Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 415 - ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
415 ILCS 10/ - Local Solid Waste Disposal Act.

(415 ILCS 10/1) (from Ch. 85, par. 5901)
Sec. 1.

This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Local Solid
Waste Disposal Act".

(Source: P.A. 84-963.)

(415 ILCS 10/1.1) (from Ch. 85, par. 5901.1)
Sec. 1.1.

It is the purpose of this Act and the policy of this State
to protect the public health and welfare and the quality of the environment
by providing local governments with the ability to properly dispose of
solid waste within their jurisdictions by preparing and implementing,
either individually or jointly, solid waste management plans for the
disposal of solid waste and, to the extent technically and economically
feasible, to efficiently use products or by-products generated during the
disposal process.

(Source: P.A. 85-882.)

(415 ILCS 10/2) (from Ch. 85, par. 5902)
Sec. 2.
As used in this Act, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Solid waste" means "waste", as defined in the Illinois
Environmental Protection Act, but for the purposes of this Act does not
include "hazardous waste" as defined in that Act.
(2) "Unit of local government" means a municipality, county, or a
Municipal Joint Action Agency created under Section 3.2 of the
Intergovernmental Cooperation Act or, if the context requires, the member
municipalities of such an agency or their territory.
(3) "Pollution control facility" has the meaning ascribed to
the term in the Illinois Environmental Protection Act, except
that the term shall not include sewers and sewage treatment
facilities owned or operated by sanitary districts.
(4) "Jurisdiction" means: (1) in the case of a municipality, the
territory within the corporate limits of the municipality; (2) in the case
of a county, the territory within the corporate limits of the county which
does not lie within the corporate limits of any municipality which has
adopted and is implementing a plan under this Act either independently or
through a Municipal Joint Action Agency; and (3) in
the case of a Municipal Joint Action Agency, the territory within the
corporate limits of each member municipality.
(5) "Qualified solid waste energy facility" means either (i) a
solid waste pollution control facility or a portion
thereof owned or operated by or for the benefit of a unit of local
government and developed under this Act, which meets the
requirements set forth in Section 3.1 of this Act, or (ii) a facility
which uses methane gas generated from landfills.
(6) "Municipal waste" means garbage, general household, institutional
and commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or office waste, landscape waste,
and construction and demolition debris.

(Source: P.A. 87-650; 88-681, eff. 12-22-94.)

(415 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 85, par. 5903)
Sec. 3.

Units of local government may, on their own behalf or pursuant
to an intergovernmental agreement under Section 4, prepare solid waste
management plans for disposal of solid waste generated within their
jurisdictions. No such plans, however, shall be implemented prior to July
1, 1986. Such plans, if prepared, shall include provisions
for, but need not be limited to, the following:
(Source: P.A. 87-650.)

(415 ILCS 10/3.1) (from Ch. 85, par. 5903.1)
Sec. 3.1.

If a solid waste management plan prepared and implemented
under Section 3 of this Act, Section 2 of the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act,
Section 22.15 of the Environmental Protection Act,
or Section 4 of the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act, or the
Energy Facility Plan, specifies that incineration shall be a means used
by a facility to meet waste disposal needs within a jurisdiction, that
facility shall be deemed a qualified solid waste energy facility if it
meets the following requirements:
(1) The operator annually certifies to the Illinois Commerce
Commission that solid waste is the primary fuel and comprises no less than
95% of the annual fuel loading.
(2) The operator guarantees that the solid waste throughput volume shall
be equal to at least 66% of the design capacity of the facility.
(3) (A) A solid waste management plan has been developed by the unit or units of local government included in the area that is intended to be served by the facility and has been filed with and approved by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to subsection (g) of Section 22.15 of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act or pursuant to Section 5 of the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Any such plan shall establish a recycling goal of a minimum of 25% by weight of the solid waste stream generated within the planning area; or
(4) A good faith effort has been made by the unit or units of local
government served by the facility or the owner or operator of the
facility to achieve the 25% recycling goal at the
time the facility commences commercial operation and thereafter.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

(415 ILCS 10/4) (from Ch. 85, par. 5904)
Sec. 4.

A unit of local government may enter into intergovernmental
agreements to prepare and implement solid waste management plans, and may
adopt those procedures for the preparation and implementation of plans
the contracting parties deem appropriate. A unit of local government may
delegate any power to another unit of local government for the specific
purpose of preparing and implementing a solid waste management plan.
However, no plan prepared pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement under
the authority of this Section shall provide for the siting of a new pollution control facility within the incorporated area of any
municipality or the unincorporated area of any county which is not a
signatory to the agreement without the consent of the municipality or county.
It is the intent of the General Assembly that any action taken pursuant
to this Act by one or more units of local government, acting individually
or jointly, shall be deemed to be State action for purposes of the
application of federal antitrust law, and no such action shall be
prohibited by virtue of any anticompetitive effect it may produce.

(Source: P.A. 88-681, eff. 12-22-94.)

(415 ILCS 10/5) (from Ch. 85, par. 5905)
Sec. 5.

An annual report shall be prepared on the
implementation, review and updating of the solid waste management plan.
The report shall include the following:
(a) An accounting of the quantity of waste received by those
pollution control facilities included in the plan;
(b) If revenue bonds have been issued to finance a new
pollution control facility, an accounting of the adequacy of the quantity
of waste flow, and the effectiveness of those measures taken to guarantee a
waste flow to the facility to ensure that all bond obligations will
be satisfied;
(c) If the new pollution control facility called for by the
plan has not gone into operation, a report on the progress made towards
bringing the facility into operation, including those additional measures
not previously identified in the plan which are intended to be implemented,
which would guarantee a constant flow of a given amount of solid waste to a
given facility or facilities;
(d) A review of the 5 year solid waste forecast and the adequacy of the
policies provided for in the certified plan to meet that projected solid
waste disposal need; and
(e) Every fifth year after the certification of the plan, a review of
the 20 year solid waste forecast and the adequacy of the policies provided
for in the certified plan to meet that projected solid waste disposal need.

(Source: P.A. 88-681, eff. 12-22-94.)

(415 ILCS 10/6) (from Ch. 85, par. 5906)
Sec. 6.

In accordance with the provisions set forth in Section
11-19-7 of the Illinois Municipal Code and Section 5-1047 of
the Counties Code, units of local government may provide by ordinance, license,
contract or other means that the methods of disposal of solid waste shall
be the exclusive methods of disposal to be allowed within their respective
jurisdictions, notwithstanding the fact that competition may be displaced
or that such ordinance, license, contract or other measure may have an
anti-competitive effect.

(Source: P.A. 86-1475.)