ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
May 8, 2008
RECEIVED
CLERK'S OFFICE
MAY 0 8 2008
STATE
OF
ILLINOIS
Pollution
Control Board
IN THE MATTER OF:
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS AND
EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS FOR THE
CHICAGO AREA WATERWAY SYSTEM
AND LOWER DES PLANES RIVER
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO 35 ILL.
ADM. CODE 301, 302, 303, and 304
R08-9
(Rulemaking - Water)
NOTICE OF HEARINGS
DATES, TIMES, AND PLACE:
PUBLIC HEARING JUNE 16, 2008,
5:30 p.m.
Hearing Room
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
100 E. Erie
Chicago, IL
PURPOSE OF HEARINGS:?
To Hear Public Testimony on Rule Proposal
ATTENDING BOARD MEMBERS:?
G. Tanner Girard
HEARING OFFICER:
?
Marie E. Tipsord
HEARING OFFICER ORDER
On October 26, 2007, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency)
filed a proposal under the general rulemaking provisions of Sections 27 and 28 of the
Environmental Protection Act (415 ILCS 5/27, 28 (2006)). Generally, the proposal will
amend the Board's rules for Secondary Contact and Indigenous Aquatic Life Uses to
update the designated uses and criteria necessary to protect the existing uses. On
November 1, 2007, the Board accepted the proposal for hearing.
The Board has held 10 days of hearings in this proceeding and will hold several
more hearings in September. The purpose of this hearing will be to allow members of the
public to testify on the proposed rule.
Witnesses will
be sworn in and will be subject to cross-examination. Persons
wishing to testify will be asked to sign in before 5:30 p.m. on June 16 or to contact the
hearing officer by phone or email before that date. The hearing officer may need to limit
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the time available for each member to testify depending on the number of people who
wish to testify. The hearing will go no later than 8:00 p.m. and may be adjourned earlier
if all who have signed up to testify have testified.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
arie E. Tipsord
Hearing Officer
Illinois Pollution Control Board
100 West Randolph, Suite
11-500
Chicago, Illinois 60601
(312) 814-4925
tipsomi(u)ipcb.state.il.us