ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 19, 1999
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    )
    UIC UPDATE, USEPA REGULATIONS
    )
    R00-3
    (January 1, 1999, through June 30, 1999)
    )
    (Identical-in-Substance
    )
    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) (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 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
    . (1998). 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 from January 1, 1999, through June 30, 1999.
    USEPA adopted no UIC amendments during this time period. 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 19th day of August 1999 by a vote of 7-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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