- Board to Hold Additional Hearings on Proposal to Amend Water Quality Standards
for the Chicago Area Waterway System
The Illinois Pollution Control Board, on March 18, 2010, granted several motions in the
rulemaking docketed as In the Matter of: Water Quality Standards and Effluent
Limitations for the Chicago Area Waterway System and Lower Des Plaines River
Proposed Amendments to 35 Ill.
- Subdocket C will be created to address the issues involving proposed aquatic life uses.
- The Board also agreed to hold hearings concerning aquatic life use
designations as requested by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater
Chicago.
- In Part 303, the IEPA proposes three distinct
recre...