PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

(415 ILCS 5/7.5) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1007.5) (Text of Section from P.A. 104-466) Sec. 7.5. Filing fees. (a) The Board shall collect filing fees as prescribed in this Act. The fees shall be deposited into the Pollution Control Board Fund. The filing fees shall be as follows: Petition for site-specific regulation, $250. Petition for variance, $250. Petition for review of permit, $250. Petition to contest local government decision pursuant to Section 40.1, $250. Petition for an adjusted standard, pursuant to Section 28.1, $250. Petition for a time-limited water quality standard, $250 per petitioner. On July 1, 2027 and each July 1 thereafter, the filing fees charged under this Section shall each be increased by an amount equal to the annual unadjusted percentage increase (but not less than zero) in the Consumer Price Index-U for the 12 months ending with the March preceding each July 1, including all previous adjustments, rounded down to the nearest whole number. As used in this Section, "Consumer Price Index-U" means the index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that measures the average change in prices of goods and services purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average, all items, 1982-84 = 100. (b) A person who has filed a petition for a variance from a water quality standard and paid the filing fee set forth in subsection (a) of this Section for that petition and whose variance petition is thereafter converted into a petition for a time-limited water quality standard under Section 38.5 of this Act shall not be required to pay a separate filing fee upon the conversion of the variance petition into a petition for a time-limited water quality standard. (Source: P.A. 104-466, eff. 7-1-26.) (Text of Section from P.A. 104-468) Sec. 7.5. Filing fees. (a) The Board shall collect filing fees as prescribed in this Act. The fees shall be deposited in the Pollution Control Board Fund. The filing fees shall be as follows: Petition for site-specific regulation, $250. Petition for variance, $250. Petition for review of permit, $250. Petition to contest local government decision pursuant to Section 40.1, $250. Petition for an adjusted standard, pursuant to Section 28.1, $250. Petition for a time-limited water quality standard, $250 per petitioner. On July 1, 2027 and each July 1 thereafter, the filing fees charged under this subsection shall each be increased by an amount equal to the annual unadjusted percentage increase in the consumer price index-u for the 12 months ending with the March preceding each July 1, including all previous adjustments. In this subsection, "consumer price index-u" means the index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that measures the average change in prices of goods and services purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average, all items, 1982-84=100. (b) A person who has filed a petition for a variance from a water quality standard and paid the filing fee set forth in subsection (a) of this Section for that petition and whose variance petition is thereafter converted into a petition for a time-limited water quality standard under Section 38.5 of this Act shall not be required to pay a separate filing fee upon the conversion of the variance petition into a petition for a time-limited water quality standard. (Source: P.A. 104-468, eff. 7-1-26.)