EGEVED
CLERKS
OFFCE
ILLiNOIS POLLUTION
CONTROL
BOARD
February 19, 2009
STATE
OF
ILLINOiS
PoILutO
Control
Board
IN THE
MATTER
OF:
)
)
PROPOSED
SITE SPECIFIC
RULE FOR
)
R09-1 1
CITY OF
GALVA SITE
SPECIFIC WATER
)
(Site-Specific
Rulemaking
-
Water)
QUALITY
STANDARD
FOR BORON
)
DISCHARGES
TO EDWARDS
RIVER
AND)
MUD CREEK:
)
35 ILL.
ADM. CODE 303.347
)
NOTICE OF
HEARING
DATES,
TIMES, AND PLACES:
MARCH
31, 2009
11:00
a.m.
Council Chambers
City
Administration
Building
210
Front
Street
Galva,
IL
61434
PURPOSE OF HEARINGS:
Merit
and
Economic
ATTENDING
BOARD
MEMBERS:
G.
Tanner
Girard
HEARING OFFICER:
Marie E.
Tipsord
HEARING
OFFICER
ORDER
On February 5,
2009, the Board accepted
for
hearing
a site-specific rulemaking
filed
on
October 17,
2008,
by
the
City of Galva
(Galva). The proposal
seeks to establish
an alternative
water
quality standard
for
boron that would
apply
to certain
segments
of an unnamed
tributary
to
the
South
Branch of the
Edwards River,
the South Branch
of
the
Edwards
River, and the
Mud
Creek
Run.
Today’s order
sets
the
dates
for the hearing and
the prefiling deadlines.
Galva must
prefile testimony
for the March
31,
2009
hearing by
March
17, 2009. All
testimony
will
be
taken as if read
arid we will proceed
with
questions
immediately.
This hearing
will
also fulfill
the statutory
obligations
under Section
27(b)
of
the
Environmental Protection
Act (Act)
(415 ILCS 5/27(b)
(2006)).
Section
27(b)
of the Act
requires
the
Board
to request
the Department
of
Commerce and Economic
Opportunity
to
2
conduct
an economic
impact study
on certain
proposed
rules
prior to adoption
of those
rules.
If
DCEO chooses
to conduct
the economic impact
study, DCEO
has
30 to 45
days after such
request to
produce a study of the
economic
impact
of the
proposed rules.
The Board must
then
make the economic
impact
study,
or DCEO’s
explanation
for not conducting
the study,
available
to
the public
at least 20
days before
a public hearing
on
the
economic
impact
of the
proposed
rules.
The
Board sent to
DCEO the
request on February
19, 2009,
and asked that a response
be
tendered
by March
6,
2009.
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.
par1e E. Tipsor
Hearing
Officer
Illinois Pollution
Control
Board
100 West
Randolph,
Suite 11-500
Chicago, Illinois
60601
(312) 814-4925
tipsorni@ipcb.state.il.us
In compi dcc iIh the Americans
with
Dsabih1ics
Ad and other appheahle lederal
and Stale laws,
the hearing
will
he
accessible
to individuals
wjth
disabilities. Persons
requiring
auxiliary
diGs and
services
should contact John Then’iault.
Assistant Clerk
01
the Board. at IOU
West
Randolph
Sr. Suite 1 1 —500. Chicago,
Illinois 60601
.at
telephone number
3
12/81—1—693
1 fax number
312/81
4—3669.
or 1111)
number
3 2/814—
6032. five
days
prior to the
hearing.