Proposed Rule. Dismissal Order.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by T.E. Johnson):

Section 22.4(d) of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/22.4(d) (2000)) requires the Board to adopt regulations that are “identical in substance,” as defined at Section 7.2 of the Act (415 ILCS 5/7.2 (2000)), to underground storage tank (UST) regulations promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) pursuant to Section 9003 of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) as amended (42 U.S.C. §§ 6993 (1998)) to implement Subtitle I of RCRA (42 U.S.C. §§ 6991 et seq. (1998)) with certain limitations. USEPA has codified its UST regulations at 40 C.F.R. 281 through 283. The Board reserved this docket for any UST amendments adopted by USEPA between July 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001.

During that time period, the only USEPA amendments to the federal UST regulations was an action on November 30, 2001 (at 66 Fed. Reg. 59713) relating only to the federal authorization of the Minnesota program. Therefore, no action is necessary, and the Board hereby dismisses this docket.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the Board adopted the above order on February 21, 2002, by a vote of 7-0.

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