220 ILCS 31/1-25

(220 ILCS 31/1-25)

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

Sec. 1-25. Procedures for preliminary and final integrated resource plans for municipal power agencies and municipalities.

(a) Each municipal power agency or municipality shall issue its preliminary integrated resource plan, as set forth in this Act, and post it publicly to the website maintained by the municipal power agency or municipality by January 1, 12 months following the date of the calendar year for which the planning is required to begin. Any municipality planning to adopt a municipal power agency's final integrated resource plan shall post the preliminary integrated resource plan publicly to its website or a link to it on the municipality's website.

(b) The municipal power agency or municipality shall facilitate public comment on the preliminary integrated resource plan, as follows:

(1) upon issuance of the preliminary integrated resource plan, the municipal power agency or municipality and any municipality planning to adopt a municipal power agency's final integrated resource plan shall post the preliminary integrated resource plan or a link to it publicly on its website. The plan shall remain publicly accessible for at least 60 days;

(2) the municipal power agency or municipality shall hold one or more public meetings, in person with remote access, where it shall make a representative available to address questions about the preliminary integrated resource plan. The meetings shall be held no sooner than 15 days, and no later than 45 days, after the preliminary integrated resource plan is made available to the public;

(3) the municipal power agency or municipality shall accept public comments on the preliminary integrated resource plan for 30 days following its public posting via website, email, or mail. The municipal power agency or municipality may extend this public comment period by an additional 30 days upon request by ratepayers of the municipal power agency or municipality or any entity that plans to adopt the municipal power agency's or municipality's final integrated resource plan; and

(4) The municipal power agency or municipality shall review public comments and provide responses that reasonably address all relevant issues or questions raised by such comments. The municipal power agency or municipality may modify its preliminary integrated resource plan in response to these comments. The municipal power agency or municipality shall prepare a document with responses to public comments and submit this response document to the Agency no later than 90 days after the close of the comment period. This response document shall be posted publicly on the municipality's or municipal power agency's websites, as relevant, and on the website of the Illinois Power Agency's website along with the preliminary integrated resource plan, as submitted, and any revisions made by the municipal power agency or municipality in response to public comments.

(c) The Illinois Power Agency shall maintain public access to all integrated resource plans submitted pursuant to this Act, accessible through the Illinois Power Agency's website, for no less than 10 years following each integrated resource plan's initial submission.

(Source: P.A. 104-458, eff. 6-1-26.)