ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

May 5, 1983

In the matter of:

JOHN DEERE ThERMMJ

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DISCHARGE

(EAST MOLINE)

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PROPOSED RULE.

FIRST NOTICE

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by D. Anderson):

The Board hereby proposes to adopt 35 Ill, Adm.

Code

304.205,

the text of which appears below.

The Clerk is

directed to prepare a notice of proposed rulemaking for

publication in the Illinois Register.

The record will remain

open for public comment for a period of 45 days after publi-

cation in the Illinois Register.

Section 304.205

John Deere Foundry Discharges

a)

This Section applies to existing effluent discharges

from an existing nodular iron foundry owned by Deere

and Company which discharges to tributaries

of Sugar

Creek in Sections 29 and 30, T18N, R1E of the Fourth

Principal Meridian, Rock Island County.

b)

If paragraphs

(c)

and

(d)

are met, such discharges

shall not be subject to Section 304,105 as it applies

to the following water quality standards:

1)

35 Ill,

Adm. Code 302.211(c)

;

2)

35 Ill,

Acim, Code 302,211(d);

and,

3)

35 Ill,

Adm, Code 302,208 with respect to

total dissolved solids and iron

(total).

c)

No person shall cause or allow temperature

in any

effluent discharge subject to this Section to exceed

37 degrees C

(98 degrees

F)

at any time,

d)

No person shall cause or allow the concentration of

total dissolved

solids

(STORET 70300)

in any effluent

discharge subject to this Section to exceed 2200 mg/l,

subject to the averaging rule of Section 304.104.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

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I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify that the above Order was adopted

on the

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day of

__________,

1983 by a vote of

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Christan

L. Mo~fett~,(’~erk

Illinois

Pollution

c~thftro1 Board