ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
August 19, 1999
IN THE MATTER OF:
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UST UPDATE, USEPA REGULATIONS
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R00-6
(January 1, 1999, through June 30, 1999)
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(Identical-in-Substance
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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 Su btitle 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, 1999, and June 30, 1999.
During that time period, USEPA did not amend its UST regulations. 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