35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE            CH. II, SEC. 170 
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TITLE 35:  ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
SUBTITLE A:  GENERAL PROVISIONS 
CHAPTER II:  ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
 
PART 170 
PROCEDURES FOR COORDINATED PERMIT REVIEW 
 
Section  
170.101 Introduction  
170.102 Definition  
170.103 Purpose  
170.104 Applicability  
170.110 Procedures  
170.111      Step 1 – Discussion of Overall Project (Optional)  
170.112      Step 2 – Discussion Specific to Each Division (Optional)  
170.113      Step 3 – Submission of Project Plan  
170.114      Step 4 – Submission of Total Project Application  
170.115      Step 5 – Permit Issuance  
170.116      Supplemental Permits  
170.120      Public Participation  
APPENDIX A         Rule into Section Table  
 
AUTHORITY:  Implementing and authorized by Section 39 of the Environmental Protection Act 
(Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 111½, par. 1039).  
 
SOURCE:  Adopted at 3 Ill. Reg. 47, p. 79, effective November 14, 1979; codified at 8 Ill. Reg. 
868.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.101 
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Section 170.101  Introduction
  
 
a)     Pursuant to Section 39 of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 
1981, ch. 111½, par. 1039), the Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) 
 issues permits and is authorized to adopt procedures as are necessary to carry out 
its permit duties.  
b)     The Pollution Control Board (Board) requires permits for the 
construction/development of facilities which may cause or are designed to control 
pollution of the air, land or waters of the State and of public water supplies.  
c)     The separate permit programs, which are administered by the Agency's Divisions 
of Air Pollution Control, Water Pollution Control, Land/Noise Pollution Control 
and Public Water Supplies, address different but sometime overlapping concerns.  
In regard to any one project,  the applicant may be subject to varying permit 
procedures, conflicting permit conditions, requests for duplicate information, and 
several permit reviews which may cause misunderstandings as to which Division 
is regulating various aspects of the project.  To avoid such problems, as far as 
possible, the Agency has established a Coordinated Permit Review and 
promulgates these procedures for implementing the Coordinated Permit Review 
process.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.102 
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Section 170.102  Definition
  
 
The Coordinated Permit Review is the procedure the Agency shall use to conduct a concurrent, 
multimedia review of projects which require Agency permits.  As used herein, multimedia refers 
to the air, waters (including public water supplies) and land of the State as they are subject to the 
 jurisdiction of the corresponding pollution control Divisions of the Agency.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.103 
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Section 170.103  Purpose
  
 
The Coordinated Permit Review process is intended to simplify and reduce the burden of permit 
requirements imposed on the applicant; to enable the Agency to perform a comprehensive review 
in order to minimize the adverse impact on the environment as a result of the activities for which 
authorization is being sought; to expedite the steps of the permit process and, consequently, to 
conserve human and economic resources.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.104 
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Section 170.104  Applicability
  
 
a)     Coordinated Permit Review shall be used in evaluating applications for permits to 
construct or develop projects that are significant with respect to two or more 
Agency Divisions.  This procedure shall not apply to operating permits.  
b)     For the purposes of this procedure only, a significant project for the various 
Agency  Divisions and media will be as defined below.  
1)     For purposes of the Division of Air Pollution Control, a  significant 
project is:  a new facility; a modification, replacement or reconstruction of 
an existing facility; or the addition of controls to an existing facility for 
 which the uncontrolled emissions:  
A)     Will  be 100 or more tons per year for any contaminant, or  
B)     Will include any hazardous or toxic pollutants.  
2)     For purposes of the Division of Water Pollution Control, a significant 
project is:  a new wastewater facility; a modification or expansion of an 
existing facility; or the addition of treatment to an existing facility for 
which:  
A)     The design population equivalent is 10,000 PE or greater, or  
B)     The wastewater contains any hazardous or toxic pollutants and the 
industry is classified as a primary industry under the provisions of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (P.L. 92-500), as 
amended.  
3)     For purposes or the Division of Land Pollution Control, a significant 
project is any new or existing waste management site or facility that deals 
with storage, transfer, processing, recovery, incineration and disposal of 
any waste.  
4)     For purposes of the Division of Public Water Supplies, a significant 
project is one which comes under the jurisdiction of the Division of Public  
Water Supplies and may be  
A)     A new public water supply (community supply or non-community 
supply); or  
B)     A modification, replacement or expansion of an existing public 
water supply (community supply or non-community supply).  
c)     Projects involving only an application for permit to open, operate or close a coal 
mine are exempt from this procedure.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.110 
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Section 170.110  Procedures
  
 
The procedures for implementing the Agency's Coordinated Permit Review include five steps of 
which only Steps 1 and 2 are optional.  These steps are detailed in the following Sections 
170.111 through 170.116.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.111 
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Section 170.111  Step 1 – Discussion of Overall Project (Optional)
  
 
a)     Upon initial contact regarding a project to which these procedures may be 
applicable, the Division will immediately convene a Coordinated Permit Review 
Group.  This Group will consist of representatives of each Division.  
b)     The coordinated Permit Review Group will meet with the applicant and discuss 
all phases of the conceptual plans, project design and development and will 
review Divisional requirements.  The Group and applicant will discuss inter-
Divisional coordination as applicable to the project.  At this time, details of the 
Coordinated Permit Review requirements and procedures will be explained to the 
applicant.  
c)     The intended outcome of the meeting in (b) above will be a consensus regarding 
general project feasibility with respect to environmental concerns and the 
establishment of a Lead Division.  Each Division affected will identify a 
Divisional Coordinator for the project and the Lead Division Coordinator shall be 
the Project Coordinator for the duration of the review process.  The Project 
 Coordinator will be the contact person between the Agency and the applicant.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.112 
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Section 170.112  Step 2 – Discussion Specific to Each Division (Optional)
  
 
a)     After initial contact with the Agency, the applicant may engage in detailed 
discussions with each affected Division.  The applicant will contact the Project 
Coordinator who will arrange meetings between the applicant and one or more 
Divisional Coordinators.  
b)     The applicant will be provided with information necessary to obtain Agency 
permits, including relevant application forms, that will enable him to proceed with 
preliminary project design.  Specific Divisional requirements will be discussed at 
this time.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.113 
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Section 170.113  Step 3 – Submission of Project Plan
  
 
a)     Each applicant shall submit an overall project plan for each medium. The project 
plan is a preliminary engineering document which defines the scope of the total 
project and generally assembles basic information including, for example, the 
following:  preliminary project layout; assumptions and design criteria; a 
discussion of how environmental regulations and requirements will be met, 
including coordination of multimedia interrelationships; and the project 
 milestones.  This plan, which provides the continuing technical basis for the 
detailed design and preparation of final engineering plans and specifications, shall 
contain, as a minimum, a discussion of:  
1)     The interrelationships among the various aspects of environmental control;  
2)     Selected controls;  
3) Preliminary design considerations 
 for each medium, and for each phase if 
construction or development will be phased; and  
4)     The timetable for project implementation for each medium.  
b)     The project plan shall be submitted to the Agency at any time but no later than at 
the time of submission of the project permit application.  
c)     During the review of the project plan, the agency will resolve conflicts arising out 
of specific Divisional requirements.  
d)     The Agency will provide a written response to the applicant within 45 days of 
receipt of the project plan except that when a project plan is submitted with the 
permit application, it shall be considered as part of the application.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.114 
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Section 170.114  Step 4 – Submission of Total Project Application
  
 
The permit application shall incorporate each medium and phase of the overall project.  If a 
series of applications is contemplated because of the phased nature of a project, where final 
design commitments may not be feasible for the latter phases at the same time that a permit 
 application must be made for the initial phases, the applications may be staggered, provided that 
the project plan has adequately addressed the preliminary design considerations for each medium 
and phase.  
a)     Upon receipt of the project permit application, the Project Coordinator will 
transmit appropriate sections of the application to specific Divisions.  
b)     If one Division's application is incomplete then the total project application shall 
be deemed incomplete.  However, the technical review of the application will 
continue for complete sections of the application.  
c)     After review by each Division, denials in the form of notices of incompleteness, if 
appropriate, shall be prepared and transmitted to the applicant within 30 days.  
d)     All resubmissions of applications will be handled in the same manner as the initial 
submissions.  
e)     During the Agency review period all applicant-Agency interaction will be through 
the Project Coordinator.  
f)      After completion of review of the total project application, if one Division denies 
its section of the application, then the total application will be denied.  
g)     When an application is denied, a meeting may be scheduled between the applicant 
and the Agency to discuss the denial.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.115 
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Section 170.115  Step 5 – Permit Issuance
  
 
When all the Divisions have approved their sections of the total project application, the total 
 project shall be permitted.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.116 
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Section 170.116  Supplemental Permits
  
 
Requests for supplemental permits to modify or revise a permit previously issued under this 
procedure shall be handled in the same manner as the initial permit application.  However, the 
procedure may be initiated at any step up to Step 4, depending on the complexity of the 
modification or revision.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE         CH. II, SEC.170.120 
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Section 170.120  Public Participation
  
 
a)     Public participation in projects to which these procedures are applicable shall 
conform to Federal and State laws and regulations and to existing Agency 
procedures.  
b)     Opportunities for public participation shall include, but not be limited to, the 
following:  
1)     The Agency shall give notice of the receipt of a request for a permit for a 
refuse disposal facility to those persons identified in Section 39 of the Act.  
2)     The Agency shall give joint notice of intent to give preliminary approval 
to permit applications which are reviewed under Section 170.114 (Step 4) 
of these procedures.  
3)     A public hearing shall be held when Federal or State laws and regulations 
or existing Agency procedures require a hearing.  
4)     All aspects of the project for which permits are required are proper subject 
matter for hearings under these procedures.  
5)     The Agency shall consider all comments in the hearing record when 
deciding to issue a permit or to deny the permit applications, and when 
placing conditions upon permits which are issued.  The Agency shall 
prepare a general summary of comments and testimony in the hearing 
record and shall respond  to the questions and comments, either 
individually or by category. This summary shall be available to the public 
on request.  
c)     For public participation purposes, if confidential information is submitted as part 
of the permit application, the applicant shall submit a second, nonconfidential 
application which shall state where information has been omitted as confidential.  
                   35 ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE       CH. II, SEC.170.App.a 
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Section 170.APPENDIX A   Rule into Section Table
  
 
Rule Section 
I 170.101 
II 170.102 
 170.103 
 170.104 
III 170.110 
 170.111 
 170.112 
 170.113 
 170.114 
 170.115 
 170.116 
IV 170.120 
Added in Codification     Appendix A