning clothing, garments, textiles, fabrics, leather goods, or other like...
Last modified: February 18, 2015