ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

January

12,

1984

IN THE MATTER OF:

PETITION FOR SITE SPECIFIC

)

R82—3

EXCEPTION TO EFFLUENT

STANDARDS

FOR ALTON WATER TREATMENT PLANT

~~2~ed_Rule.

Second Notice,

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by 3.

Anderson):

In its Proposed Opinion and Order of October 6,

1983,

the

Board proposed to adopt a new rule,

35 Iii.

Adm.

Code 304.206.

First notice of this proposal was published at

7

Iii.

Reg.

14910,

November

14, 1983,

the first notice comment period therefore

ending December

28,

1983.

The Administrative Code Unit submitted

a comment on November 21,

1983,

concerning Illinois Register

first notice format and noting

a typographical error in the rule.

The Agency submitted a comment on January

3,

1984,

which

late

submittal

is accepted

in light of usual holiday—related problems.

The thrust of the Agency~scomment

is that it “has no

objection

to the rule proposed by the Board

fbutj

is

concerned

with the sweeping language of the Board’s resolution

of the

Agency’s earlier comments

tin the Board’s Proposed Opinion of

October

6,

1983~

(PC

2, p.1).

In the interests of administrative

economy, the Board will defer consideration of any amendment of

its Proposed Opinion until adoption of a Final Opinion and Order

in this matter.

The Board therefore directs that second r~otice

of the following rule be submitted

to the Joint Committee on

Administrative Rules:

TITLE

35:

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

SUBTITLE

C:

WATER POLLUTION

CHAPTER

I:

POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

SUBPART

B:

SITE SPECIFIC RULES AND EXCEPTIONS

NOT OF GENERAL APPLICABILITY

Section 304.206

Alton_Water

c~pa9y~

Treatment_Plant Disch~es

This Section applies

to the existin

8.3 million gallons per da~

potable drinking water

reatment~p1antowned ~~ythe

Alton Water

56-47

---

Com~~y~wh

ioh is be

I

at

and dischar

es

into,

river mile 204.4

on the

Missis~p~iRiver.

Such dischar~~haU

not be

sub

ject to

the ef

fluent standards for total

su

~~1ed

solid

sand total

iron

of

35

III.

Adm.

Code 304,124,

IT

IS SO ORDERED.

I,

Christen L~ Moffett, Clerk

of the

Illinois

Pollution

Control

Board,

hereby ~ertify

that the

above

Opinion and Order

was adopted

on the

_____

day

of

___________

1984 by

a

vote

of

7~_,

A

-

Christen

L.

Moffett, /~~rk

Illinots

Pollution

Cdn~rol Board