ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
February 16,
1995
IN THE MATTER OF:
AMENDMENTS TO 35 ILL. ADM. CODE
)
R95—9
810.103
(SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
)
(Rulemaking
-
Land)
GENERAL PROVISION) CONCERNING
)
DISPOSAL OF
DEAD
ANIMALS
)
ORDER OF THE
BOARD
(by R.C.
Fleinal):
On February 2,
1995 the Illinois Farm Bureau, Illinois Beef
Association, Illinois Lamb and Wool Producers,
Inc.,
Illinois
Milk Producers Association, and the Illinois Pork Producers
Association (joint proponents)
filed a proposal to amend the
Board’s solid waste disposal regulations at 35 Ill. Adm.
Code
810.103.
The joint proponents seek clarification via their
proposal of the relationship between the Board’s solid waste
disposal regulations and the authorities that flow from the
Illinois Dead Animal Disposal Act
(225 ILCS 610/1 et
seq.).
Accompanying the proposal
is a motion to waive 35 Ill. Adm.
Code 102.121(h), which requires that the regulatory proposal be
accompanied by a petition signed by 200 persons.
The joint
proponents request that the Board accept a Certification of
Membership from each of the joint proponents in lieu thereof.
The Board hereby grants the motion to waive the 200-signature
requirement and accepts the certifications.
The Board finds that the petition meets the requirements of
35 Ill.
Adm. Code 102.160(a)1, and accordingly accepts the matter
for hearing.
The Board hereby directs the Board’s hearing
officer assigned to this matter to schedule hearings as required
pursuant to Title VII the Environmental Protection Act
(415 ILCS
5/26 et
seq.).
The Board notes that joint proponents have requested that at
least one hearing be held downstate and that the Board avoid
scheduling hearings from mid-April through June 30 and in
September—October for the convenience of the agricultural
The joint proponents are requested at hearing to attempt
to quantify information described at pp.
10-11 of the petition
concerning the number of persons affected and the economic impact
of the rule change to assist the Board in completing any Analysis
of Economic and Budgetary Effects which might be required by the
Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.
(See 35 Ill.
Adm. Code
102.121(e)
and 1
Ill.
Adm. Code 220.Exhibit B.)
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community.
The Board directs its hearing officer to honor these
requests, and to add to the service list the persons that the
joint proponents have specified in the request accompanying their
filing.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board, hereby certif
that the above order was adopted on the
/(ir~day of
_______________,
1995,
by a vote of
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Dorothy M. gunn, Clerk
Illinois P6llution Control Board