Selected State Reports
State Documents
• Thirteen state agencies have contributed
sections of the proposed "Illinois Human Services
Plan," covering 160 services provided by these
agencies during fiscal years 1976-80. Fiscal 1978
expenditures will total over $561 million. Participating
agencies are the departments of Children
and Family Services, Public Aid, Corrections,
Vocational Rehabilitation, Aging, Public Health,
and Veterans Affairs; the commissions on
Dangerous Drugs, Human Relations, and Delinquency
Prevention; and the Bureau of Employment
Security, the Governor's Office of Manpower
power and Human Development, and the Crippled
Children Services Division, University of
Illinois.
• Four recent reports to the Technical Committee
of the Illinois Energy Resources Commission
detail prospects for the state in four energy
areas:
• 1977 Solid Waste and Biomass: Their Potential
as Energy Sources in Illinois, 51 pp.
• 1977 Electric Utilities: An Assessment of the
Industry in Illinois, 68 pp.
• 1977 Energy Conservation: Recommendations
for Illinois, 49 pp.
• 1977 Natural Gas and Petroleum: The Illinois
Situation, 170 pp.
• Illinois Directory of Environmental Information,
Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality,
document no. 77/ 16 (June 1977), 131 pp.
This directory includes lists of environmental
groups and recycling centers in Illinois, as well as
markets for recyclable materials and regional,
state and federal organizations and agencies.
• "Ground-water Contamination: Problems and
Remedial Actions," by David E. Lindorff and
Keros Cartwright, Illinois State Geological
Survey, Environmental Geology Notes no. 81
(May 1977), 58 pp.
This report gives results of a survey of groundwater
contamination incidents and maps out
strategies to deal with emergency problems in
Illinois.
• Economic Impact Studies: The First Year in
Review, Illinois Institute for Environmental
Quality (June 1977), 25 pp.
In October 1975 Illinois became the first state to
require that possible economic impacts of
proposed environmental regulations be considered.
This report assesses the program and
recommends a change in legislation to allow for no
economic evaluation in certain cases.
Items listed under State Documents have been
received by the Documents Unit, Illinois State
Library, Springfield, and are usually available
from public libraries in the state through
interlibrary loan./ S.L.K.
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