ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

February 21, 2002

Proposed Rule. Dismissal Order.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by R.C. Flemal):

Section 17.5 of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/17.5 (1998)) requires the Board to adopt regulations that are “identical in substance,” as defined at Section 7.2 of the Act, to the National Primary Drinking Water regulations (NPDWRs) adopted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). These regulations implement sections 1412(b), 1414(c), 1417(a), and 1445(a) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 300g-1(b), 300g-3(c), 300g-6(a) & 300j-4(a) (1998). USEPA has codified its SDWA regulations at 40 C.F.R. 141 through 143. The Board reserved this docket for any SDWA amendments adopted by USEPA between July 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001.

During that time period, USEPA did amend its SDWA regulations once, on November 4, 2001 (at 66 Fed. Reg. 46221). However, no Board action is required based on that set of federal amendments. The November 4, 2001 amendments related to unregulated contaminant monitoring. USEPA has not required the State to adopt requirements for monitoring unregulated contaminants, since the federal rules are implemented directly by USEPA in this State.

For the foregoing reasons, 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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