Illinois Administrative Code
Title 23 - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL RESOURCES
Part 2800 - GREEN CLEANING FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Section 2800.50 - Exemption from Required Practices
Universal Citation: 23 IL Admin Code ยง 2800.50
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) Existing Supplies
A school may deplete its existing cleaning and maintenance supply stocks (existing on May 9, 2008). [105 ILCS 140/10 ]
b) Economic Feasibility
1) The Council has found sufficient
competition for the categories of environmentally sensitive cleaning supplies
set forth in Section
2800.30(a)
to ensure reasonable costs. However, some schools may find that certain green
cleaning supplies are not available in their geographic area or are
cost-prohibitive.
2) The Act allows
individual schools to forego establishing a green cleaning policy, including
but not limited to the purchase and use of environmentally sensitive cleaning
supplies, if to do so would not be "economically feasible" for specified
product categories. Any school in such a circumstance may provide a written
notification to the Council that implementation of a green cleaning policy for
a product category is not economically feasible. A school seeking exemption
must use the form provided in Appendix B and the Council's website.
3) After notification, the school may
continue using its non-green cleaning policy for the specified product
category. The exemption must be renewed annually until such time as green
cleaning becomes economically feasible for the product category. An exemption
must be sought for each school, although multiple schools in a district may
apply together.
4) To claim a
product category exemption due to economic infeasibility, the school must
provide:
A) The price of the current cleaning
supply;
B) If applicable, the
dilution factor for the current cleaning supply in use;
C) The prices of three comparable green
cleaning supplies; and
D) If
applicable, the dilution factors of those three comparable green cleaning
supplies.
5) If the
costs of the three comparable green cleaning supplies, accounting for dilution
factors, are higher than the cost of the current product in use, the Council
will find economic infeasibility for that supply category. The finding of
economic infeasibility is specific to the supply category and the applicant
school.
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