TITLE 35: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
SUBTITLE C: WATER POLLUTION
CHAPTER I: POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
PART 308 DISPOSAL OF WASTES FROM WATERCRAFT

Section 308.101 Preamble

Section 308.102 Marine Toilets

Section 308.103 Contaminated Bilge or Ballast Waters

Section 308.104 Statewide Application


Section 308.APPENDIX References to Previous Rules (Repealed)


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


SOURCE: Filed with the Secretary of State January 1, 1978; amended 3 Ill. Reg. no. 25, p. 190, effective June 21, 1979; codified 6 Ill. Reg. 7818; amended in 18-23 at 47 Ill. Reg. 5012, effective March 23, 2023.

 

Section 308.101  Preamble

 

This Part addresses water pollution controls for the disposal of wastes from watercraft.

 

(Source:  Amended at 47 Ill. Reg. 5012, effective March 23, 2023)

 

Section 308.102  Marine Toilets

 

a)         A person owning or operating a watercraft with a marine toilet must not use, or permit the use of, the toilet on the waters of this State, unless the toilet is equipped with facilities that will treat, hold, incinerate, or otherwise handle the waste in a manner capable of preventing water pollution as described in subsection (c).

 

b)         A person must not dispose of any sewage or wastewater accumulated in a holding tank or any other container on a watercraft, in such a manner that the sewage or wastewater reaches or may reach the waters of the State, except by pumpout to an operating sewage works approved by the Agency or operated under a permit issued by the Agency.

 

c)         Acceptable pollution control devices are:

 

1)         Holding tanks that retain wastes from marine toilets for proper disposal under subsection (b).

 

2)         Incinerating devices that will reduce to ash all sewage and toilet wastes produced on the watercraft.  The ash from these devices must not be disposed of in the waters of Illinois.

 

3)         Any other device determined by the Agency to provide an effluent that meets the effluent criteria of this Chapter.

 

(Source:  Amended at 47 Ill. Reg. 5012, effective March 23, 2023)

 

Section 308.103  Contaminated Bilge or Ballast Waters

 

Bilge or ballast water that fails to meet the effluent standards of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 304 must not be discharged into the waters of the State.

 

(Source:  Amended at 47 Ill. Reg. 5012, effective March 23, 2023)

 

Section 308.104  Statewide Application

 

This Part applies to all waters of the State unless preempted under Section 312 of the CWA.

 

(Source:  Amended at 47 Ill. Reg. 5012, effective March 23, 2023)

Section 308.APPENDIX   References to Previous Rules (Repealed)

 

(Source:  Repealed at 47 Ill. Reg. 5012, effective March 23, 2023)