ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
November
29,
1990
IN THE MATTER OF:
THE PETITION OF BORDEN CHEMICALS
AND PLASTICS OPERATING LIMITED
)
R86-14
PARTNERSHIP
(FORMERLY BORDEN
)
(Rulemaking)
CHEMICAL COMPANY) FOR A SITE-
SPECIFIC RULE CHANGE REGARDING
)
WASTEWATER DISCHARGES INTO AN
)
UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF LONG
)
POINT SLOUGH
)
ADOPTED RULE
FINAL ORDER
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by B.
Forcade):
This matter
comes before the Board on a petition filed March
31,
1986 by Borden Chemicals Company, now before the Board as
Borden Chemicals and Plastics Operating Limited Partnership
(“Borden”).
(See Order of August
4,
1988.)
Borden seeks
site—
specific relief from the Board’s effluent limitations
for total
dissolved solids
(“TDS”) and for chloride and from the require-
ment that no effluent
shall cause a violation of applicable water
quality standards.
35
Ill.
Adm. Code 302.208 and 304.105.
Borden’s discharges originate at its Illiopolis,
Illinois plant
and are primarily attributable to wastewater from the air
pollution control equipment which Borden began operating
in 1978.
Procedural History
The merit hearing was held on December 10,
1986
in
Springfield,
Illinois.
The Economic Impact Study
(“EcIS”) was
filed by the Department
of Energy and Natural Resources
(“DENR”)
on October
17,
1988.
The hearing on the EcIS was held on January
10,
1989.
On February 22,
1989,
the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency
(“Agency”)
filed its comments and Borden filed
its Response to Hearing Officer’s Request for Information.
The Board’s First Notice Opinion and Order was issued on
February
8,
1990.
Notice was published in the
Illinois Register
as Part 304.211 at Ill.
Reg.
2999 on March
2,
1990.
On April
12,
1990,
the Agency submitted comments
to the Board’s First Notice
Opinion and Order.
On April
18,
1990,
Borden filed
its Response
to the Agency Comments
to First
Notice.
The Board wishes
to acknowledge the contributions of
Margaret
A.
Dolan Fuss, who acted as hearing officer and
participated
in drafting these site—specific rules,
and Elizabeth
Schroer Harvey and Lorilyn Chamberlin, who acted as hearing
officers.
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As a result of First Notice Comments,
the Board deemed
it
appropriate
to issue
a second First Notice Opinion and Order on
June
7,
1990.
Notice was published in the Illinois Register
as
Part 303.431 at 14
Ill. Reg.
9784, effective June 22,
1990 and
Part 304.211 at
14
Ill.
Reg.
9700,
also effective June 22,
1990.
The 45—day comment period ended on August
6,
1990.
The
Board received comments from both the Agency
(“Agency”) and
Borden on August
6,
1990.
On August
8, 1990,
comments were also
received from the Administrative Code Unit of the Office of the
Secretary of State suggesting minor language changes.
The Board issued its Second Notice Proposed Rule,
Opinion
and Order on August
30,
1990.
The Second Notice period began on
October
9,
1990 and ended November
26,
1990.
The Joint Committee
on Administrative (“JCAR”) issued its Letter of No Objection on
November
20,
1990.
Background
The present petition relates
to Borden’s Illiopolis,
Illinois plant, which
is one of more than 50 plants operated by
Borden.
The facility
is located in a rural
area one mile west of
Illiopolis.
The plant primarily produces polyvinyl chloride
resins,
polyvinyl acetate emulsions, and polyvinyl chloride
plastic film.
The plant presently employs in the range of 300
people.
The wastewater effluent from Borden’s plant contains
elevated levels
of total
dissolved solids (“TDS”) and chloride.
This
is largely due to wastewater from the air pollution control
equipment which Borden installed to comply with the National
Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (“NESHAPS”)
promulgated for vinyl
chloride pursuant
to Section 301(a)
of
the
Clean Air Act.
The emission control system became operational on
October
21,
1978,
and was installed at
a cost of $15 million.
This wastewater
is commingled with other sources of plant
wastewater prior
to discharge.
The plant discharges
approximately 800,000 gallons of effluent per day.
The maxium
TDS concentration has been as high as 2720 mg/u during the period
from June,
1989 through June,
1990,
during which time the average
peaked at 2380 mg/l in November of 1989.
During the same months,
the chloride concentration reached
a maximum of 760 mg/u,
and the
average chloride concentration peaked at 676 mg/l in November
of
1989.
See Borden’s Comments, August
6,
1990.
These
concentrations do not violate any technology—based effluent
limitations,
but the discharge may cause water quality violations
for TDS and chlorides
in the receiving waters.
Borden discharges
its effluent into a unnamed tributary
which drains into Long Point Slough about one and one—half miles
downstream of
the discharge.
Long Point Slough
flows into the
west branch of the Old River less than a mile from the confluence
with the unnamed tributary.
The east branch
of Old River
:5
blocked by a levee, but the west branch carries flows downstream
to its confluence with the Sangamon River.
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The unnamed tributary is approximately four feet wide.
It
has been channelized
in the past,
and no meandering
or natural
movement has occurred in recent years.
For the most part,
the
ditch is overgrown with grasses,
trees,
and other vegetation.
During dry weather, Borden’s
800,000 gallons per day of effluent
constitute 90—95
of the tributary flow.
During wet weather,
flows increase substantially due to agricultural
runoff from
pastures adjacent to the tributary.
Like the unnamed tributary, Long Point Slough receives
a
majority of
its dry weather flow from industrial wastewater.
The
Illiopolis sewage treatment plant also discharges
into the Slough
several kilometers upstream of its confluence with the unnamed
tributary.
The Slough ranges from
3
to
5 meters wide and varies
in depth from a few centimeters
to several meters.
The banks
along the Slough are heavily vegetated.
Borden’s effluent discharge is governed by both TDS and
chloride water quality standards
in the unnamed tributary
downstream of Borden’s discharge or
in Long Point Slough
downstream of the confluence with the unnamed tributary
(Petition,
Exhibit A, Table
1).
The applicable regulation
provides that concentrations of total dissolved solids
(“TDS”)
and of chloride shall not exceed 1000 mg/i and 500 mg/i,
respectively.
35
Ill.
Adrn.
Code 302.208.
Additionally, Borden’s
discharge
is also regulated under
35
Ill. Adm. Code 304.105,
which provides that
no effluent, alone or
in combination with
other sources, shall cause a violation of any water quality
standard.
Statutory Authority
Proposals for site—specific regulations are governed by the
provisions of Title VII of the Act, specifically, Section
27
(Ill.
Rev. Stat.
1987 ch.
111—1/2, par.
1027).
Subsection
(a),
in relevant part,
states as follows:
a.
The Board may adopt substantive
regulations as
described in this Act.
Any such regulations may
make different provisions as
required by
circumstances for different contaminant sources and
for different geographical areas.. .and may include
regulations specific
to individual persons or
sites.
In promulgating regulations under
this Act,
the Board shall take into account the existing
physical conditions,
the character
of the area
involved...the nature of the...receiving body of
water...and the technical feasibility and economic
reasonableness of measuring or reducing the
particular type of pollution.
Section
27
(a)
of the Act.
(emphasis added)
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Technical Feasibility and Economic Reasonableness
As more fully described in the Board’s First Notice Opinion
and Order
of February
8,
1990,
Borden’s compliance with existing
standards may be technically feasible, but compliance would not
be economically reasonable in this case.
The EcIS reports
compliance costs ranging from $877,483 to $1,486,568.
Borden’s
estimation of the cost to comply was much greater,
ranging from
$17,733,000
to $80,838,000 for
the same compliance alternatives
evaluated by DENR.
The Board found that Borden’s cost estimates
more accurately depicted the costs to comply.
The Agency’s
comments also concluded that Borden’s figure appeared more
realistic.
Environmental
Impact
The environmental benefit from compliance would be minimal
according to reliable information from both Borden and the
Agency.
The Board concluded in its First Notice Opinion and
Order
of February 8,
1990 that under these circumstances, the
costs of compliance outweigh any environmental benefit presented
in the record.
This same conclusion was also reached
by Borden,
the Agency,
and DENR.
The Board found that based on the record
before
it, site—specific regulatory relief should be granted.
The Board’s First Notice Opinion and Order summarized the
environmental impact
as follows:
....Much of the information on environmental effects
comes from the following sources;
the “1984 Survey of
Unnamed Ditch and Long Point Slough for the Borden
Chemical Company” by the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia (Petition; Attachment A);
the “Water
Quality Assessment of
a Major Portion of the Sangamon
River Basin” Volume
II, March 31,
1983 by the Agency
(Ex.
2); various effluent and water quality sampling
done by Borden
(Petition; Attachments C and D);
two
stream assessment surveys by the Agency
(Exs.
5
&
6) and
hearing testimony concerning these documents.
The above materials support,
and the participants
agree,
that the impacted areas of concern extend,
at
most, fromthe point of discharge at the unnamed
tributary
to the point
of confluence with the Sangamon
River.
Further,
the stretch of the Old River
included
in
this segment
is so distant as
to receive only rniminal
impact and then only during very
low flow conditions.
Clearly the primary areas of concern for the elevated
TDS and chloride levels are the unnamed tributary and
Long Point Slough.
The Academy of Natural Sciences
of Philadelphia
conducted a study of the impacted area
in July and
September of
1984.
That study evaluated the chemical,
physical and biological factors
of
significance at
six
sampling stations.
The study evaluated the impact of
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more than just TDS and chlorides.
The results
of the
Academy of Natural Sciences were cogently summarized as
follows:
Results of
the studies
indicate that
the
chemical
composition
and
physical
characteristics
of
the
water
of
the
unnamed ditch and Lont
sic
Point slough
are
altered
by
the discharged
effluent.
Biological
impacts,
however,
were
most
evident
immediately
downstream
of
the
Borden
plant
outfall
on
the
unnamed
ditch,
especially
during
the
low—flow
survey
conducted
in
September.
The
low
diversity
of
available
habitat
and
the
seasonal
(intermittent)
nature
of
the
flow
of
water
in
the
ditch
strongly
influenced
the
chemical,
physical
and
biological
character
of
the
receiving
bodies.
The only demonstrable impacts on
the
biota
of
Long
Point
Slough
were
subtle
changes
in
algal
species
composition
and
increased
algal
growth
downstream
of
the
unnamed
ditch.
The
impacts observed during this study appear
to
result
primarily
from
nutrient
enrichment
and
toxicity
of
un-ionized
ammonia.
There
is no
indication that the
concentrations
of
chlorides
and
total
dissolved solids observed
at
the
time of
the
study
would
alter
the
biota
of
the
receiving streams.
(Pet., Attachment A, p.i)
The Agency’s 1985 Streams Assessment Survey reached
similar conclusions:
The data from the present survey compared
well
with
the
results
reported
by
ANSP.
There
was
a
definite
shift
in
macroinvertebrate
populations
downstream
of
the Borden
discharge
toward
the more
pollution
tolerant
Chironomidae
and
Oligochata.
From the Agency data
it also
appeared
that
the
major
impact
upon
the
stream
occurred
in
the
vicinity
of
Station
C—2,
approximately
1.0
mile
downstream.
The ANSP did
not
collect
a
sample
in
this
area.
At
Station
C—3,
approximately
2.8
miles
downstream,
the
stream
had
almost
returned
to
upstream
conditions.
There appeared
to
be
little
or
no
impact
on
Long
Point
Slough.
(Ex.
5,
p.
2)
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The EcIS evaluated several environmental impacts.
First,
the report estimated that the levels of chloride
and TDS would impact
25
of the spawning fish each year,
killing a total of 128 fish for each of
30 years.
The
report stated that contamination from the waterways
would enter underground water and contaminate six
private wells associated with homesteads near the
unnamed tributary and Long Point
Slough.
The report
calculated 87.6 person—hours per year of discomfort from
drinking contaminated water.
The
report also calculated
that contamination of the Illiopolis public water supply
with dissolved solids would result
in $37,278 of
corrosion to metallic surfaces due to dissolved solids
levels.
The connection of chlorides in the drinking
water
to high blood pressure and cardiac disease was
considered too tenuous to evaluate.
There was substantial testimony at hearing that the
ditch would be a discharge point
for the groundwater
rather than the other way around.
(January 10,
1989
Hearing,
p.
17—21,
73—91).
Woodward—Clyde Consultants
prepared a short geology and hydrogeology report which
concluded that Borden effluent
is not entering local
groundwater wells.
(Ex.
13,
pp.
23—27).
The Agency did
not embrace the concept of groundwater contamination
from Borden’s effluent.
R86—l4, Opinion and Order,
Feb.
8,
1990 pp.5—7.
First Notice Proposed Rule
In its First Notice Opinion and Order,
the Board proposed
site—specific relief
in the form of an amendment to 35
Ill.
Adm.
Code,
Subtitle C:
Water Pollution, Chapter
I, Pollution Control
Board, Part
304, Effluent Standards.
At First Notice,
the Board
proposed
to add a new section
to Subpart
B:
Site-Specific Rules
and Exceptions Not of General Applicability.
The proposed new
section,
35
Ill. Adm. Code 304.211, would be entitled:
Discharges from Borden Chemicals and Plastics Operating Limited
Partnership Into An Unnamed Tributary of Long Point Slough.
The
language of
the new section limited relief to Borden’s
Illiopolis
Plant and provided relief from Section 304.105 as
it applies to
water quality standards for total dissolved solids and chlorides
limitations of Section 302.208.
The relief would be effective
so
long as total dissolved solids and chloride concentrations do not
exceed 2,500 mg/l and 800 mg/i,
respectively.
The new section as initially proposed stated:
Section 304.211
Discharges From Borden Chemicals and
Plastics Operating Limited
Partnership Into an Unnamed
Tributary of Long Point Slough
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a)
This Section applies to effluent from Borden
Chemicals and Plastics Operating Limited
Partnership’s Illiopolis
Plant which
is discharged
to an unnamed tributary of Long Point Slough
in
Sangamon County,
Illinois.
b)
Such discharges shall
not be subject to Section
304.105 as
it applies
to the water quality
standards for total dissolved solids and chlorides
of Section 302.208
in the unnamed tributary and
Long Point Slough
to the confluence with the
Sangamon River
so long as
the concentration of
total
dissolved solids does not exceed 2,500 mg/i
and so long as the concentration of chloride does
not exceed 800 mg/i in those waters.
First Notice Comments
Although the First Notice Opinion and Order provided for
regulatory relief
for Borden by the addition of
a new Section
304.211,
in response to the Agency’s comments filed April
12,
1990, the Board proposed to restructure
the relief
to be
granted.
The Agency’s comments highlighted two issues:
(1)
the
need to fashion relief
in Part 303, rather than
in Part
304 as
had been proposed at First Notice; and
(2)
the need for
numeric limits
for total dissolved solids and chloride
concentrations which specify monthly average effluent
limitations,
as well as the maximum daily concentrations
designated by the Board at First Notice.
The Agency referred the Board to USEPA’s position
in
reviewing the John Deere site—specific rulemaking
in R8l-26,
that
USEPA considered that the kind of relief proposed
at First Notice
amounted to de facto revision of
the water quality standards for
the receiving stream.
According to the Agency,
to
be approvable
under
federal law, the relief
for Borden should be included
in
Part 303, Water Use Designations and Site—Specific Water Quality
Standards,
Subpart
C:
Site—Specific Designations and Site—
Specific Water Quality Standards.
Second First Notice Proposed Rule
The second First Notice proposal specifically incorporated
the Agency’s suggestions
in First Notice Comments filed April
12,
1990 that:
(1)
relief should be structured
in the form of
amendments to both Part 303 and Part 304; and
(2) monthly average
effluent limitations
should be established
in addition
to the
specified maximum daily concentrations.
(See R86—l4, Second
First Notice Opinion and Order,
pp.
2—4, May
24,
1990.)
The
second First Notice proposal provided
new
Section 303.431 and
304.211 as follows:
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Section 303.431
Long Point Slough and Its Unnamed
Tributary
The general use water quality standards
for total
dissolved solids and for chloride contained
in Section
302.208 shall not apply to Long Point Slough and its
unnamed tributary, which receive discharges from the
Illiopolis,
Illinois facility of Borden Chemicals and
Plastics Operating Limited Partnership,
from the outfall
of that facility
to the point
of the confluence of the
unnamed tributary downstream with the Sangamon River.
Instead this water shall comply with a total dissolved
solids standard of 2,500 mg/l and a chloride standard of
800 mg/I.
Section 304.211
Discharges From Borden Chemicals and
Plastics Operating Limited
Partnership Into an Unnamed
Tributary of Long Point Slough
The effluent standards
for total dissolved solids and
chloride discharged from the Illiopolis,
Illinois
facility of Borden Chemicals and Plastics Operating
Limited Partnership into an unnamed tributary of Long
Point Slough shall comply with the following effluent
limitations
as measured at the point of discharge to the
unnamed tributary:
Total Dissolved
2,500 mg/l daily maximum
Solids
2,200 mg/l monthly average
Chloride
800 mg/i
daily maximum
700 mg/i
monthly average
Second First Notice Comments
In separate comments filed on August
6,
1990,
the Agency and
Borden remained in agreement that site—specific relief should be
granted.
Three principal issues were raised
in the second First
Notice comments:
(1)
the particular sections(s)
of the Board’s
regulations which should be amended to provide site—specific
relief;
(2)
the specific numeric limitations
for chloride and
total dissolved solids
(“TDS”);
and
(3)
the use of average
monthly limitations for these discharges.
1.
Form of Regulatory Relief
In the second First Notice Opinion and Order dated May 24,
1990,
the Board proposed amendments
to the water quality
provisions
of
35
Ill. Adm. Code
303 and to the effluent standards
of
35
Ill.
Adm. Code 304.
This represented a change from the
Board’s First Notice Opinion and Order
of February
8,
1990, which
provided regulatory relief by amending only Part
304 Effluent
Standards.
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In comments filed on August
6,
1990,
the Agency suggested
that,
in lieu of new Sections 303.431 and 304.211 above,
amendment
of Part 303 alone “adequately addresses the changes
in
both water quality and effluent standards applicable
to Borden’s
Illiopolis
facility.”
Agency Recommendation,
p.
3.
The Agency
recommended structuring the requested relief
in Section 303.431
alone,
as follows:
Section 303.431
*
Long Point Slough and Its
Unnamed Tributary
a.
This second applies only to Long Point Slough and its
unnamed tributary from the point of Borden Chemicals and
Plastics Operating Limited Partnership’s Illiopolis
Plant’s discharge to the confluence of Long Point Slough
and Old River.
b.
The General Use water quality standards for total
dissolved solids and for chloride contained in Section
302.208 shall not apply to Long Point
Slough and its
unnamed tributary as described above
in subsection
(a).
Instead, this water
shall comply
with
a total
dissolved solids standard of 3000 mg/i and
a chloride
standard of
900 mg/i.
c.
Section 304.105 shall not apply to total dissolved
solids and chloride discharge by Borden Chemicals and
Plastics Operating Limited Partnership as described in
subsection
(a),
so long as effluent discharged from the
facility complies with the following effluent
limitations as measured at the point of discharge to
the
unnamed tributary:
Daily Maximum
Total Dissolved Solids
3000 mg/i
Chloride
900 mg/i
The Agency’s proposed Section 303.431(c) would impact the
regulatory provision found
in Section 304.105 that effluent
discharges shall not cause a violation of an applicable water
quality standard.
The Agency’s proposed subparagraph
(c)
would
provide relief for Borden from this requirement governing
effluent discharges as an amendment
to Part 303, Water Use
Designations and Site—Specific Water Quality Standards,
rather
than within Part 304, Effluent Standards.
The Board noted
that the regulatory structure proposed by
the Agency was used in the past in the case of Marathon Petroleum
Company, R87—2 Opinion and Order,
Sept.
13,
1989.
However,
the
The Agency’s August
6,
1990 filing referred
to
Section
303.341 which the Board concluded was
a typographical error.
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Board was persuaded that the format used in the second First
Notice proposal would be more appropriate,
and
it would
be
consistent with the relief fashioned in the Board’s more recent
rulemaking, Site—Specific Limitation for the Modine Manufacturing
Company Facility, Ringwood, Illinois, R87—36, Opinion and Order,
May 24, 1990.
The Board noted that
to restructure the relief
might require a third First Notice and consequent delays for
procedural objectives only.
As stated in the Board’s May
24,
1990 Opinion and Order
(p.
3)
in this matter,
the Agency had also
indicated that USEPA might also find acceptable the regulatory
structure proposed at second First Notice,
and, therefore,
further language revisions appeared unnecessary.
2.
Numeric Limitations on Effluent Discharges
The separate comments received from both the Agency and
Borden supported a modest increase
in the numeric limitations for
TDS and chloride concentrations.
Rather than the initially
proposed daily maximums of 2,500 mg/l and 800 mg/l for TDS and
chloride, respectively,
the participants strongly recommended
that the limitations be set at 3,000 mg/l for TDS and 900 mg/i
for chloride.
The Board previously found that absence of
significant environmental harm and the extreme costs of
compliance supported the permanent relief requested.
Furthermore, Borden provided historical data showing that the
initially proposed numeric limitations would be exceeded
periodically, resulting in violations of the newly established
standards.
The Board thus
found that the numeric limitations
should be
increased as
requested by the participants.
3.
Monthly
Average Limitations
At second First Notice,
the Board imposed monthly average
effluent limitations
in direct response to the Agency’s comments
filed on April 12,
1990.
The Board stated in its second First
Notice Opinion and Order that “some
level of monthly average
limitations are ordinarily appropriate in conjunction with daily
maximum limitations
to regulate the total effluents received into
waters of the State.”
Opinion and Order, May
24,
1990
(p.
4).
However,
the participants later agreed that the lack of
environmental harm supported
a Einding that monthly average
limitations should not be required.
Since the Agency asserted
that
the daily maximum discharge
“does not impair the water
quality of the receiving stream,” the Board concurred with the
Agency’s revised position
in this limited factual setting, and
the Board eliminated the monthly average limitations
in the
Second Notice Proposed Rule.
(See Agency Comments, August
6,
1990,
p.2)
As
a result of second First Notice Comments discussed above,
the Board found that the Agency and Borden provided sufficient
support for increasing the numeric limitations
for TDS and
chloride discharges and for deleting the monthly average
limitations.
The Board therefore proposed for Second Notice
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the following amendments
to Parts
303 and
304:
Section 303.431
Long Point Slough and Its Unnamed
Tributary
The general use water quality standards
for
total dissolved solids and for chloride
contained in Section 302.208 shall not apply
to Long Point Slough and its unnamed trib-
utary,
which receive discharges from the
Illiopolis,
Illinois facility of Borden
Chemicals and Plastics Operating Limited
Partnership, from the outfall of that facility
to the point of the confluence of the unnamed
tributary downstream with the Sangamon
River.
Instead this water
shall comply with a
total dissolved solids standard of 3,000 mg/l
and a chloride standard of 900 mg/i.
Section 304.211
Discharges From Borden Chemicals and
Plastics Operating Limited Partnership
Into an Unnamed Tributary of
Long
Point Slough
The effluent standards
for total dissolved
solids and chloride discharged from the
Iiliopolis,
Illinois facility of Borden
Chemicals and Plastics Operating Limited
Partnership into an unnamed tributary
of
Long
Point Slough shall comply with the following
effluent limitations
as measured at the point
of discharge to the unnamed tributary:
Total Dissolved
3,000 mg/l daily maximum
Solids
Chloride
900 mg/l daily maximum
Final Adopted Rule
Having received from JCAR its Letter
of No Objection based
on the above rule proposed for Second Notice,
the Board
finds
that no other changes are necessary
to the proposed rule.
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ORDER
The Board hereby adopts the following amendments
to 35
Ill.
Adm. Code 303 and 304 and directs the Clerk
to file these
amendments with the Secretary of State.
Part 303
Water Use Designations and Site Specific Water
Quality Standards
Section 303.431
Long Point Slough and Its Unnamed
Tributary
The general use water quality
standards for total dissolved solids and for
chloride contained in Section 302.208 shall
not apply
to Long Point Slough and its unnamed
tributary, which receive discharges from the
Illiopolis,
Illinois facility of Borden
Chemicals and Plastics Operating Limited
Partnership, from the outfall of that facility
to the point of the confluence of
the unnamed
tributary downstream with the Sangamon
River.
Instead this water
shall comply with a
total dissolved solids standard of 3,000 mg/l
and
a
chloride standard of 900 mg/l.
Part 304
Effluent Standards
Section 304.211
Discharges From Borden Chemicals and
Plastics Operating Limited
Partnership Into an Unnamed Tributary
of Long Point Slough
The effluent standards for total dissolved
solids and chloride discharged from the
Illiopolis,
Illinois facility of
Borden
Chemicals and Plastics Operating Limited
Partnership into an unnamed tributary of Long
Point Slough shall comply with the following
effluent limitations as measured at the point
of discharge to the unnamed tributary:
Total Dissolved
3,000 mg/i daily maximum
Solids
Chloride
900 mg/l daily maximum
IT
IS SO ORDERED.
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I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
Clerk of the
Illinois Pollution Control
Board, hereby certify that the abo
e
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____________________
,
1990, by a
adopted on the
c~7~
day of
~
and Order was
vote of
‘7—o
4 ~
Dorothy M
,Gjinn, Clerk
Illinois P~X1utionControl Board
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