Ill. Admin. Code tit. 35, § 304.141 Npdes Effluent Standards

• Library: Illinois Administrative Code
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 52, December 29, 2023
• Citation: Ill. Admin. Code tit. 35, § 304.141
• Year: 2023

a) A person that has been issued an NPDES Permit must not discharge any contaminant in its effluent in excess of the standards and limitations for that contaminant in its permit.

b) A person must not discharge any pollutant subject to, or that contributes to or threatens to cause a violation of, any applicable federal or State water quality standard, effluent standard, guideline, or other limitation, promulgated under the CWA or the Act, unless a limitation for the pollutant is in an applicable NPDES Permit. However, the Agency may, by permit condition, provide that the permittee may discharge pollutants present in its water supply intake sources in concentrations not greater than the concentrations in the intake sources, or which are added in trace amounts by normal domestic water usage.

BOARD NOTE: Section undefinedundefined304.141(b) was declared invalid in Peabody Coal Co. v. PCB, 3 Ill. App. 3d 5 (5th District, 1976) and declared valid in U.S Steel v. PCB, 52 Ill. App. 3d 1 (2d District, 1977).

c) The standards of this Chapter apply to thermal discharges unless, after...