IN THE MATTER OF: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO DISSOLVED OXYGEN STANDARD 35 ILL. ADM. CODE 302.206
The Board accepted for hearing the April 19, 2004 proposal of the Illinois Association of Wastewater Agencies to amend the Board’s water pollution control regulations. The Board also granted petitioner’s motion to waive the 200 signature requirement.
May 6, 2004IN THE MATTER OF: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO DISSOLVED OXYGEN STANDARD 35 ILL.
IAWA PROPOSAL
IAWA notes that dissolved oxygen is a “critical resource in freshwater systems” and is “essential to aquatic organisms for aerobic respiration and thus most biological activity and associated processes.” Proposal at 3.
IAWA claims that its recent study of scientific literature found the Board’s existing dissolved oxygen standards for general use waters “overly restrictive.” Id.
6, 1972).
IAWA proposes to amend these standards by explicitly providing that dissolved oxygen be determined on a monthly basis and specifying that (a) during...
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