ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

December

6,

1971

MARS DEVELOPMENT CO.

et al.

v.

)

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71—344

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Preliminary Order:

This is an amended petition submitted

in response

to

our order dismissing earlier petitions for stated deficiencies,

H

71—218,

71-219, October 26,

1971.

Because the amended petition

alleged that

the earlier difficulties had been overcome we

held the case

in hopes

that

an early Agency recommendation

might permit

its decision without hearing.

The Agency, however,

has raised three serious factual

issues that we think can

only be resolved after hearing:

whether the revised storage

tank is of adequate

size to provide five days’

capacity; whether

there

is adequate provision made

to prevent odors;

and whether

there is adequate safeguard against explosion.

We hereby authorize

a hearing,

to be held as expeditiously

as practicable, directed

to those three issues alone.

I, Christan Moffett, Acting Clerk of the Pollution Control Board,

certify that the Board adopted the above Preliminary Order

this

6th

day of December,

1971.

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