Who Helped To Bring NatLUSTs Program In Illinois?
Key political leaders in Illinois are very aware that claimants and consultants have been suffering and acted to provide financial relief. Illinois EPA (‘IEPA’) Director Douglas P. Scott, and his staff crafted a statute change in the spring of 2007 to allow the agency the ability to create a claim assignment program. Without this legislation, NatLUST could not offer its program in Illinois. Rep. Thomas Holbrook and Senator James Clayborne, Jr., who chair the House & Senate Environment Committees, respectively, sponsored the legislation, which was supported by House Speaker Michael Madigan as well as State’s largest petroleum organization, the Illinois Petroleum Marketers Association/Illinois Association of Convenience Stores. The legislation passed the House and Senate unanimously, and was signed into law by Governor Rod Blagojevich in August 2007.
