ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

September 12, 1972

DEARBORN CHEMICAL DIVISION

OF

CJ-IEMED CORPORATION

v.

#72—247

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(BY SAMUEL

T. LAWTON,

JR.)

On October 14,

1971,

in Case #71-205, we granted petitioner an

120 day variance from compliance with the provisions of SWB-14

in order to enable petitioner to make connection with the Lake Zurich

Municipal Treatment System

or

provide alternate plans

for treatment

of its plant effluent, subject to conditions

of reporting and bond

as therein provided.

On March

2,

1972, in Case #71-387, the order was extended an

additional 139 days,

on representation that the Village of Lake

Zurich had authorized the connection

to its municipal treatment

plant and that final plans and specifications were submitted to the

Environmental Protection Agency for their approval.

On June 19,

1972, we received a third petition requesting

a further 60-day extension of the variance.

The petition recites

that revision of the plans and specifications were required by the

Environmental Protection Agency and that requests for permit for

construction for the preliminary wastewater treatment plant had

been filed by the company on April

6,

1972 and permit received on

April

20,

1972.

Difficulty was encountered in obtaining acceptable

bids and construction work was delayed.

The company represents that

the construction work

is proceeding at the present time,

and that

the 60-day extension

is needed

bo assure completion.

The Agency

has recommended that the 60—day variance be granted.

It would appear from the computation of the dates involved

that the proceeding is now moot because the total time already

allowed plus sixty days would bring the total variance to approx-

imately September 1,

1972.

However, because of the bond requirement

and a possibility of prosecution after the expiration of the earlier

variance, we grant the 60—day extension

as requested.

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This opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclu-

sions of law of the Board.

IT

IS

THE

ORDER of the Pollution Control Board that petitioner

be granted a sixty-day extension from the expiration of the variance

heretofore granted in case #71-387 by order of March

2,

1972, sub-

ject to the same terms and conditions with respect to the posting

of

a $20,000.00 bond as therein provided.

I, Christan Moffett, Clerk of the ILlinois Pollution Control Boa ~d,

certify that the above Opinion and Order was adopted on the

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1972, by

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