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August 21, 2003

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by T.E. Johnson):

 Today the Board opens a new docket to propose amendments to its administrative rules at Part 2175 of Title 2 of the Illinois Administrative Code. The administrative rules, last amended in 1996, describe the Board’s organization, the types of Board proceedings, how to pay filing and photocopy fees, and how the public may access information. Amendments to these rules are needed primarily (1) to reflect recent statutory changes affecting the Board; (2) to accommodate filing fee payment when filing electronically is allowed through the Board’s new Clerk’s Office On-Line or “COOL”; and (3) to update information about the Board’s proceedings and offices.

For example, P.A. 93-509, signed and effective just ten days ago, amends the Environmental Protection Act (415 ILCS 5 (2002)), reducing the number of Board members from seven to five. Additionally, in a separate order today, the Board opens docket R04-8, in which the Board is amending its procedural rules to address, among other things, electronic filing through COOL. See Amendments to the Board’s Procedural Rules: 35 Ill. Adm. Code 101-130 , R04-8, slip op. at 1 (Aug. 21, 2003).

The Board plans to proceed expeditiously to first-notice publication of proposed administrative rule amendments in the Illinois Register , which will start a 45-day period during which anyone may file public comments with the Board.

 IT IS SO ORDERED.

 I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the Board adopted the above order on August 21, 2003, by a vote of 7-0.

               Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk

               Illinois Pollution Control Board

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