RECEVEO

CLERK’S

OFFICE

ILLINOIS

POLLUTION

CONTROL BOARD

NOV

06

2008

November

6, 2008

STATE

OF ILUNOS

IN

THE

MATTER

OF:

)

Poflutlon

Control

Board

)

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

)

I

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I

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I

1’

1

SPRINGFIELD

METRO SANITARY

)

‘1

Li

I

V

DISTRICT

FROM

35 ILL. ADM.

CODE

)

302.208(g):

NEW

35 ILL. ADM.

CODE

)

303.446

)

NOTICE

OF HEARING

DATES,

TIMES,

ANT)

PLACES:

Decemberj

2008

10:00 a.m.

Pollution

Control

Board

Conference

Room,

First

Floor

1021

N. Grand

Avenue

East, North Entrance

Springfield,

IL

PURPOSE OF HEARINGS:

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,

Office

of Public Utilities,

City

Water, Light

and

Power and

Springfield

Metro Sanitary

District, (collectively,

Springfield).

The proposal

seeks

to

establish

an alternative

water

quality standard

for

boron

from

the

discharge

point

at the String.

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.

On

November 3,

2008,

the Board

held

the first

hearing

in this proceeding.

During

that

hearing several

requests

were made

of both the

Springfield and

the Illinois

Environmental

Protection

Agency

(Agency) for

additional

information.

The information

requested is to be

filed

with the Board

by November 21, 2008.

If afier

reviewing that

material

there

are additional

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