i~tS

POLLUTION

CONTROL

BOAtI~

December

20,

1977

AMENDMENTS

TO

THE

NPDES

REGULATIONS

)

R/3 ~i1,l2

ORDER

OF

THE

BOARD

(by

Mr.

Dumelle~:

Rules

906,

910(h)

(6)

and

910(1)

of

Chapter

Water

Pollution

of

the

Board’s Rules

and

Regulations

ore

hereby

amended

to

read

as

follows:

906

Public

Notice

(a)

Upon

tentative

determination

to

ossue

ox

~o~ny

an

NPDES

Permit,

completion

of

the

draft

permit,

if

any,

and not earlier than

10 days

following notice to

the applicant pursuant to Rule 905(d)

above,

the Agency

shall circulate public notice of the completed app1i~

cation for an NPDES Permit in a manner designed to in~

form interested and potentially interested persons of

the discharge or any proposed discharge of the proposed

determination to issue or deny an NPDES Permit for the

discharge or proposed discharge.

Procedures for the

circulation of public notice shall include at least

the following concurrent actions:

(1)

Notice

shall

be mailed to the

aj~rc1icant;

(2)

Notice shall be circulated within the geographical

areas of the proposed discharge;

such

circulation

may

include any or all of the following:

(i)

Posting

in the post office and public places

of the municipality nearest the premises of

the applicant in which the effluent source

is located;

(ii) Posting near the entrance to the applicant’s

premises and in nearby places;

(iii)Publishing in local newspapers and periodicals,

or,

if appropriate,

in a daily newspaper of

general circulation; and

(iv) Any

ther notice requirements necessary to

meet the requirements of the Act and the FWPCA;

(3)

Notice shall be mailed to any person or group upon

request;

(4)

The Agency shall add the name of any person or

group upon request to a mailing list to receive copies

of notices for all

NPDES

applications within the State

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of Illinois or within a certain geogI

cal area,

Rule 910(h)

(6)

The Agency may establish schedulc~ of compliance

in NPDES Permits pursuant to applicable federal require-

ments, which may be earlier or later than deadlines es-

tablished by otherwise cplicable regulations of the

Board, provided that all

3chedules of compliance shall

require compliance at the earliest reasonable date.

However,

the Agency shall not issue an NPDES Permit

containing a schedule of compliance beyond July

1,

1977,

or any other compliance date established by federal

law,

to any applicant who

is not in compli~ncewith,

or who

has not obtained a variance from applicable Illinois

Water Pollution Regulations,

or who has not been ordered

to apply for and obtain all necessary permits

in an

appropriate Board enforcement action,

for which the

deadline for compliance occurred before the effective

date of these NPDES Rec~iilations,

Rule 910(i)

(i)

Authority to Require Notice of Introduction of

Pollutants into Publicly Owned Treatment Works

The Agency shall include in all NPDES Permits

issued to publicly owned or publicly regulated

treatment works conditions requiring the per—

mittee to give notice to the Agency of the

following:

(1)

Any new introduction of pollutants into

such treatment works from a source which

would be a new source as defined in Section

306 of the FWPCA if such source were dis-

charging pollutants directly to the waters

of the State;

(2)

Except as to such categories and classes

of point sources or discharges which may

be specified by the Agency,

any new intro-

duction of pollutants

into such treatment

works from a source which would be a point

source subject to Section 301 of the FWPCA

if

it

were discharging such pollutants di—

r ctly to the waters of the State;

(3)

Any substantial change

in volume or charac-

ter of pollutants being introduced into

such treatment works

by a source introducing

pollutants

into such works at the time of

issuance of the permit;

and

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(4)

All notices

required of publicly owned

or publicly regulated treatment works pur-

suant to this Section 910(1)

shall be in

such form and content as the Agency may

require, and shall include information on:

(i)

The quality and quantity of wastewater

to be introduced into such treatment

works, and

(ii) Any anticipated impact of such change

in the quantity or quality of effluent to

be discharged from such publicly owned

or publicly regulated treatment works.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan L.

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify the above Order was adopted on

the

~

~

day of

~

,

1977 by a vote of~)

(~~r

~

/

Christan L. Moffett, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board

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