ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November 15, 2001

 

IN THE MATTER OF: )

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WASTEWATER PRETREATMENT ) R02-3

UPDATE, USEPA AMENDMENTS ) (Identical-in-Substance

(January 1, 2001 through June 30, 2001) )

Rulemaking - Public Water Supply)

 

Proposed Rule. Proposal for Public Comment.

 

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by N.J. Melas):

 

The Board received a motion for expedited consideration from the Illinois Environmental

Protection Agency (Agency) and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater

Chicago (MWRDGC) on October 31, 2001. By that motion, the Agency and the MWRDGC

requested that the Board expedite consideration of certain amendments adopted by United States

Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) on October 3, 2001. Those federal amendments are

intended to implement the federal Project eXellence and Leadership (Project XL). The joint

motion requested that the Board incorporate the October 3, 2001 federal amendments into the

wastewater pretreatment amendments proposed by the Board in Wastewater Pretreatment

Update, USEPA Amendments (January 1, 2001 through June 30, 2001), R02-3 (October 4,

2001).

 

The Board has considered the joint motion for expedited consideration, and we will grant

the motion by considering the federal amendments of October 3, 2001, under a separate

wastewater pretreatment update docket, R02-9, opened in a separate order today.

 

We will not consider the federal amendments in this docket, R02-3. The Notice of

Proposed Amendments for the R02-3 proceeding has already appeared in the

Illinois Register

, on

October 26, 2001 (at 25 Ill. Reg. 13373). The R02-3 proceeding further involves a very narrow

subject matter that is distinct from the federal amendments of October 3, 2001: a single set of

federal technical corrections to the test procedures for determination of mercury in water and

wastewater, adopted by USEPA on June 18, 2001 (at 66 Fed. Reg. 32774). It will require only

an update of the version of 40 C.F.R. 136 incorporated by reference in 35 Ill. Adm. Code

310.107. Opening a separate docket to handle the Project XL rules is the more appropriate

action under these circumstances.

 

For the foregoing reasons, the Board hereby grants expedited consideration of the federal

amendments of October 3, 2001, by opening a new docket, R02-9, to consider that federal action.

However, the Board declines to introduce the subject matter of the October 3, 2001 federal

amendments into this docket, R02-3.

 

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I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, do certify that the

Board adopted the above order on November 15, 2001, by a vote of 7-0.

 

 

Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board