BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
IN THE MATTER OF:
)
1
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
1
R2004-025
DISSOLVED OXYGEN STANDARD
)
Rulemaking
-
Public Water
35 ILL
ADM. CODE 302.206
)
MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE PRE-FILED OUESTIONS
The Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest ("ELPC"), Prairie
Rivers Network
("PRN) and the Sierra Club hereby move for leave to file the attached
pre-filed questions to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency ("IEPA") and the
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
("IDNR). In support of this motion, movants
state:
1. Answers to pre-filed questions are essential to understanding the position of
the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Illinois Department of
Natural Resources and the practical effect of their proposal.
2. The questions are somewhat complex and better considered responses may be
obtained through pre-filed questions
3. Movants believe that the use of pre-filed questions will expedite the hearing of
this matter.
Wherefore, movants move for leave to file the attached pre-filed questions to the
IEPAIIDNR.
Respectfully submitted,
Albert F.
~ttih~er
(R$ No.
3 125045)
Counsel for Environmental Law
&
Policy Center, Prairie Rivers
Network and Sierra Club
DATED: October 24,2006
ELECTRONIC FILING, RECEIVED, CLERK'S OFFICE, OCTOBER 24, 2006
BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
IN
THE MATTER OF:
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
R2004-025
DISSOLVED OXYGEN STANDARD
)
Rulemaking
-
Public Water
35 ILL ADM. CODE 302.206
NOTICE OF FILING
TO: See Attached Service List
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Environmental Law and Policy Center of the
Midwest ("ELPC"), Prairie Rivers Network and the Sierra Club today have electronically
filed the motion for leave to file Pre-Filed Questions to Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency ("IEPA" and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources
("IDNR).
Respectfully submitted,
Albert F. Ettinger (Reg. No.
3125045)
Counsel for Environmental Law
&
Policy Center, Prairie Rivers
Network and Sierra Club
DATED: October 24,2006
ELECTRONIC FILING, RECEIVED, CLERK'S OFFICE, OCTOBER 24, 2006
Service List
R2004-025
Fred L Hubbard
16 West Madison
P.O. Box 12
Danville, IL 61 834-0012
Bernard Sawyer
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6001 W. Pershing Rd.
Cicero, IL 60650-41
12
Claire A. Manning
Posegate
&
Denes, P.C.
1 1 1 N Sixth Street
Springfield, IL 62705
Deborah J. Williams
Stefanie N. Diers, Assistant Counsel
Illinois EPA
1021 North Grand Ave.
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
Dorothy M.
Gunn
Illinois Pollution Control Board
100
W. Randolph Street Suite 1 1-500
Chicago, IL 60601
Frederick D. Keady
Verrnillion Coal
1979 Johns Drive
Glenview, IL 60028
James T.
Harrington
Ross
&
Hardies
150 N. Michigan Ave. Suite 2500
Chicago, IL 60601 -7567
John
Donahue
City of Geneva
22 South First Street
Geneva, IL 60134-2203
Alex Messina
Illinois Environmental Regulatory Group
3 1 50 Roland Ave.
Springfield, IL 62703
Charles W. Wesselhoft
Ross
&
Hardies
150 N. Michigan Ave Suite 2500
Chicago, IL 60601 -7567
Erika K. Powers
Barnes
&
Thornburg
1 N. Wacker Dr. Suite 4400
Chicago, IL 60606
Dennis L. Duffield
City of Joliet
Department of Public Works and Utilities
921 E. Washington St.
Joliet, IL 6043 1
Stanley Yonkauski
Illinos Department of Natural Resources
One Natural Resources Way
Springfield, IL 62702-1271
James L. Daugherty
Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary Dist.
700 West End Ave
Chicago Heights, IL 6041 1
Joel J. Sternstein
Office of the Attorney General
1 88 W. Randolph St.
2oth Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
Connie L.
Tonsor
Illinois EPA
1 02 1
N. Grand Ave
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-92
ELECTRONIC FILING, RECEIVED, CLERK'S OFFICE, OCTOBER 24, 2006
Service List
R2004-025
Katherine D. Hodge
Hodge Dwyer Zeman
3 150 Roland Ave.
P.O. Box 5776
Springfield, IL 62705-5776
Lisa Frede
Chemical Industrial Council of Illinois
2250 E. Devon Ave- Suite 239
Des Plaines, IL 6001 8-4509
Matthew J.
Dunn
Office of the Attorney General
1 88 W. Randolph
2oth Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
Mike
Callahan
Bloomington Normal Water Reclamation Dist.
P.O. Box 3307
Bloomington, IL 61702-3307
Richard
McGill
Illinois Pollution Control Board
100 W. Randolph St. Suite 1 1-500
Chicago, IL 60601
Stephanie N. Diers
IEPA
1021 N. Grand Ave E.
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
Susan M.
Franzetti
10 S. LaSalle St. Suite 3600
Chicago, IL 60603
Vicky McKinley
Evanston Environmental Board
233 Grey Ave.
Evanston, IL 60202
Edward Hammer
U.S. EPA
WQ-16J
77 W. Jackson Blvd
Chicago, IL 60604
Sue Schultz
Illinois American Water Company
300 N. Water Works Dr.
P.O. Box 24040
Belleville, I1 62223-9040
Michael G. Rosenberg Esq.
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
100 E Erie St.
Chicago, IL 6061 1
Larry Cox
Downers Grove Sanitary Dist.
2701
Curtiss St.
Downers Grove, IL 605 15
Richard Lanyon
Metropolitan Reclamation Dist.
100 E. Erie St.
Chicago, I1 6061 1
Sanj ay K. So fat
Illinois EPA
102 1 N. Grand Ave East
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
Tm Muth
Fox Metro Water Reclamation District
682 State Route 3 1
Oswego, IL 60543
Margaret P. Howard
2601 S. Fifth Street
Springfield, IL 62703
W.C. Blanton
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP
2300 Main Street Suite
1000
Kansas City, MO 640 1 8
Roy M. Harsch
Gardner Carton
&
Douglas LLP
191 Wacker Dr. Suite 3700
Chicago, IL 60606
ELECTRONIC FILING, RECEIVED, CLERK'S OFFICE, OCTOBER 24, 2006
Service List
R2004-025
Todd Main
Director of Policy and Planning
Friends of the Chicago River
407 S. Dearborn- Suite 1580
Chicago, I1 60605
N. LaDonner Driver
Illinois Environmental Regulatory Group
3 1 50 Roland Ave
Springfield, IL 62703
Marc Miller, Senior Policy Advisor
Michael
J. Fischer, Policy Advisor
Office of Lt. Governor Pat Quinn
Room 214 State House
Springfield, IL 62706
Irwin Polls
Ecological Monitoring Assessment
3206 Maple Leaf Drive
Glenview, IL 60025
Tracy Elzemeyer
General Counsel
Ameircan Water Company
727 Craig Road
St. Louis MO 63 141
Dr. Thomas
J. Murphy
2325
N. Clifton St.
Chicago, IL 60614
ELECTRONIC FILING, RECEIVED, CLERK'S OFFICE, OCTOBER 24, 2006
BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
IN THE MATTER OF:
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
1
R2004-025
DISSOLVED OXYGEN STANDARD
1
Rulemaking
-
Public Water
35 ILL ADM. CODE 302.206
)
PRE-FILED QUESTIONS TO IEPAJIDNR
The Environmental Law
&
Policy Center of the Midwest ("ELPC"), Prairie Rivers
Network and Sierra Club hereby pose the following questions regarding Attachment A to the
IEPAIIDNR filing of March 3 1,2006 to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency ("IEPA")
and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources ("IDNR):
1. Regarding the proposed definition of thermocline in proposed 302.100:
a. What waters have thermoclines?
b. For any water that has any rate of decrease of temperature with respect to depth, is
there not by definition a plane of maximum rate of decrease?
c. How, as a practical matter, is it expected that the thermocline will be determined?
Will temperature measurements be taken? Are there models or formulas that will be
used in locating the thermocline?
2. Regarding proposed
302.206(a):
a. What is "quiescent" water?
b. What is an isolated sector?
c. What tests or criteria is it expected will be used to determine if a water is "quiescent"
or "isolated"
d. What waters are "wetlands" under the proposed rule?
e. What waters are "sloughs" under the proposed rule?
f. What waters are "backwaters" as that term is used in the proposed rule?
g. What waters are "lakes and reservoirs" under the proposed rule
h. Does IEPA or IDNR have a list of the "reservoirs" or "lakes" that are covered by this
provision of the proposed rule?
i. What standard applies to lakes or reservoirs that are not thermally stratified?
j. What are the "natural ecological functions" of lakes and reservoirs below a
thermocline?
ELECTRONIC FILING, RECEIVED, CLERK'S OFFICE, OCTOBER 24, 2006
k. What resident ecological communities are natural below a thermocline in a lake or
reservoir?
1. Are "offensive conditions" a violation of water quality standards under the proposed
rule if they occur in "wetlands, sloughs, backwaters or lakes and reservoirs below the
thermocline" or is it intended to modify the application of Section 302.203 as to such
water bodies?
3. Regarding
302.206(d)(3):
a. Is it anticipated that under this rule that no judgment will be made that a water
body is attaining dissolved oxygen ("DO") standards unless data has been
collected sufficient to determine the daily minima?
b. How will compliance with the proposed standard be determined? With regard to
specific discharges? With regard to general assessments?
c. Under this rule, will IEPA require pre-dawn DO monitoring of waters as a
condition for obtaining a permit to discharge Biological oxygen demanding
pollutants?
d. Under this rules, will IEPA require pre-dawn DO monitoring of waters as a
condition for obtaining a permit to discharge nutrients?
4. How do IEPA and
IDNR use the DO standard now in their programs?
5. Does IEPA intend to use the DO standard in writing NPDES permit limits?
Respectfully submitted,
Albert
F. Ettinger (Reg. No. 3 125045)
Counsel for Environmental Law
&
Policy
Center, Prairie Rivers Network and Sierra
Club
DATED: October
24,2006.
ELECTRONIC FILING, RECEIVED, CLERK'S OFFICE, OCTOBER 24, 2006