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John Therriault, Deputy Clerk
Illinois Pollution Control Board
James R Thompson Center
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100 W
. Randolph St., Ste. 11-500
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Re
: PCB 06-171 Third Party NPDES Permit Appeal- American Bottom Conservancy v
. IEPA and US
Steel-Granite City Works
Dear Mr. Therriault
It appears that the fax of Sierra Club comments on this permit appeal which I sent on December 18, 2006
did not go through
. I have attached the 2-page comment letter as well as the fax report from that day
.
These comments were to reinforce that the testimony given by Jason Warner at the November 20, 2006
hearing in Edwardsville were made on behalf of the Illinois Chapter of the Sierra Club
.
You can reach me at 815-675-2594,
cindy, skrukrud(<sierraclub
.org or via mail to : 4209 W Solon Rd,
Richmond, IL 60071 .
Sincerely,
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Re
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V .
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Dear Ms. Guan
:
The Sierra Club is a not-for-profit organization with over 25,000 members in the State of Illinois
. Sierra
Club members are very concerned about water quality and believe, as Congress believed when it passed
the Clean Water Act, that discharges of pollutants should be minimized to the extent possible and
eventually eliminated.
We urge the Illinois Pollution Control Board to assure that members of the public be able to fully
participate in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit process
. Opportunity for active
public participation in the process is required by the Clean Water Act and is necessary for the system to
work properly .
The Board should require that the Agency hold a hearing whenever organizations with numerous
members that maybe affected by a discharge request one
. The time frame now allowed for public
comment is not long and requests for time extensions are often denied
. The decision to request a public
hearing almost always must be made with very limited information being available to the public
. It cannot
reasonably be expected that comment letters and requests for public hearing will articulate all the issues
potentially raised by the permit or will articulate problems perfectly
.
Further, it is not good policy to force people who have only received the initial public notice to generate
large numbers of objection letters and requests for a hearing if a hearing is to be held
. By doing this, the
Agency is practically ordering people who care about the environment to send out mass alerts and go to
the press without their having had a real opportunity to determine the extent to which the proposed action
will affect human health or other parts of the environment .
There maybe dischargers and agency officials who think that forcing environmental groups and
neighborhood organizations to react quickly with little information saves time and resources
. In a few
cases it will be possible this way to push through a permit that might otherwise have required more
debate
. However, the people who want to push through permits without giving people a realistic chance to
learn about them may learn that the results of forcing people to act in a few days on the basis of very
limited information are not good in the long run_ If the Board and the Agency wish to serve the interests
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offered by the diccharger and the Agency are not satisfactory .
You can reach me at 815-675-2594, uindy .sknkrud(aisierraclub.or
g or via mail to: 4209 W Solon HE,
Richmond, II
. 60071 .
Sincerely,
Cynthia L Sknikrud, Ph.D.
Clean Water Advocate
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