ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

July 27, 2000

IN THE MATTER OF: )

)

UST UPDATE, USEPA REGULATIONS ) R01-4

(January 1, 2000, through June 30, 2000) ) (Identical-in-Substance

) Rulemaking - Land)

Proposed Rule. Dismissal Order.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by M. McFawn):

Section 22.4(d) of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/22.4(d) (1998))

requires the Board to adopt regulations which are “identical in substance,” as defined at Section

7.2 of the Act (415 ILCS 5/7.2 (1998)), 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 (RCRA), 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 January 1, 2000, and June 30, 2000.

During that time period, USEPA did not amend its UST regulations. 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, do hereby certify that

the above order was adopted on the 27th day of July 2000 by a vote of 6-0.

Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board