1. SUBPART B: GENERAL USE WATER QUALITY STANDARDS
        1. Section 302.208 Numeric Standards for Chemical Constituents
        2. Section 302.504 Chemical Constituents
        3. Section 302.575 Procedures for Deriving Tier I Water Quality Criteria and Values in the Lake Michigan Basin to Protect Wildlife

 ILLINOIS REGISTER  

 

POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

 

NOTICE OF PROPOSED AMENDMENTS

 

 

 


TITLE 35: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

SUBTITLE C: WATER POLLUTION

CHAPTER I: POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

 

PART 302

WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

 

SUBPART A: GENERAL WATER QUALITY PROVISIONS

 

Section

302.100

Definitions

302.101

Scope and Applicability

302.102

Allowed Mixing, Mixing Zones and ZIDS

302.103

Stream Flows

302.104

Main River Temperatures

302.105

Nondegradation

  
SUBPART B: GENERAL USE WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

Section

302.201

Scope and Applicability

302.202

Purpose

302.203

Offensive Conditions

302.204

pH

302.205

Phosphorus

302.206

Dissolved Oxygen

302.207

Radioactivity

302.208

Numeric Standards for Chemical Constituents

302.209

Fecal Coliform

302.210

Other Toxic Substances

302.211

Temperature

302.212

Ammonia Nitrogen and Un-ionized Ammonia

302.213

Effluent Modified Waters (Ammonia)

  
SUBPART C: PUBLIC AND FOOD PROCESSING WATER SUPPLY STANDARDS

Section

302.301

Scope and Applicability

302.302

Algicide Permits

302.303

Finished Water Standards

302.304

Chemical Constituents

302.305

Other Contaminants

302.306

Fecal Coliform

  
SUBPART D: SECONDARY CONTACT AND INDIGENOUS AQUATIC LIFE STANDARDS

Section

302.401

Scope and Applicability

302.402

Purpose

302.403

Unnatural Sludge

302.404

pH

302.405

Dissolved Oxygen

302.406

Fecal Coliform (Repealed)

302.407

Chemical Constituents

302.408

Temperature

302.409

Cyanide

302.410

Substances Toxic to Aquatic Life

  
SUBPART E: LAKE MICHIGAN BASIN WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

Section

302.501

Scope, Applicability, and Definitions

302.502

Dissolved Oxygen

302.503

pH

302.504

Chemical Constituents

302.505

Fecal Coliform

302.506

Temperature

302.507

Thermal Standards for Existing Sources on January 1, 1971

302.508

Thermal Standards for Sources Under Construction But Not in Operation on January 1, 1971

302.509

Other Sources

302.510

Incorporations by Reference

302.515

Offensive Conditions

302.520

Regulation and Designation of Bioaccumulative Chemicals of Concern (BCCs)

302.521

Supplemental Antidegradation Provisions for BCCs

302.525

Radioactivity

302.530

Supplemental Mixing Provisions for Bioaccumulative Chemicals of Concern (BCCs)

302.535

Ammonia Nitrogen

302.540

Other Toxic Substances

302.545

Data Requirements

302.550

Analytical Testing

302.553

Determining the Lake Michigan Aquatic Toxicity Criteria or Values - General Procedures

302.555

Determining the Tier I Lake Michigan Acute Aquatic Toxicity Criterion (LMAATC): Independent of Water Chemistry

302.560

Determining the Tier I Lake Michigan Basin Acute Aquatic Life Toxicity Criterion (LMAATC): Dependent on Water Chemistry

302.563

Determining the Tier II Lake Michigan Basin Acute Aquatic Life Toxicity Value (LMAATV)

302.565

Determining the Lake Michigan Basin Chronic Aquatic Life Toxicity Criterion (LMCATC) or the Lake Michigan Basin Chronic Aquatic Life Toxicity Value (LMCATV)

302.570

Procedures for Deriving Bioaccumulation Factors for the Lake Michigan Basin

302.575

Procedures for Deriving Tier I Water Quality Criteria in the Lake Michigan Basin to Protect Wildlife

302.580

Procedures for Deriving Water Quality Criteria and Values in the Lake Michigan Basin to Protect Human Health - General

302.585

Procedures for Determining the Lake Michigan Basin Human Health Threshold Criterion (LMHHTC) and the Lake Michigan Basin Human Health Threshold Value (LMHHTV)

302.590

Procedures for Determining the Lake Michigan Basin Human Health Nonthreshold Criterion (LMHHNC) or the Lake Michigan Basin Human Health Nonthreshold Value (LMHHNV)

302.595

Listing of Bioaccumulative Chemicals of Concern, Derived Criteria and Values

  
SUBPART F: PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING WATER QUALITY CRITERIA

Section

302.601

Scope and Applicability

302.603

Definitions

302.604

Mathematical Abbreviations

302.606

Data Requirements

302.612

Determining the Acute Aquatic Toxicity Criterion for an Individual Substance - General Procedures

302.615

Determining the Acute Aquatic Toxicity Criterion - Toxicity Independent of Water Chemistry

302.618

Determining the Acute Aquatic Toxicity Criterion - Toxicity Dependent on Water Chemistry

302.621

Determining the Acute Aquatic Toxicity Criterion - Procedures for Combinations of Substances

302.627

Determining the Chronic Aquatic Toxicity Criterion for an Individual Substance - General Procedures

302.630

Determining the Chronic Aquatic Toxicity Criterion - Procedure for Combination of Substances

302.633

The Wild and Domestic Animal Protection Criterion

302.642

The Human Threshold Criterion

302.645

Determining the Acceptable Daily Intake

302.648

Determining the Human Threshold Criterion

302.651

The Human Nonthreshold Criterion

302.654

Determining the Risk Associated Intake

302.657

Determining the Human Nonthreshold Criterion

302.658

Stream Flow for Application of Human Nonthreshold Criterion

302.660

Bioconcentration Factor

302.663

Determination of Bioconcentration Factor

302.666

Utilizing the Bioconcentration Factor

302.669

Listing of Derived Criteria

  

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. 44, p. 151, effective November 2, 1978; amended at 3 Ill. Reg. 20, p. 95, effective May 17, 1979; amended at 3 Ill. Reg. 25, p. 190, effective June 21, 1979; codified at 6 Ill. Reg. 7818; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 11161, effective September 7, 1982; amended at 6 Ill. Reg. 13750, effective October 26, 1982; amended at 8 Ill. Reg. 1629, effective January 18, 1984; peremptory amendments at 10 Ill. Reg. 461, effective December 23, 1985; amended at R87-27 at 12 Ill. Reg. 9911, effective May 27, 1988; amended at R85-29 at 12 Ill. Reg. 12082, effective July 11, 1988; amended in R88-1 at 13 Ill. Reg. 5998, effective April 18, 1989; amended in R88-21(A) at 14 Ill. Reg. 2899, effective February 13, 1990; amended in R88-21(B) at 14 Ill. Reg. 11974, effective July 9, 1990; amended in R94-1(A) at 20 Ill. Reg. 7682, effective May 24, 1996; amended in R94-1(B) at 20 Ill. Reg. 370, effective December 23, 1996; expedited correction at 20 Ill. Reg. 6273, effective December 23, 1996; amended in R97-25 at 21 Ill. Reg. 1356, effective December 24, 1997; amended in R99-8 at 23 Ill. Reg. 11249, effective August 26, 1999; amended in __________ at __________ Ill. Reg. _______________, effective ________________, 2002.

 

 


SUBPART B: GENERAL USE WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

 


Section 302.208  Numeric Standards for Chemical Constituents

 
 
a)
The acute standard (AS) for the chemical constituents listed in subsection (e) shall not be exceeded at any time except as provided in subsection (d).
b)
The chronic standard (CS) for the chemical constituents listed in subsection (e) shall not be exceeded by the arithmetic average of at least four consecutive samples collected over any period of at least four days, except as provided in subsection (d). The samples used to demonstrate compliance or lack of compliance with a CS must be collected in a manner which assures an average representative of the sampling period.
   
c)
The human health standard (HHS) for the chemical constituents listed in subsection (f) shall not be exceeded when the stream flow is at or above the harmonic mean flow pursuant to Section 302.658 nor shall an annual average, based on at least eight samples, collected in a manner representative of the sampling period, exceed the HHS except as provided in subsection (d).
d)
In waters where mixing is allowed pursuant to Section 302.102, the following apply:
 
1) The AS shall not be exceeded in any waters except for those waters for which the Agency has approved a ZID pursuant to Section 302.102.
2) The CS shall not be exceeded outside of waters in which mixing is allowed pursuant to Section 302.102.
 
3) The HHS shall not be exceeded outside of waters in which mixing is allowed pursuant to Section 302.102.
 
 
e) Numeric Water Quality Standards for the Protection of Aquatic Organisms
 

 

Constituent

Storet

Number

AS

(µg/L) ( ug/L )

CS

(µg/L) ( ug/L )

Arsenic

(trivalent, dissolved) ( total )

22680 01002 

 

360 X 1.0* = 360

190 X 1.0* = 190

 

Cadmium

(dissolved) ( total )

01025 01027 

 

exp[A+Bln(H)] X {1.138672-[(lnH)(0.041838)]}*, but not to exceed 50 ug/L , where A=-2.918 and B=1.128

exp[A+Bln(H)] X {1.101672-[(lnH)(0.041838)]}*, where A=-3.490 and B=0.7852

Chromium (hexavalent, total) ( total hexavalent )

01032

16

11

Chromium (trivalent, dissolved) ( total trivalent )

80357  01033  

 

exp[A+Bln(H)] X 0.316* 

where A=3.688, and

B=0.8190

 

exp[A+Bln(H)] X 0.860*

where A=1.561, and B=0.8190

Copper

(dissolved) ( total )

01040  01042  

 

exp[A+Bln(H)] X 0.960*

where A=-1.464, and

B=0.9422

exp[A+Bln(H)] X 0.960*

where A=-1.465, and

B=0.8545

Cyanide (weak acid dissociable)

00718

49 22 

 

9.9  5.2  

 

Lead

(dissolved) ( total )

01049  01051  

 

exp[A+Bln(H)] X {1.46203-[(lnH)(0.145712)]}*

where A=-1.301, and B=1.273

exp[A+Bln(H)] X {1.46203-[(lnH)(0.145712)]}*

where A=-2.863, and

B=1.273

Mercury (dissolved)

71890 71900 

 

2.6 X 0.85* = 2.2

1.3 X 0.85* = 1.1

Nickel (dissolved)

01065

exp[A+Bln(H)] X 0.998*

where A=0.5173, and

B=0.8460

exp[A+Bln(H)] X 0.997*

where A=-2.286, and

B=0.8460

TRC

500600

19

11

Zinc (dissolved)

01090

exp[A+Bln(H)] X 0.978*

where A=0.8875, and

B=0.8473

exp[A+Bln(H)] X 0.986*

where A=-0.8227, and

B=0.8473

Benzene

78124

4200

860

Ethylbenzene

78113

150

14

Toluene

78131

2000

600

Xylene(s)

81551

920

360

 
 
where: µg/L  ug/L = microgram per liter,
exp[x] = base natural  neutral logarithms raised to the x- power, and
 
 
ln(H) = natural logarithm of Hardness (STORET 00900).
 
* = conversion factor multiplier for dissolved metals
 
f)
Numeric Water Quality Standard for the Protection of Human Health
 

 

Constituent

STORET

Number

 

(µg/L) ( ug/L )

 

Mercury

 

71900

 

0.012

Benzene

78124

310

 
Where µg/L  ug/L = micrograms per liter
 
g)
Concentrations of the following chemical constituents shall not be exceeded except in waters for which mixing is allowed pursuant to Section 302.102.
 

 

Constituent

 

 

Unit

STORET

Number

 

Standard

Barium (total)

mg/L

01007

5.0

Boron (total)

mg/L

01022

1.0

Chloride (total)

mg/L

00940

500.

Fluoride

mg/L

00951

1.4

Iron (dissolved)

mg/L

01046

1.0

Manganese (total)

mg/L

01055

1.0

Nickel (total)

mg/L

01067

    1.0

 

Phenols

mg/L

32730

0.1

Selenium (total)

mg/L

01147

1.0

Silver (total)

µg/L  ug/L 

 

01077

5.0

Sulfate

mg/L

00945

500.

Total Dissolved

Solids

mg/L

70300

1000.

Zinc (total)

mg/L

01092

    1.0  

 
where: mg/L = milligram per liter and
µg/L  ug/L = microgram per liter
 
(Source: Amended at 20 Ill. Reg.7682, effective May 24, 1996; amended in __________ at __________ Ill. Reg. _______________, effective ________________, 2002)

 

 

SUBPART E: LAKE MICHIGAN BASIN WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

 


Section 302.504  Chemical Constituents

 

The following concentrations of chemical constituents must not be exceeded, except as provided in Sections 302.102 and 302.530:

  
a) The following standards must be met in all waters of the Lake Michigan Basin. Acute aquatic life standards (AS) must not be exceeded at any time except for those waters for which the Agency has approved a zone of initial dilution (ZID) pursuant to Sections 302.102 and 302.530. Chronic aquatic life standards (CS) and human health standards (HHS) must not be exceeded outside of waters in which mixing is allowed pursuant to Section 302.102 and 302.530 by the arithmetic average of at least four consecutive samples collected over a period of at least four days. The samples used to demonstrate compliance with the CS or HHS must be collected in a manner which assures an average representation of the sampling period.

Constituent

STORET Number

Unit

AS

CS

HHS

Arsenic

(Trivalent, dissolved)

 

22680

m g/L

340 X 1.0* = 340

148 X 1.0* = 148

NA

Cadmium (dissolved)

01025

m g/L

exp[A +Bln(H)] X {1.38672-[(lnH)(0.041838)]}*

A=-3.6867, and

B=1.128

 

exp[A +Bln(H)] X {1.101672-[(lnH)(0.041838)]}*

A = -2.715, and

B = 0.7852

 

 

NA

Chromium

(Hexavalent, total)

 

01032

m g/L

16

11

NA

Chromium

(Trivalent, dissolved)

80357

m g/L

exp[A +Bln(H)] X 0.316* where

A = 3.7256, and

B =0.819

 

 

exp[A +Bln(H)] X 0.860* where

A = 0.6848, and

B = 0.819

NA

Copper

(dissolved)

01040

m g/L

exp[A +Bln(H)] X 0.960* where

A = -1.700, and

B = 0.9422

exp[A +Bln(H)] X 0.960* where

A = -1.702, and

B = 0.8545

 

NA

Cyanide

(Weak acid dissociable)

 

00718

m g/L

22

5.2

NA

Lead

(dissolved)

01049

m g/L

exp[A +Bln(H)] X {1.46203-[(lnH)(0.145712)]}* where

A = -1.055, and

B = 1.273

exp[A +Bln(H)] X {1.46203-[(lnH)(0.145712)]}* where

A = -4.003, and

B = 1.273

 

NA

Nickel

(dissolved)

01065

m g/L

exp[A +Bln(H)] X 0.998* where

A = 2.255, and

B = 0.846

 

exp[A +Bln(H)] X 0.997* where

A = 0.0584, and

B = 0.846

NA

Selenium

(dissolved)

01145

m g/L

NA

 

5.0

NA

TRC

 

50060

m g/L

19

11

NA

Zinc

(dissolved)

01090

m g/L

exp[A +Bln(H)] X 0.978* where

A = 0.884, and

B = 0.8473

exp[A +Bln(H)] X 0.986* where

A = 0.884, and

B = 0.8473

 

NA

Benzene

 

 

78124 34030 

 

m g/L

3900 NA 

 

800 NA 

 

310

Chlorobenzene

34301

mg/L

NA

NA

3.2

 

2,4-Dimethylphenol

 

34606

mg/L

NA

NA

8.7

2,4-Dinitrophenol

 

03756

mg/L

NA

NA

2.8

Endrin

 

 

39390

m g/L

0.086

0.036

NA

Ethylbenzene

78113

µg/L

150

14

NA

Hexachloroethane

 

34396

m g/L

NA

NA

6.7

Methylene chloride

 

34423

mg/L

NA

NA

2.6

Parathion

 

39540

m g/L

0.065

0.013

NA

Pentachlorophenol

 

03761

m g/L

exp B ([pH] +A) where

A = -4.869, and

B = 1.005

 

exp B ([pH] +A) where

A = -5.134, and

B = 1.005

NA

Toluene

 

78131

mg/L

2000 NA 

 

610 NA 

 

51.0

Tricholroethylene

 

39180

m g/L

NA

NA

370

Xylene(s)

81551

m g/L

1200

490

NA

 

Where:

NA = Not Applied

 

Exp[x] = base of natural logarithms

raised to the x-power

 

ln(H) = natural logarithm of Hardness

(STORET 00900)

 

* = conversion factor multiplier for dissolved metals

 

(Source: Amended at 21 Ill. Reg. 1356, effective December 24, 1997, amended in __________ at __________ Ill. Reg. _______________, effective ________________, 2002)

 

 


Section 302.575 Procedures for Deriving Tier I Water Quality Criteria and Values in the Lake Michigan Basin to Protect Wildlife

 

The Lake Michigan Basin Wildlife Criterion (LMWC) is the concentration of a substance which if not exceeded protects Illinois wild mammal and bird populations from adverse effects resulting from ingestion of surface waters of the Lake Michigan Basin and from ingestion of aquatic prey organisms taken from surface waters of the Lake Michigan Basin. Wildlife criteria calculated under this Section protect against long-term effects and are therefore considered chronic criteria. The methodology involves utilization of data from test animals to derive criteria to protect representative or target species: bald eagle, herring gull, belted kingfisher, mink and river otter. The lower of the geometric mean of species specific criteria for bird species or mammal species is chosen as the LMWC to protect a broad range of species.

 

 
d) Calculation of TSV. The TSV, measured in milligrams per liter (mg/L), is calculated according to the equation:

TSV = { [TD x Wt] / [UFa x UFs x UFl] } / { W + S [FTLi x BAFWLTLi] }

 

Where:

 

TSV = target species value in milligrams of substance per liter (mg/L).

TD = test dose that is toxic to the test species, either NOAEL or LOAEL.

UFa = the uncertainty factor for extrapolating toxicity data across species (unitless). A species-specific UFa shall be selected and applied to each target species, consistent with the equation

UFs = the uncertainty factor for extrapolating from subchronic to chronic exposures (unitless)

UFl = the uncertainty factor for extrapolation from LOAEL to NOAEL (unitless)

Wt = average weight in kilograms (kg) of the target species

W = average daily volume of water in liters consumed per day (L/d) by the target species

FTLi = average daily amount of food consumed by the target species in kilograms (kg/d) for trophic level i

BAFWLTLi = aquatic life bioaccumulation factor with units of liter per kilogram (L/kg), as derived in Section 302.570 for trophic level

 
e) Calculation of the Lake Michigan Basin Wildlife Criterion. TSVs are obtained for each target species. The geometric mean TSVs of all mammal species is calculated and also of all bird species. The LMWC is the lower of the bird or mammal geometric mean TSV.
 
 
(Source: Added at 21 Ill. Reg. 1356, effective December 24, 1997, amended in __________ at __________ Ill. Reg. _______________, effective ________________, 2002)

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