ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    May 26,
    1971
    In the matter of
    Amendment to Municipal
    Waste Facilities
    )
    # R 71—l3
    Timetable
    (SWB-lO)
    Opinion and Order of the Board
    (by Mr.
    Currie)
    The revision of SWB—lO consisting of the addition of the Village of
    Shawneetown
    to the waste facilities timetable
    was
    proposed at the request
    of
    the Federal Environmental Protection Agency.
    Rules
    and Regulations
    SWB~IOcontrols discharges only to the Ohio River mainstream.
    Subsequent
    to the scheduling of
    a hearing on this matter the Board
    received
    a communication from Mr.
    Robert Gates
    of the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency which conclusively demonstrated that
    both Shawneetown’s
    sewage treatment plant and sewage lagoon discharge to
    an unnamed creek which is an infrastate tributary
    to the Ohio River at
    a
    point about
    3 1/2 miles away from the Ohio River
    itself,
    For
    this reason
    the Shawneetown waste discharges are subject
    to Rules and Regulations
    SWB-14 which cover intrastate waters and not SWB-~lO
    Accordingly proposal
    R 7l~l3is dismissed and
    the hearing canceled.
    I, Regina E.
    Ryan, Clerk of the Board, hereby certify that the above
    Opinion and Order was entered on the ~~~day
    of May
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