ILLINOIS

POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

February 21,

1980

IN THE MATTER OF:

PROPOSED

A~NDMENTS TO

CHAPTER

4:

)

R80- 3

MINE

RELATED

POLLUTION.

ORDER

OF

T~E

BOARD

(by

Dr.

Satchell):

On February

6,

1980 the Board received two letters from

Mr.

and Mrs. William A. Brown,

Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Noyes, Mr.

and

Mrs.

Tom

Grampp

and

Mr.

and

Mrs.

A.

J.

Van Hook, all of

Rural Route

7, Bloomington, Illinois.

One letter requested

notification of

any

hearings Dertaining to amendment of Chapter

4:

Mine Related Pollution.

This

is construed a~a request to

comment

on

the

Proposed

Order

of

the

Board

in R76-20 and R77-l0

dated December 13,

1979,

The

second

letter

suggests

four

areas

in which Chapter

4 could be amended.

These are not at issue in

P36—20 and R77-l0.

The Board construes the second letter as

a

regulatory proposal.

Since

it is

accompanied by a petition

with more than two hundred signatures

a docket number has been

assigned

Procedural

Rule 204(a).

However,

the proposal does

not contain the language of the amendments or statements

of

reasons,

facts, purpose and effect as required by Section

28

of the Environmental Protection Act and Procedural Rule 203.

Therefore the Board

will

not authorize a hearina

at

this

time,

The proposal

will

be subject to dismissal

if

these deficiencies

are not remedied within forty—five days of the date of this

Order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk

of

the

Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify the above Order was adopted on

the

_________

day ~

1980 by a vote of~

Christan L. Mo

,

Clerk

Illinois

Pollution

Control

Board

37—435