Electric Vehicle (EV) Permitting Support

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency must convene an EV Permitting Task Force (Task Force) to examine the following:

• Existing or potential challenges related to EV permitting;
• State EV permitting fees and revenue generated from those fees;
• Permitting needs of EV, EV charging station, and EV component parts manufacturers;
• Recommendations to expedite permitting related to EVs;
• Recommendations for the fee structure of permits related to EVs;
• Impacts that state and local permitting processes have on the EV charging station deployments; and,
• Legislative and regulatory actions that can support the EV industry and charging station deployment.

The Task Force must publish a report of their findings by August 1, 2022.

(Reference Reference Public Act 102-0996)