ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

August 21, 2003

 

IN THE MATTER OF:

 

AMENDMENTS TO THE BOARD’S

ADMINISTRATIVE RULES: 2 ILL. ADM.

CODE 2175

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R04-9

(Rulemaking - Procedural)

 

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