ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

February 18, 1999

IN THE MATTER OF:

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UIC UPDATE, USEPA REGULATIONS

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R99-13

(July 1, 1998, through December 31, 1998)

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(Identical-in-Substance

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Rulemaking - Land)

Proposed Rule. Dismissal Order.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by E.Z. Kezelis):

Section 13(c) of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/13(c) (1996))

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

Section 7.2 of the Act, to underground injection control (UIC) regulations that the United

States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) adopted to implement provisions of the Safe

Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300h

et seq

. (1996). USEPA has codified its UIC

regulations at 40 C.F.R. 144 through 148. The Board reserved this docket for any UIC

amendments adopted by USEPA between July 1, 1998, and December 31, 1998.

During that time period, USEPA amended its UIC regulations twice in the course of

amending its hazardous waste rules under Subtitle C of the federal Resource Conservation and

Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA Subtitle C), 42 U.S.C. §§ 6921

et seq

. (1996). On August 6,

1998 (63 Fed Reg. 42109), USEPA adopted new waste listings and land disposal restrictions

for petroleum wastes, including certain exclusions from regulation as hazardous waste. On

August 10, 1998 (63 Fed Reg. 42580), USEPA changed the effective dates of the land

disposal restrictions for organobromine production wastes. The Board incorporated these UIC

and RCRA Subtitle C amendments into the consolidated RCRA Subtitle C and UIC update

dockets R98-21/R99-2/R99-7 adopted on December 17, 1998. No further action is required

on these UIC amendments. Therefore, 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 18th day of February 1999 by a vote of 7-0.

Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board