Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA)
Notice of Public Hearing
The Andersons Ethanol Champaign, LLC Public Hearing Monday May 5, 2008 6 p.m. Building D (south side of campus) Room D244 Parkland College Champaign, Illinois The IEPA Bureau of Water has prepared a draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for The Andersons Ethanol Champaign, LLC. The address of the applicant is POB 119, Maumee, Ohio, and the facility location is in Champaign County, 3515 N. Staley Road, Champaign, Illinois. Andersons is a new ethanol plant designed to produce 110 million gallons of ethanol annually. The facility has applied for an NPDES permit to discharge an average of 720,000 gallons of wastewater per day. Wastewaters to be discharged include cooling tower blowdown, water treatment wastes, reverse osmosis reject water, filter backwash and water softener regeneration water. The wastewaters will be collected in a detention pond before discharge to the Kaskaskia Ditch. Page 2 of 2 The Kaskaskia Ditch (segment O-37) is the name for the upper reach of the Kaskaskia River and is classified for general use water. Segment O-37 is cited in the
2006 Illinois Integratedas impaired for fish consumption. The listedWater Pollution), the Illinois Environmental Protection Act and the federal Clean Water Inquiries about permit number IL0078476 should be directed to Permit Engineer Darin LeCrone, IEPA Bureau of Water Permit Section, 1021 North Grand Avenue East, Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276, phone 217-782-0610, or e-mail The hearing will be held under the provisions of 35 Illinois Administrative Code 166, Darin.LeCrone@Illinois.gov. Procedures for Permit and Closure Plan Hearings, which can be obtained online at http://www.ipcb.state.il.us/documents/dsweb/Get/Document-11865 Requests for special needs interpreters must be made to the IEPA hearing officer by 2008 The IEPA welcomes substantive written comments. postmarked or e-mailed June 4, 2008, when the hearing record closes. hearing transcript and written comments. Comments need not be notarized and should be sent to: Hearing Officer Christine Davis #15 Illinois Environmental Protection Agency 1021 North Grand Avenue East P. O. Box 19276 Springfield, IL 62794-9276 Phone 217-782-3362 TDD (hearing impaired) 217-782-9143 E-mail .April 4,. Testimony at the hearing is limited to the draft NPDES permit.Written comments must be(e-mails should specify IEPA hearing in subject line) by midnight,The hearing record is a file containing theChristine.Davis@Illinois.gov The Andersons hearing was originally set for March 25, 2008, and now is scheduled for May 5, 2008.
Water Quality Report and Section 303(d) List
cause of impairment is PCBs the source of which is unknown.
The IEPA has made a tentative determination to issue this five-year NPDES permit for
discharge into waters of the state in accordance with 35 Illinois Administrative Code Subtitle
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Act.
The public notice/fact sheet which contains the draft antidegradation assessment and the
draft NPDES permit can be viewed on the IEPA website:
http://www.epa.state.il.us/public-notices/2007/andersons-ethanol/index.pdf
I received the following notice via email. I haven't seen any discussion on here regarding this issue. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts.
The mass production of ethanol for use as a biofuel (a.k.a. the "Ethanol Craze") is a immoral government subsidized program by which a foodstuff is degraded for use as fuel for gasoline engine powered automobiles. The Ethanol Craze has consumed massive amounts of food grains, contributing to a global (worldwide) increase in the price of food, and has been a cause of misery, starvation, and political unrest in divers parts of the world.
Ethanol plants are established for the purpose of capturing the tremendous lucre of the government subsidies, without which there would be no mass proliferation of ethanol producing plants in the Midwest. The familiar 2-carbon alcohol is a byproduct of the diversion of public moneys into the coffers of the owners of ethanol plants.
Inertia is a characteristic of any machine that has mass, since that mass at rest requires effort to get it moving, and moving, it requires effort to get it stopped. The machinery of the ethanol mills is massive enough that it will "run for a long time after the water stops going over the wheel". The outcry against the food for fuel mess is growing shrill enough already that the government is beginning to realize the colossal sham/colossal error is in danger of being exposed and so they are starting to backpedal on the web of subsidies tariffs regulations that sustains the Ethanol Craze. But the Ethanol Plants, having already been established, will keep running and consuming corn for quite awhile simply because they are running and the mass effect of sunk capital, various side deals cut to allow the plant to operate, labor issues, need to save face, and optimism will keep them running and consuming grain for quite some time after the support for the Ethanol Craze has vapourized.
Why not just make ethanol with raw money instead of corn? I hear that currency turns to alcohol very nicely.