Environmental Protection Act
Illinois · Environmental Safety · §§ 415-5-1 to 415-5-7-6 · 124 sections
Overview
The Environmental Protection Act establishes a comprehensive statutory framework for regulating pollution and waste within a state, covering air pollution, water supply and groundwater, hazardous substances, and the handling and disposal of solid, industrial, and coal combustion wastes. It creates an administrative structure — typically an environmental agency paired with a rulemaking and adjudicatory board, working alongside a state department — with authority to set standards and criteria governing contaminants and regulated facilities. The act supplies detailed definitions for the substances, sites, and equipment it reaches, providing the vocabulary that drives permitting, control, and enforcement obligations across its substantive titles.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
Sections covered
- 415 ILCS 5/1This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Environmental Protection Act"
- 415 ILCS 5/2Environmental Safety › 415 ILCS 5 — Environmental Protection Act › Title I — : General Provisions
- 415 ILCS 5/3Definitions
- 415 ILCS 5/3.102100-year flood
- 415 ILCS 5/3.103100-year floodplain
- 415 ILCS 5/3.105Agency
- 415 ILCS 5/3.110Agrichemical facility
- 415 ILCS 5/3.115Air pollution
- 415 ILCS 5/3.120Air pollution control equipment
- 415 ILCS 5/3.125Biodeterioration; biodegradation
- 415 ILCS 5/3.130Board
- 415 ILCS 5/3.131Clean energy
- 415 ILCS 5/3.135Coal combustion by-product; CCB
- 415 ILCS 5/3.140Coal combustion waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.141Notice of power plant demolition
- 415 ILCS 5/3.142Coal combustion residual; CCR
- 415 ILCS 5/3.143CCR surface impoundment
- 415 ILCS 5/3.145Community water supply; non-community water supply
- 415 ILCS 5/3.150Compost
- 415 ILCS 5/3.155Composting
- 415 ILCS 5/3.160Construction or demolition debris
- 415 ILCS 5/3.165Contaminant
- 415 ILCS 5/3.170Contamination; contaminate
- 415 ILCS 5/3.175Criterion
- 415 ILCS 5/3.180Department
- 415 ILCS 5/3.185Disposal
- 415 ILCS 5/3.190Existing fuel combustion stationary emission source
- 415 ILCS 5/3.195Fluid
- 415 ILCS 5/3.197Food scrap
- 415 ILCS 5/3.200Garbage
- 415 ILCS 5/3.205Generator
- 415 ILCS 5/3.207Greenhouse gases
- 415 ILCS 5/3.210Groundwater
- 415 ILCS 5/3.215Hazardous substance
- 415 ILCS 5/3.220Hazardous waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.225Hazardous waste disposal site
- 415 ILCS 5/3.230Household waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.235Industrial process waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.240Intermittent control system
- 415 ILCS 5/3.245Label
- 415 ILCS 5/3.250Labeling
- 415 ILCS 5/3.255Land form
- 415 ILCS 5/3.260Landfill gas recovery facility
- 415 ILCS 5/3.265Landfill waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.270Landscape waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.275Lateral expansion
- 415 ILCS 5/3.280Lawncare wash water containment area
- 415 ILCS 5/3.282Livestock waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.283Mercury relay
- 415 ILCS 5/3.284Mercury switch
- 415 ILCS 5/3.285Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Unit; MSWLF unit
- 415 ILCS 5/3.290Municipal waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.295Municipality
- 415 ILCS 5/3.298Nonattainment new source review (NA NSR) permit
- 415 ILCS 5/3.300Open burning
- 415 ILCS 5/3.305Open dumping
- 415 ILCS 5/3.310Organized amateur or professional sporting activity
- 415 ILCS 5/3.315Person
- 415 ILCS 5/3.320Pesticide
- 415 ILCS 5/3.325Pesticide release
- 415 ILCS 5/3.330Pollution control facility
- 415 ILCS 5/3.335Pollution control waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.340Potable
- 415 ILCS 5/3.345Potential primary source
- 415 ILCS 5/3.350Potential route
- 415 ILCS 5/3.355Potential secondary source
- 415 ILCS 5/3.360Potentially infectious medical waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.363Prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) permit
- 415 ILCS 5/3.365Public water supply
- 415 ILCS 5/3.370RCRA permit
- 415 ILCS 5/3.375Recycling center
- 415 ILCS 5/3.380Recycling, reclamation or reuse
- 415 ILCS 5/3.385Refuse
- 415 ILCS 5/3.390Regulated recharge area
- 415 ILCS 5/3.395Release
- 415 ILCS 5/3.400Remedial action
- 415 ILCS 5/3.405Remove; removal
- 415 ILCS 5/3.410Re-refined oil
- 415 ILCS 5/3.415Resident
- 415 ILCS 5/3.420Resource conservation
- 415 ILCS 5/3.425Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; RCRA
- 415 ILCS 5/3.430Resource groundwater
- 415 ILCS 5/3.435Resource recovery
- 415 ILCS 5/3.440Respond; response
- 415 ILCS 5/3.445Sanitary landfill
- 415 ILCS 5/3.450Setback zone
- 415 ILCS 5/3.455Sewage works
- 415 ILCS 5/3.458Sharps collection station
- 415 ILCS 5/3.460Site
- 415 ILCS 5/3.465Sludge
- 415 ILCS 5/3.470Solid waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.475Special waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.480Storage
- 415 ILCS 5/3.485Storage site
- 415 ILCS 5/3.487Surface discharging private sewage disposal system
- 415 ILCS 5/3.488Time-limited water quality standard
- 415 ILCS 5/3.490Trade secret
- 415 ILCS 5/3.495Transfer container
- 415 ILCS 5/3.500Transfer station
- 415 ILCS 5/3.505Treatment
- 415 ILCS 5/3.510Underground injection
- 415 ILCS 5/3.515Unit
- 415 ILCS 5/3.520Used oil
- 415 ILCS 5/3.525Vegetable by-products
- 415 ILCS 5/3.530Virgin oil
- 415 ILCS 5/3.535Waste
- 415 ILCS 5/3.540Waste disposal site
- 415 ILCS 5/3.545Water pollution
- 415 ILCS 5/3.550Waters
- 415 ILCS 5/3.555Well
- 415 ILCS 5/3.560Exceptional Quality biosolids
- 415 ILCS 5/4Environmental Protection Agency; establishment; duties
- 415 ILCS 5/4.1(Repealed)
- 415 ILCS 5/5Pollution Control Board
- 415 ILCS 5/5.1(Repealed)
- 415 ILCS 5/6.1Environmental Safety › 415 ILCS 5 — Environmental Protection Act › Title I — : General Provisions
- 415 ILCS 5/6.2(Repealed)
- 415 ILCS 5/7Public inspection; fees
- 415 ILCS 5/7.1Environmental Safety › 415 ILCS 5 — Environmental Protection Act › Title I — : General Provisions
- 415 ILCS 5/7.2Identical in substance rulemakings
- 415 ILCS 5/7.3Environmental Safety › 415 ILCS 5 — Environmental Protection Act › Title I — : General Provisions
- 415 ILCS 5/7.4All moneys received by the Pollution Control Board from the collection of fees, photo reproduction costs and the sale of opinions and orders, shall be deposited into the Pollution Control Board Fund, a special fund which is hereby created in the State Treasury
- 415 ILCS 5/7.5Filing fees
- 415 ILCS 5/7.6Electronic posting of permit information
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