CLERp’S
    OFFICE
    ILLINOIS
    POLLUTION
    CONTROL
    BOARD
    September
    19,
    2008
    SEP
    192008
    IN
    THE MATTER
    OF:
    )
    PROPOSED
    SITE
    SPECIFIC
    RULE
    FOR
    )
    R09-8
    CITY OF
    SPRINGFIELD,
    ILLINOIS,
    )
    (Site-Specific
    Rulemaking
    - Water)
    OFFICE
    OF
    PUBLIC
    UTILITIES,
    CITY
    )
    WATER,
    LIGHT
    and
    POWER
    and
    )
    SPRINGFIELD
    METRO
    SANITARY
    )
    DISTRICT
    FROM 35
    ILL.
    ADM.
    CODE
    )
    302.208(g):
    NEW
    35
    ILL. ADM.
    CODE
    )
    303.446
    )
    NOTICE
    OF
    HEARING
    DATES,
    TIMES,
    AND PLACES:
    NOVEMBER
    3,
    2008
    10:00
    a.m.
    Pollution Control
    Board
    Conference
    Room,
    First
    Floor
    1021
    N.
    Grand
    Avenue
    East,
    North
    Entrance
    Springfield,
    IL
    PURPOSE
    OF
    HEARINGS:
    Merit
    and Economic
    ATTENDING
    BOARD MEMBERS:
    G.
    Tanner
    Girard
    HEARING
    OFFICER:
    Marie
    E. Tipsord
    HEARING
    OFFICER
    ORDER
    On
    September
    16, 2008,
    the
    Board accepted
    for hearing
    a
    site-specific
    rulemaking
    filed
    on August
    29, 2008,
    by
    the
    City of Springfield
    (City),
    Office
    of Public
    Utilities,
    City
    Water,
    Light
    and
    Power (CWLP)
    and
    Springfield
    Metro
    Sanitary
    District (District),
    (collectively,
    Springfield).
    The
    proposal
    seeks to establish
    an
    alternative
    water
    quality standard
    for
    boron
    from
    the
    discharge
    point at the
    Spring
    Creek
    Sanitary
    Treatment
    Plant (Spring
    Creek
    STP)
    to
    the
    Sangamon
    River
    to its confluence
    with
    the
    Illinois
    River
    and 100
    yards
    downstream
    from the
    confluence
    in the
    Illinois
    River. The
    Board granted
    a
    motion to
    expedite the
    rulemaking
    consistent
    with
    the
    Board’s
    available
    resources
    and directed
    that
    a hearing
    be set expeditiously.
    Today’s
    order
    sets
    the dates
    for the hearing
    and
    the prefihing
    deadlines.
    Springfield
    must
    prefile
    testimony
    for the November
    3, 2008
    hearing
    by
    October
    20,
    2008.
    All
    testimony
    will
    be
    taken
    as if read
    and
    we
    will
    proceed
    with
    questions
    immediately.
    2
    All
    filings
    in
    this
    proceeding
    will
    be available
    on
    the Board’s
    web
    page at
    www.ipcb.state.il.us
    and
    participants
    may
    file
    electronically
    on
    the
    Board’s
    web
    page.
    The
    prefiled
    testimony
    must
    be
    served
    on
    the persons
    on
    the service
    list.
    IT IS
    SO
    ORDERED.
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    Hearing
    Officer
    Illinois
    Pollution
    Control
    Board
    100 West
    Randolph,
    Suite 11-500
    Chicago,
    Illinois
    60601
    (312)
    814-4925
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