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Proposal Concerning the Control of Mercury Emissions from Coal-fired
Electric Generating Units
The Illinois Pollution Control Board is a five-member panel that is empowered to
adopt environmental rules for Illinois.
- The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, on March 14, 2006, filed proposed
rules requiring Illinois coal-fired electrical generating units (EGUs) to reduce
mercury emissions by an average of 90 percent by July 2009.
- In a rulemaking of statewide applicability, the Board conducts at least two public
hearings.
- Questions based on that prefiled testimony must be prefiled by
July 31, 2006.