1. BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
      2. NOTICE OF FILING
      3. SERVICE LIST R08-9
      4. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
IN THE MATTER OF:
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS AND
EFFLUENT LIMITA
nONS FOR THE
CHICAGO AREA WATERWAY SYSTEM
AND THE LOWER DES PLAINES RIVER:
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO 35 III.
Adm. Code Parts 301, 302, 303 and 304 ,
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R08-9
(Rulemaking - Water)
NOTICE OF FILING
TO:
See Attached Service List
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 25th day
of August, 2008, I filed with the
Office of the Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board the attached Prefiled Questions
of the People of the State of Illinois to John Mastracchio, a copy of which is hereby
served upon you.
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Respectfully submitted,
LISA MADIGAN,
Attorney General
of the
State
of Illinois
By:
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Susan Hedman
Environmental Counsel
(312) 814-4947
Andrew Armstrong
Assistant Attorney General
(312) 814-0660
Environmental Division
69 West Washington Street, Suite 1800
Chicago, Illinois 60602
(312) 814-4947
Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 25, 2008

Mr. John T. Therriault
Assistant Clerk
of the Board
Illinois Pollution Control Board
100 West Randolph Street
Suite 11-500
Chicago, Illinois 60601
[by
electronic mail]
Ms. Marie E. Tipsord
Hearing Officer
Illinois Pollution Control Board
100 West Randolph Street
Suite 11-500
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Deborah
J. Williams, Esq.
Stefanie N. Diers, Esq.
Illinois EPA
1021 North Grand Avenue East
Post Office Box 19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
Frederick
M. Feldman, Esq.
Ronald M. Hill, Esq.
Mr. Louis Kollias
Margaret
T. Conway
Metropolitan Water
Reclamation District
100 East Erie Street
Chicago, Illinois 6061 1
Richard 1. Kissel, Esq.
Roy
M. Harsch, Esq.
Drinker, Biddle, Gardner, Carton
191 North Wacker Drive
Suite 3700
Chicago, Illinois 60606-1698
Claire
A. Manning, Esq.
Brown, Hay
&
Stephens, LLP
700 First Mercantile Bank Building
205 South Fifth Street
Post Office Box 2459
Springfield, Illinois 62705-2459
SERVICE LIST R08-9
Kevin
G. Desharnais, Esq.
Thomas
W. Dimond, Esq.
Thomas
V. Skinner, Esq.
Mayer, Brown LLP
71 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60606-4637
Charles
W. Wesselhoft, Esq.
James
T. Harrington, Esq.
Ross
&
Hardies
150 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 2500
Chicago, Illinois 60601-7567
Mr. Robert VanGyseghem
City
of Geneva
1800 South Street
Geneva, Illinois 60134-2203
Jerry Paulsen, Esq.
Cindy Skrukrud, Esq.
McHenry County Defenders
132 Cass Street
Woodstock, Illinois 60098
Mr. Bernard Sawyer
Mr. Thomas Granto
Metropolitan Water
Reclamation District
6001 West Pershing Road
Cicero, Illinois 60650
Ms. Lisa Frede
Chemical Industry Council of Illinois
2250 East Devon Avenue
Suite 239
Des Plaines, Illinois 60018-4509
Fredric
P. Andes, Esq.
Erika
K. Powers, Esq.
Barnes
&
Thornburg LLP'
1 North Wacker Drive
Suite 4400
Chicago, Illinois 60606
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Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 25, 2008

Mr. James L. Daugherty
Thorn Creek Basin Sanitary District
700 West End Avenue
Chicago Heights, Illinois 60411
Ms. Sharon Neal
Commonwealth Edison Company
125 South Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Tracy Elzemeyer, Esq.
American Water Company
727 Craig Road
St. Louis, Missouri 63141
Margaret P. Howard, Esq.
Hedinger Law Office
2601 South Fifth Street
Springfield, Illinois 62703
Mr. Keith
I. Harley
Ms. Elizabeth Schenkier
Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc.
205 West Monroe Street
Fourth Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60606
Frederick D. Keady, P.E.
Vermillion Coal Company
1979 Johns Drive
Glenview, Illinois 60025
Mr. Fred
L. Hubbard
16 West Madison
Post Office Box
12
Danville, Illinois 61834
Ms. Georgia Vlahos
Naval Training Center
2601A Paul Jones Street
Great Lakes, Illinois 60088-2845
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W.C. Blanton, Esq.
Blackwell Sanders LLP
4801 Main Street
Suite 1000
Kansas City, Missouri 64112
Mr. Dennis
L. Duffield
City
of Joliet, Department of Public
Work and Utilities
921 East Washington Street
Joliet, Illinois 60431
Ms. Kay Anderson
American Bottoms RWTF
One American Bottoms Road
Sauget, Illinois 62201
Mr. Jack Darin
Sierra Club
.
70 East Lake Street
Suite 1500
Chicago, Illinois 60601-7447
Mr. Bob Carter
Bloomington Normal Water
Reclamation District
Post Office Box 3307
Bloomington, Illinois 61702-3307
Mr. Tom Muth
Fox Metro Water Reclamation District
682 State Route
31
Oswego, Illinois 60543
Mr. Kenneth W. Liss
Andrews Environmental Engineering
3300 Ginger Creek Drive
Springfield, Illinois 62711
Albert Ettinger, Esq.
Jessica Dexter, Esq.
Environmental Law
&
Policy Center
35 East Wacker
Suite 1300
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 25, 2008

Ms. Vicky McKinley
Evanston Environment Board
223 Grey Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60202
Mr. Marc Miller
Mr. Jamie
S. Casten
Office of Lt. Governor Pat Quinn
Room 414 State House
Springfield, Illinois 62706
Susan M. Franzetti, Esq.
Franzetti Law Firm P.C.
10 South LaSalle Street
Suite 3600
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Mr. Irwin Polls
Ecological Monitoring and Assessment
3206 Maple Leaf Drive
Glenview, Illinois 60025
Dr. Thomas
J. Murphy
2325 North Clifton Street
Chicago, Illinois 60614
Ms. Cathy Hudzik
City
of Chicago-Mayor's Office
of Intergovernmental Affairs
121 North LaSalle Street
City Hall - Room 406
Chicago, Illinois 60602
Ms. Beth Steinhour
2021 Timberbrook
Springfield, Illinois 62702
Mr. James
Huff
Huff
&
Huff, Inc.
915 Harger Road
Suite 330
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
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Ann Alexander, Esq.
Natural Resources Defense Council
101 North Wacker Drive
Suite 609
Chicago, Illinois 60606
Ms. Traci Barkley
Prairie Rivers Network
1902 Fox Drive
Suite 6
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Jeffrey
C. Fort, Esq.
Ariel
J. Tesher, Esq.
Sonnenschein Nath
&
Rosenthal
7800 Sears Tower
233 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60606-6404
Kristy
A.
N. Bulleit, Esq.
Brent Fewell, Esq.
Hunton
&
Williams LLC
1900 K Street,
NW
Washington, DC 20006
Lyman
C. Welch
Manager, Water Quality Programs
Alliance for the Great Lakes
17 North State Street
Suite 1390
Chicago, Illinois 60602
Stacy Meyers-Glen
Openlands
25 East Washington Street
Suite 1650
Chicago, Illinois 60602
Katherine
D. Hodge
Thomas
G. Safley
Monica
T. Rios'
Hodge Dwyer Zeman
3150 Roland Avenue
Post Office Box 5776
Springfield, Illinois 62705-5776
Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 25, 2008

BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
IN THE MATTER OF:
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS AND
EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS FOR THE
CHICAGO AREA WATERWAY SYSTEM
AND THE LOWER DES PLAINES RIVER:
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
35 III.
Adm. Code Parts 301, 302, 303 and 304
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R08-9
(Rulemaking - Water)
PREFILED QUESTIONS OF
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS TO JOHN MASTRACCHIO
The People of the State of Illinois hereby files questions to John Mastracchio:
1.
Please define the term "economic impacts" as used on page 1 of your "disinfection"
testimony.
2.
In Attachment 2 to your "disinfection" testimony you provide a summary of MWRD's'
revenues from property taxes for the years 2002 - 2006.
a.
For each of those years, what was the tax rate that appeared in the MWRD line on
property tax bills?
b.
Has the MWRD tax rate changed during the past 20 years?
c.
Is the 2006 tax rate higher or lower than the tax rate a decade earlier? What is the
percentage difference?
d.
Have assessed values for real estate in the MWRD service territory changed
during the past 20 years?
e.
Were assessed values in 2006 higher or lower than in 1996? What is the
percentage difference?
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Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 25, 2008

3.
In Attachment 2 to your "disinfection" testimony you provide a summary ofMWRD's
revenues from user charges for the years 2002 - 2006.
a.
What are the current rates for MWRD's user charges?
b.
Have MWRD user charges changed during the past 20 years?
LISA MADIGAN,
Attorney General
of the
State of Illinois
By:
Susan Hedman
Environmental Counsel
(312) 814-4947
Andrew Armstrong
Assistant Attorney General
(312) 814-0660
Environmental Division
69 West Washington Street, Suite 1800
Chicago, Illinois 60602
(312) 814-4947
DATE: August 25, 2008
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Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 25, 2008

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, SUSAN HEDMAN, do certify that I filed electronically with the Office of the Clerk of
the Illinois Pollution Control Board the foregoing Notice of Filing and Prefiled Questions of the
People
of the State of Illinois to John Mastracchio and caused them to be served this 25th day of
August, 2008 upon the persons listed on the attached Service
~ist
by depositing true and correct
copies of same in an envelope, first class postage prepaid, with the United States Postal Service
at 69 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois, unless otherwise noted on the Service List.
SUSAN HEDMAN
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Electronic Filing - Received, Clerk's Office, August 25, 2008

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