ILLINOIS

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2001

October

19,

2001

Dorothy M.

Gunn,

Clerk

Illinois

Pollution Control Board

100W.

Randolph, Suite

11-500

Chicago,

IL 60601

Re: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Comments for Docket R02-5 SDWA Update,

USEPA Amendments, January

1, 2001

through June

30,

2001

Dear Ms. Gunn:

This letter is a comment on a portion of Docket R02-5, which includes proposed language

for

adoption

of

the

January

26,

2001

Federal

Register

promulgation

of

the

arsenic

regulation through

the identical

in substance process.

The Agency has been

in contact

with USEPA Region

5.

The Region

is unwilling to review or comment upon the regulation

until

such

time

as

comments

from

the

October

5,

2001,

Notice

of

Data

Availability

publiöation in the

Federal Register

have

been received, reviewed and

a final determination

issued as to whether or not changes will

be made to the January 26,

2001, promulgated

rule.

TheAgency respectfully requests thatthe

Board withdraw its proposal to~adoptthe

federal

arsenic language until such time as final language has been determined by USEPA.

It is

impossible for either

Region

5 or the

Agency to

comment

with

any certainty upon

the

arsenic language portion of proposed

Docket R02-5 at this time.

The Agency continues to review the remainder ofthe

Docket, and will transmit comments

for the remaining

portion under separate cover.

Should you have any questions, please

contact me for clarification.

Sincerely,

Ms. Lou Allyn Byus

Assistant Manager

-

Field Operations

Division of Public Water Supplies

1021

NORTH

STATE OF ILLINOIS

Pollution Control

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RYAN, GOVERNOR

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Enclosure

cc:

Rita

Garner, USEPA

Region

5