TITLE 35: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SUBTITLE C: WATER POLLUTION CHAPTER I: POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD PART 309 PERMITS The General Assembly's Illinois Administrative Code database includes only those rulemakings that have been permanently adopted. This menu will point out the Sections on which an emergency rule (valid for a maximum of 150 days, usually until replaced by a permanent rulemaking) exists. The emergency rulemaking is linked through the notation that follows the Section heading in the menu. View Entire Part SUBPART A: NPDES PERMITS Section 309.101 Preamble Section 309.102 NPDES Permit Required Section 309.103 Application – General Section 309.104 Renewal Section 309.105 Authority to Deny NPDES Permits Section 309.106 Access to Facilities and Further Information Section 309.107 Distribution of Applications Section 309.108 Tentative Determination and Draft Permit Section 309.109 Public Notice Section 309.110 Contents of Public Notice of Application Section 309.111 Combined Notices Section 309.112 Agency Action After Comment Period Section 309.113 Fact Sheets Section 309.114 Notice to Other Governmental Agencies Section 309.115 Public Hearings on NPDES Permit Applications Section 309.116 Notice of Agency Hearing Section 309.117 Agency Hearing Section 309.118 Agency Hearing File Section 309.119 Agency Action After Hearing Section 309.120 Reopening the Record to Receive Additional Written Comment Section 309.141 Terms and Conditions of NPDES Permits Section 309.142 Water Quality Standards and Waste Load Allocation Section 309.143 Effluent Limitations Section 309.144 Federal New Source Standards of Performance Section 309.145 Duration of Permits Section 309.146 Authority to Establish Recording, Reporting, Monitoring, and Sampling Requirements Section 309.147 Authority to Apply Entry and Inspection Requirements Section 309.148 Schedules of Compliance Section 309.149 Authority to Require Notice of Introduction of Pollutants into Publicly Owned Treatment Works Section 309.150 Authority to Ensure Compliance by Industrial Users with Sections 204(b), 307, and 308 of the Clean Water Act Section 309.151 Maintenance and Equipment Section 309.152 Toxic Pollutants Section 309.153 Deep Well Disposal of Pollutants (Repealed) Section 309.154 Authorization to Construct Section 309.155 Sewage Sludge Disposal Section 309.156 Total Dissolved Solids Reporting and Monitoring Section 309.157 Permit Limits for Total Metals Section 309.181 Appeal of Final Agency Action on a Permit Application Section 309.182 Authority to Modify, Suspend or Revoke Permits Section 309.183 Revision of Schedule of Compliance Section 309.184 Regulatory Relief Section 309.185 Public Access to Information (Repealed) Section 309.191 Effective Date (Repealed) SUBPART B: OTHER PERMITS Section 309.201 Preamble Section 309.202 Construction Permits Section 309.203 Operating Permits; New or Modified Sources Section 309.204 Operating Permits; Existing Sources Section 309.205 Joint Construction and Operating Permits Section 309.206 Experimental Permits Section 309.207 Former Permits (Repealed) Section 309.208 Permits for Sites Receiving Sludge for Land Application Section 309.221 Applications -- Contents Section 309.222 Applications – Signatures and Authorizations Section 309.223 Applications – Delivery Section 309.224 Applications – Time to Apply Section 309.225 Applications – Filing and Final Action By Agency Section 309.241 Standards for Issuance Section 309.242 Duration and Termination of Permits Issued Under Subpart B Section 309.243 Conditions Section 309.244 Appeals from Conditions in Permits Section 309.261 Permit No Defense Section 309.262 Design, Operation, and Maintenance Criteria Section 309.263 Modification or Renewal of Permits Section 309.264 Permit Revocation Section 309.265 Approval of Federal Permits Section 309.266 Procedures (Repealed) Section 309.281 Effective Date (Repealed) Section 309.282 Severability (Repealed) Section 309.APPENDIX A REFERENCES TO PREVIOUS RULES (Repealed)

AUTHORITY: Implementing Sections 13 and 13.3 and authorized by Section 27 of the Environmental Protection Act [415 ILCS 5/13, 13.3 and 27].

SOURCE: Adopted in R71-14, at 4 PCB 3, March 7, 1972; amended in R73-11, 12, at 14 PCB 661, December 5, 1974, at 16 PCB 511, April 24, 1975, and at 28 PCB 509, December 20, 1977; amended in R73-11, 12, at 29 PCB 477, at 2 Ill. Reg. 16, p. 20, effective April 20, 1978; amended in R79-13, at 39 PCB 263, at 4 Ill. Reg. 34, p. 159, effective August 7, 1980; amended in R77-12B, at 41 PCB 369, at 5 Ill. Reg. 6384, effective May 28, 1981; amended in R76-21, at 44 PCB 203, at 6 Ill. Reg. 563, effective December 24, 1981; codified at 6 Ill. Reg. 7818; amended in R82-5, 10, at 54 PCB 411, at 8 Ill. Reg. 1612, effective January 18, 1984; amended in R86-44 at 12 Ill. Reg. 2495, effective January 13, 1988; amended in R88-1 at 13 Ill. Reg. 5993, effective April 18, 1989; amended in R88-21(A) at 14 Ill. Reg. 2892, effective February 13, 1990; amended in R91-5 at 16 Ill. Reg. 7339, effective April 27, 1992; amended in R95-22 at 20 Ill. Reg. 5526, effective April 1, 1996; amended in R99-8 at 23 Ill. Reg. 11287, effective August 26, 1999; amended in R02-11 at 27 Ill. Reg. 202, effective December 20, 2002; amended in R03-19 at 28 Ill. Reg. 7310, effective May 7, 2004; amended in R07-9 at 32 Ill. Reg. 14995, effective September 8, 2008; amended in R08-09(D) at 39 Ill. Reg. 9433, effective June 26, 2015; amended in R15-24 at 40 Ill. Reg. 8597, effective June 13, 2016; amended in R18-23 at 47 Ill. Reg. 5017, effective March 23, 2023.