ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June 20, 1996
    IN THE MATTER OF:
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    R96-18
    AMENDMENTS TO 35 ILL. ADM. CODE )
    (Rulemaking-Public Water Supplies)
    SUBTITLE F
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    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by R.C. Flemal):
    This matter is before the Board on letters filed by the Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency (Agency) on April 4 and June 17, 1996. The Agency requested that the Board open
    this docket for considering certain requested amendments that it filed on March 4, 1996 in the
    Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) identical-in-substance update docket, R95-17. The Board
    considered those requested amendments in R95-17 and responded to many of them with
    proposed amendments in the proposed opinion and order of April 18, 1996 in that proceeding.
    The Board responded to others by concluding that the requested amendments were
    inappropriate in the context of an identical-in-substance proceeding. The Board directs
    attention to the discussion and table in our proposed opinion and order of April 18, 1996 in
    R95-17 for a complete listing of the Agency-recommended revisions and Board responses. In
    submitting its comments (PC 2) to the Board's responses in R95-17, the Agency stated as
    follows:
    The Agency appreciates the efforts of the Board in incorporating the
    majority of the modifications proposed by the Agency's [March 4, 1996] letter.
    In response to the Board's inquiry on page 11 of the [April 11, 1996 proposed]
    opinion [and order in R95-17], the Agency requests that the Board consider the
    letter as a petition to amend the regulations pursuant to Section 27 of the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Act ("Act"; 415 ILCS 5/27 (1994)), and assign a
    separate docket number to the remaining modifications proposed in the [March
    4, 1996] letter.
    The Agency will file a motion to amend the letter petition that will
    include a justification for the proposed amendments and will supplement the
    proposed amendments with additional proposals appropriate for a Section 27 of
    the Act rulemaking. . . .
    In response to the Agency's request, the Board hereby opens this docket and places into
    it copies of the Agency's March 4, 1994 letter and June 17, 1996 public comment (PC 2) filed
    in docket R95-17. We note that the petition is incomplete as filed, and the Board will take no
    further action in this matter until the Agency has made the necessary filings to make a
    complete petition for rulemaking pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 101 and 102. This would
    require, among other things, the filing of an amended petition that includes the Agency's
    statement of reasons and the text of the proposed amendments, with all proposed additions
    underlined and deletions struck out.
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    If the Board does not receive an amended petition prior to September 1, 1996, this
    matter may be subject to dismissal.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby certify that
    the above order was adopted on the day of , 1996, by a vote of .
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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