STANDARDS

SUBPART A: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section

303.100

Scope and Applicability

303.101

Multiple Designations

303.102

Rulemaking Required

SUBPART B: NONSPECIFIC WATER USE DESIGNATIONS

Section

303.200

Scope and Applicability

303.201

General Use Waters

303.202

Public and Food Processing Water Supplies

303.203

Underground Waters

303.204

 

Secondary Contact and Indigenous Aquatic Life Waters

303.205

 

SUBPART C: SPECIFIC USE DESIGNATIONS AND SITE

SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

Section

303.300

Scope and Applicability

303.301

Organization

303.311

Ohio River Temperature

303.312

Waters Receiving Fluorspar Mine Drainage

303.321

Wabash River Temperature

303.322

Unnamed Tributary of the Vermilion River

303.323

Sugar Creek and Its Unnamed Tributary

303.331

Mississippi River North Temperature

303.341

Mississippi River North Central Temperature

303.351

Mississippi River South Central Temperature

303.352

Unnamed Tributary of Wood River Creek

303.353

Schoenberger Creek; Unnamed Tributary of Cahokia Canal

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303.361

Mississippi River South Temperature

303.400

Bankline Disposal Along the Illinois Waterway/River

303.430

Unnamed Tributary to Dutch Creek

303.431

Long Point Slough and Its Unnamed Tributary

303.441

Secondary Contact Waters

303.442

Waters Not Designated for Public Water Supply

303.443

Lake Michigan Basin

303.444

Salt Creek, Higgins Creek, West Branch of the DuPage River, Des Plaines River

SUBPART D: THERMAL DISCHARGES

Section

303.500

Scope and Applicability

303.502

Lake Sangchris Thermal Discharges

APPENDIX A References to Previous Rules

APPENDIX B Sources of Codified Sections

AUTHORITY: Implementing Section 13 and authorized by Sections 11(b) and 27 of the

Environmental Protection Act [415 ILCS 5/13, 11(b), and 27].

SOURCE: Filed with the Secretary of State January 1, 1978; amended at 2 Ill. Reg. 27, p. 221,

effective July 5, 1978; amended at 3 Ill. Reg. 20, p. 95, effective May 17, 1979; amended at 5 Ill.

Reg. 11592, effective October 19, 1981; codified at 6 Ill. Reg. 7818; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 11161

effective September 7, 1982; amended at 7 Ill. Reg. 8111, effective June 23, 1983; amended in

R87-27 at 12 Ill. Reg. 9917, effective May 27, 1988; amended in R87-2 at 13 Ill. Reg. 15649,

effective September 22, 1989; amended in R87-36 at 14 Ill. Reg. 9460, effective May 31, 1990;

amended in R86-14 at 14 Ill. Reg. 20724, effective December 18, 1990; amended in R89-14(C) at

16 Ill. Reg. 14684, effective September 10, 1992; amended in R92-17 at 18 Ill. Reg. 2981,

effective February 14, 1994; amended in R91-23 at 18 Ill. Reg. 13457, effective August 19, 1994;

amended in R93-13 at 19 Ill. Reg. 1310, effective January 30, 1995; amended in R95-14 at 20 Ill.

Reg. 3534, effective February 8, 1996; amended in R97-25 at 22 Ill. Reg. 1403, effective

December 24, 1997; amended in __________ at __________ Ill. Reg. __________, effective

__________.

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Section 303.205

Outstanding Resource Waters

An Outstanding Resource Water (ORW) is a water body or water body segment that is of

uniquely high biological or recreational quality and shall be designated by the Board pursuant to

35 Ill. Adm. Code 106, Subpart L.

a)

 

Outstanding Resource Waters (“ORW”) shall be listed in Section 303.206 of this

Part. In addition to all other applicable use designations and water quality

standards contained in this Subtitle, an ORW is subject to the antidegradation

provision of Section 302.105(b).

b)

 

Stream segments that have a 7Q10 low flow of zero will generally not be

considered a candidate for this designation.

c)

 

A petition to designate a water or water segment as an ORW must be submitted to

the Illinois Pollution Control Board pursuant to the procedural rules found in 35 Ill. Adm.

Code 106, Subpart L.