RECE~VED
CLERK’S OFFICE
FEB
23
2004
ONTROL BOARD
BEFORE THE ILLINOIS
POLLUTION
C
STATE OF
ILLINOIS
Pollution Control Board
IN THE MATTER OF:
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)
SDWA UPDATE, USEPA AMENDMENTS
(January 1, 2003
through
June 30, 2003)
R04-3
)
(Identical-in-Substance
)
Rulemaking- Public Water Supply)
)
NOTICE
OF FILING
Dorothy Gunn, Clerk
Illinois Pollution Control Board
James R. Thompson
Center
100 W.
Randolph, Suite 11-500
Chicago, Illinois 6060 1-3218
Michael J. McCambridge, Hearing Officer
Illinois Pollution Control Board
James R. Thompson Center
100
W.
Randolph, Suite 11-500
Chicago, Illinois
60601-3218
Matthew J. Dunn, Chief
Environmental Bureau
Office of the Attorney General
James R. Thompson Center
100 West Randolph, 12th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Jonathan Fun, Chief Legal Counsel
Department ofNatural Resources
One Natural Resources Way
Springfield, Illinois 62702-1271
PLEASE
TAKE NOTICE that todayI have filed with the Office ofthe Clerk ofthe
Pollution Control Board the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s Appearance and
Comments
for the above-titled proceeding, a copy ofwhich is herewith served upon you.
DATE:
February 20, 2004
1021 North Grand Avenue East
P.O. Box
19276
Springfield,
IL 62794-9276
(217)
782-5544
Respectfully submitted,
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
By:
Manager, Regulatory Section
THIS FILING IS SIJBMITTED ON RECYCLED PAPER
RECEIVED
CLERK’S OFFICE
BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOAI9EB
232004
IN
THE MATTER OF:
SDWA UPDATE, USEPA AMENDMENTS
(January
1, 2003
through
June 30, 2003)
)
)
R04-3
STATE OF ILLINOIS
Pollution Control Board
)
(Identical-in-Substance
)
Rulemaking- Public Water Supply)
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APPEARANCE
The undersigned, as one ofits attorneys, hereby enters an Appearance on behalf ofthe
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
DATE:
February 20, 2004
1021
North Grand Ave. East
P.O. Box
19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
(217) 782-5544
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
-
By:
Manager, Regulatory Section
THIS DOCUMENT SUBMITTED ON RECYCLED PAPER
RECEIVED
CLERK’S OFFICE
BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL
BOARDFEB
232004
STATE OF ILLINOIS
Pollution Control Board
IN THE MATTER OF:
)
)
R04-3
SDWA UPDATE, USEPA AMENDMENTS
)
(Identical-in-Substance
(January
1, 2003 through
)
Rulemaking- Public Water Supply)
June 30, 2003)
)
AGENCY’S COMMENTS
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (“Agency”) respectfully submits its
comments in the above-titled matterto the Illinois Pollution Control Board (“Board”) pursuant to
35 Iii. Adm. Code
102.108 and 102.610, the Board’s Opinion and Order of December 18, 2003
and the Board’s Order ofDecember 18, 2003.
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With regard to the Board’s deletion ofpast
effective dates and the deletion ofeffective
dates that will become past between the date ofthe Board’s Order and when the Board intends to
file adopted amendments in February 2004, the Agency recommends that the effective dates not
to be deleted. The Agency believes that deleting the effective dates from the following sections:
611.130(f), 611 .330(d)-(f), 611 .609(a)& (b), 611.611(b), 611 .646(o)(1)-(7),
611
.648(d)(1)-(5),
611.731 (b)-(e),
611 .732(a)-(f), 611.733 and 611
.957(a)(3)
would be confusing to the regulated
community due to
the different sampling cycles ofpublic water supplies.
Due to the complexity
ofthe monitoring periods for the multitude of contaminants regulated, the Agency recommends
that the Board retain the effective dates for at least one full sampling cycle (at the least three
years) to assist
the regulated community in meeting these requirements.
With regard to the Board’s deletion of “after June 19, 1986” in Section 611.126(a)
pertaining to the prohibition on use oflead, the Agency would like to retain the date on a
permanentbasis.
The Agency believes that the date is needed to ensure
compliance when
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additions
are made to older buildings or when violations are discovered on plumbing installed
afterthe June
19,
1986 date.
With regard to the Board’s repealing ofSections 611.680 and
611.685 the Agency would
request that they not be repealed.
These two Sections are not obsolete.
There are community
water system (CWS) suppliers that may have obtained data pursuant to these two Sections and in
turn will use that datato fulfill the requirements in Section 611.742.
Retention ofthese two
Sections will simplify the compliance calculation process for suppliers that can use data
collected under these provisions.
Finally, with regard to the proposed amendments in Section 611 .742(a)(6), the Agency
recommends retaining the mathematical symbol
“a”
and adding the parenthetical phrase
“(greater than or equal to)” following the symbol in both places.
Respectfully submitted,
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
PROT~~JO)T-~EN~Y
By:~Lly4Øf’
Seot(Phillips
Manager, Regulatory Section
Date:
February 20, 2004
1021 North Grand Ave. East
P.O. Box
19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
(217)782-5544
THIS DOCUMENT SUBMITTED ON RECYCLED PAPER
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STATE OF ILLINOIS
COUNTY OF
SANGAMON
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PROOF OF SERVICE
I, the undersigned, on oath state that I have served the attached the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency’s Appearance
and Comments upon the person to whom ~itis directed by
placing a copy in an envelope addressed:
TO:
Dorothy Gunn, Clerk
Illinois Pollution Control Board
James R.
Thompson Center
100W.
Randolph, Suite 11-500
Chicago, illinois 60601-3218
(Overnight Mail)
Michael J. McCambridge, Hearing Officer
Illinois Pollution Control Board
James R. Thompson
Center
100
W. Randolph, Suite 11-500
Chicago, Illinois
60601-3218
(Overnight mail)
Matthew J. Dunn, Chief
Environmental Bureau
Office ofthe Attorney General
James R. Thompson Center
100 West Randolph,
12th Floor
Chicago, Illinois
60601
(Overnight Mail)
Jonathan Fun, ChiefLegal
Counsel
Department ofNatural Resources
One Natural Resources Way
Springfield, Illinois 62702-127 1
(Overnight Mail)
and mailing it from Springfield, Illinois on February 20, 2004, with sufficient postage affixed, as
indicated above.
SUBSCRIBED AND
SWORN
TO BEFORE ME
This
20th
day ofFebruary, 2004
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CYNTHIA L.
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