OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE

JESSE WHITE

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Secretary of State

4/27/2005

RECEIVED

CLERK’S OFFICE

POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

APR 292005

100 West Randolph 11-500

Dorothy Gunn

CHICAGO, IL 606010601

Dear Dorothy Gunn

Your rules Listed below met our codification standards and have been published in

Volume 29, Issue 17 of the Illinois Register, dated 4/22/2005.

PROPOSED

RULES

Water Quality Standards (Withdrawal of Proposed)

35 Ill. Adm. Code 302

Page 5782

Point Of Contact:Erin Conley

If you have any questions, you may contact the Administrative Code Division at

(217)782-7017.

STATE OF ILLINOIS

Pollution Control Board

Index Department - Administrative Code Division - 111 East Monroe Springfield, IL 62756

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LLINOIS REGISTER

POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF PROPOSED AMENDMENTS

1)

Heading of the Part: Water Quality Standards

2)

Code Citation:

35

Ill. Adm. Code 302

3)

Section Numbers:

Proposed Action:

302.202

Amend

302.307

Add

302.525

Amend

4)

Date Notice ofProposed AmendmentsPublished in the Illinois Register: Aug. 6,

2004 at 28 III. Reg. 10887 (Board Docket R04-21)

5)

Reason for the Withdrawal:

In summary, the Board is withdrawing the August 6, 2004 first notice in order to

avoid any confusion. The Board intends to cause publication ofa different

numerical standard, based on public comments.

The first notice proposal published August 6, 2004 is identical to the proposal

•filed with the Board by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency),

and docketed by the Board as R04-2 1. The Agency proposed to have the Board

change the general use and Lake Michigan water quality standards forradium

from 1 picocurie per liter (pCi/L) radium 226 to

5

pCi/L combined radium 226

and 228 and apply the proposed standards specifically to surface waters used for

public and food processing water supplies.

After considering testimony from

5

days ofpublic hearings and the 38 comments

received after the August 6, 2004 first-notice publication, the Board found that the

record demonstrated a need to maintain a general use water quality standard,

protective both ofhuman health and riparian mammals in the environment.

However, compliance must also be reasonable for Northern Illinois publicly

owned treatment works located in areas where naturally occurring radium is

prevalent in source water.

So, on April 7, 2005 the Board proposed its own revised general use water quality

standard forradium. Because ofthe extent ofthe changes to the first-notice

proposal, the Board finds it appropriate to publish its own April 7, 2005 proposal

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for a second first-notice in this docket. To avoid any confusion, the Board

withdraws the August 6, 2004 proposal.

The Board expects that first notice ofthe Board proposal will be published in the

Illinois Register

soon. In summary, the Board will propose a general use water

quality standard of 3.75 pCi/L combined radium 226 and 228 to replace the

existing radium 226 standard of pCi/L. If adopted, this new standard would

apply to all general use waters ofthe State as well as the Lake Michigan Basin.

The Board proposal would apply a combined radium standard of30 pCi/L to

stream segments that receive discharge from POTWs receiving wastewater

discharge from public drinking water supplies using groundwater with a high

radium concentration. The 30 pCi/L combined radium 226 and 228 standard

would apply from the point of discharge to one mile downstream ofthe discharge

outfall.

Questions regarding this matter may be referred to Amy Antoniolli at 312/814-3665