Section 415 ILCS 5/59.17 - Sequestration annual tonnage fee(a) Beginning July 1, 2025, and each July 1 thereafter, each sequestration operator shall report to the Agency the tons of carbon dioxide injected in the prior 12 months.(b) If the sequestration operator does not possess a project labor agreement, the sequestration operator shall be assessed a per-ton sequestration fee of $0.62.(c) If the sequestration operator does possess a project labor agreement, the sequestration operator shall be assessed a per-ton sequestration fee of $0.31.(d) The fee assessed to the sequestration operator under subsection (b) shall be reduced to $0.31 for every ton of carbon dioxide injected into a sequestration facility in that fiscal year if the sequestration operator successfully demonstrates to the Department that the following types of construction and maintenance were conducted in the State during that fiscal year by the sequestration operator and were performed by contractors and subcontractors signatory to a project labor agreement used by the building and construction trades council with relevant geographic jurisdiction: (1) construction and maintenance of equipment associated with the capture of carbon dioxide, including, but not limited to, all clearing, site preparation, concrete, equipment, and appurtenance installation;(2) construction and maintenance of carbon dioxide pipelines used to transport carbon dioxide streams to the sequestration facility, including, but not limited to, all clearing, site preparation, and site remediation. For purposes of this paragraph (2), a national multi-craft project labor agreement governing pipeline construction and maintenance used in the performance of the work described in this subsection shall satisfy the project labor agreement requirement;(3) construction and maintenance of compressor stations used to assist in the transport of carbon dioxide streams via carbon dioxide pipeline, including, but not limited to, all clearing, site preparation, concrete, equipment, and appurtenance installation; and(4) construction of carbon dioxide injection wells used at the sequestration facility, including, but not limited to, all clearing, site preparation, drilling, distribution piping, concrete, equipment, and appurtenance installation.(e) Sequestration fees shall be deposited into the Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Administrative Fund.(f) The per-ton fee for carbon dioxide injected shall be increased by an amount equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for all items published by the United States Department of Labor for the 12 months ending in March of the year in which the increase takes place. The rate shall be rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of one cent.(g) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, at the direction of the Agency, in consultation with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security, and the Department of Natural Resources, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer from the Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Administrative Fund the following percentages of the amounts collected under this Act by the Agency during the previous fiscal year: (1) 2% to the Water Resources Fund;(2) 6% to the Oil and Gas Resource Management Fund;(3) 20% to the Emergency Planning and Training Fund;(4) 28% to the Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Long-Term Trust Fund;(5) 10% to the General Revenue Fund; and(6) 24% to the Environmental Justice Grant Fund.Added by P.A. 103-0651,§ 55, eff. 7/18/2024.