ILLINOIS ENDANGERED
    SPECIES
    PROTECTION
    BOARD
    One Natural Resources
    Way, Springfield,
    Illinois 62702-1271,
    (217)
    785-8687;
    FAX (217) 785-2438
    November
    26, 2008
    tECEVED
    CLERK’S
    OFFCE
    John
    Therriault, Assistant
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution
    Control Board
    STATE
    OF
    ILUNOIS
    100
    West
    Randolph Street, Suite
    11-500
    Pollution
    Control
    Board
    Chicago,
    IL 60601
    RE:
    Rule Making
    R08-09
    Dear
    Illinois
    Pollution
    Control Board:
    On
    behalf of the
    flhinois Endangered
    Species Protection
    Board, I submit
    the attached
    resolution
    supporting
    the
    Illinois Environmental
    Protection
    Agency’s proposal before
    the Illinois
    Pollution
    Control
    Board to upgrade water
    quality standards
    for the lower Des
    Plaines
    River
    and Chicago
    Area Waterways
    System
    in
    rulemaking R08-09.
    Sincerely,
    Anne Mankowski
    Director
    Resolution
    Illinois
    Endangered
    Species
    Protection
    Board
    November
    14, 2008
    Whereas
    the
    IESPB
    is concerned
    with
    habitat
    quality
    of
    threatened
    and
    endangered
    fish
    species in
    the State
    and has a
    mandate
    to advise
    the State
    on
    protection
    of
    threatened
    and endangered
    species; and,
    Whereas
    the
    River
    Redhorse
    (Moxostoma
    carinatum,
    state
    threatened),
    Pallid
    Shiner
    (Notropis
    amnis, state
    endangered),
    and
    Blacknose
    Shiner
    (Notropis
    chalybeus,
    state
    endangered)
    have
    been
    reported
    from
    lower
    Des
    Plaines
    River;
    and,
    Whereas
    the Illinois
    Environmental
    Protection
    Agency
    has proposed
    before
    the
    Illinois Pollution
    Control
    Board
    (case
    number R08-9)
    to
    upgrade the
    water
    quality
    standards
    for the
    lower
    Des
    Plaines
    River and
    Chicago area
    waterways;
    Now
    therefore,
    The
    Illinois
    Endangered
    Species
    Protection
    Board
    resolves
    to
    support
    the
    upgrade
    of water
    quality
    standards
    which
    would
    benefit
    these
    species
    of this
    area.
    Passed and
    approved
    by the
    Illinois
    Endangered
    Species
    Protection
    Board
    this
    Fourteenth
    day
    of November,
    Two
    Thousand
    and
    Eight.
    R. Dan Gooch
    Chairman
    Illinois
    Endangered
    Species
    Protection
    Board
    Dr.
    Christopher
    Phillips
    Secretary
    Illinois
    Endangered
    Species
    Protection
    Board

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