ILLINOIS POLLUTION

CONTROL BOAF~

November

23,

1977

IN TUE MATTER OF:

WATER POLLUTION

CONTROL

R74~l5,

AMENDMENTS:

CYANIDE

(CONSOL iIDATED)

ORDER

OF

THE

BOARD

(by Mr. Goodman)

The following

Proposed

Final Draft Order in

~

~“~-ter shall

be set for

publication and public

comment.

A public comment

period

of

60 days from the

date of this

Order shall be allowed,

during

which time any

written comment

frorr any person ~hal1

be

accepted at

the office of the

Clerk of

the Boani, pursuant to the

Illinois

Administrative

Procedure Act

and

Board~sProredural

Rules.

Ill,

Rev.

Stat.,

Ch.

127,

§1005

(1977),

as amended

Ill.

PCB Regs.,

Ch.

1,

§~l03—l05,

20l~-212 (1977)

publication pursuant

to

this

Order shall

include publication

the Illinois Register.

PROPOSED

FIDAL DRAFT

1.

Rule

203(f) of Chapter

3:

Water Pollution of

the

Pollution

Control Board

Rules

~nd Regulati us,

insofar

as

it

pertains to cyanide,

shall be amendeu as

follows:

Cyanide

(total)

0720

9~9~S

0.10

2.

Rule

205 of Chapter

3:

Water Pollution of the

Pollution

Control Board Rules

and Regulations

shall

be amended

by addition of a

new subpart

~(g)”,

as

follows:

(g) Cyanide

(total)

shall not exceed 0.30 mg/i

~

at

any time after July

1,

1983.

3.

Rule

206(c)

of Chapter

3:

Water

Pollution

of the

Pollution

Control Board Rules

and Regulations,

insofar

as it sets

specific water

quality standards for

certain

chemical

constituents,

shall

be amended by addition

of

a water

quality standard

for cyanide,

as follows:

c~jto~1i

0720

0,025 mg/I

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4~

Rule 408(a)

of

9iapter

3:

Water Pollution of the

Pollution Control

ard

Rules and Regulations, insofar

as it pertains to cyanide,

shall be amended as follows:

Cyanide

(total)

0720

9~92.~

0,lO**

~Ischarges

to Secondary Contact and Indigenous Aquatic

Life

Waters shall not exceed 0.30 mg/l at any time before

July

1,

1983, or 0.10 mg/l at any time after July

1,

1983,

except for discharges from the Calumet Treatment Plant of

the

Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago,

which

shall not exceed 0.30 mg/l at any time.

Compliance

with cyanide effluent limitations shall be determined by

24-~hourcomposite samples averaged over any monthly period;

no single 24—hour composite sample shall exceed twice the

numerical standard and no instantaneous

(grab)

sample shall

exceed five times the numerical standard.

5.

Rule 703 of Chapter

3:

Water Pollution of the Pollution

Control Board Rules and Regulations

shall be amended as

follows:

703. Cyanide

(STORET number

-

(a)

No waste to any public sewer system shall contain

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~

more than

10 mg/l

total cyanide

provided any sample tested shall not

release

more than

2 mg/l of cyanide when tested

at a pH of 4.5 and at a temperature of 150°F.for

~~iodof

30 minutes, except as permitted by

Rule 703(bT~

(b)

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Upon

application

by a county, municipality, sanitary~

district

b~public

utility and approval by the

Agency, upon determination by the Agency that no

violation of

the

effluent criteria of this Chapter

will result and that no hazard to workers

in such

sewage works will result,

limited additional amounts

of cyanide exceeding the standards

in part

(a)

of’

this Rule 703 may be discharged to the sewage works

of such coui~ji~,sanitary district, municipality or

public utili~y~

(c)

Nothing

in this Rule 703 shall

be

construed as

limiting

the

authority of any county, municipality,

sanitary district or public utility to impose any

more stringent standards or limitations

on cyanide

discharges

to its sewage works.

I,

Christan

L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereby

certif~the above Proposed Final Draft Order was

adopted on the

~

day of

,

1977 by a vote of

.

.

Christan L. Mo

t, Clerk

Illinois Pollu ion Control Board

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