ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

March

31, 1971

In the Matter Of:

#R71—1

REVISIONS

OF

WABASH

RIVER STANDARDS)

Opinion of

the Board

(by Mr. Currie):

On December

28,

1970,

the Illinois Environmental Protection

Agency filed

a proposal for an amendment to the Wabash River Inter-

state Water Quality Standards,

SWB-9.

The proposal requested that

the North Fork of the Vermilion River be considered an interstate

stream and be included in the regulations,

The addition of that

stream would require the inclusion of two communities, Hoopeston

and Rossville which discharge

to it,

in the timetable for additional

treatment requirements contained in SWB—9,

In accordance with the statute,

the Board held

a public hearing

on March

5,

1970

in Danville on the proposed amendment.

At that

hearing Mr, Glenn Pratt of the Federal Environmental Protection

Agency introduced as evidence

two United States Geological Survey

maps which clearly show the interstate nature of

the North Fork

of

the Vermilion River,

It follows that the two above mentioned

communities,

Hoopeston and Rossville should be subject to the

regulations contained in

SWB~9,

Both communities,

prev,ious

to this

change had been considered subject to the Intrastate Water Quality

Standards in SWB-l4 and therefore already under

the July 1972

compliance deadline for adequate sewage treatment facilities.

The transfer from SWB-l4 to SWB-9 in no way changes their respective

deadlines for final compliance.

I Dissent:

I~

Regina

E~Ryan,

do certify that the

a~Th~d

above

opinion this

31st

day

of March,

1971.

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Regin~

E.

Ryan, Clerk of

the Board

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