iLLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
February
15,
1996
IN THE MATTER
OF:
)
)
R96-11
USTUPDATE, USEPA REGULATIONS
)
(Identical-in-Substance)
(July
1 through December 31,
)
(Land Rules)
1995)
)
Proposed
rule.
Dismissal order.
ORDER OF THE BOARD (by M. McFawn):
Section 22.4(d) ofthe Environmental Protection Act (Act) requires theBoard to adopt
regulations which are “identical in substance” to underground storage tank (UST) regulations
promulgated by USEPA pursuant to Section 9003 ofRCRA to implement Subtitle I ofRCRA,
with certain limitations.
USEPA has codified its UST regulations at 40 CFR
281
through
283.
The Board reserved this docket for any UST amendments adopted by USEPA between July
1
and
December 31,
1995.
Duringthat time period, USEPA amended its UST regulations once,
on September
7,
1995,
at 61 Fed Reg. 46711.
Those amendments related to lender liability provisions ofthe
financial responsibility requirements,
which is
subject
matter expressly
outside the scope ofthe
Board’s statutory mandate.
Therefore, theBoard hereby dismisses this docket.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk ofthe Illinois Pollutio
Control Board, do hereby certifSi that
thybgve order was adopted on the
/f?Zi
dayof
,
1996, by
a vote of
~
~).
Dorothy M.
Clerk
Illinois Polluti~fi
Control Board