ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

January 25, 1990

IN THE

MATTER

OF:

)

PETITION OF BORDEN CHEMICALS

AND

)

PLASTICS OPERATING LIMITED

)

R86-14

PARTNERSHIP (FORMERLY BORDEN CHEMICAL

)

(Site-specific

COMPANY) FOR SITE-SPECIFIC

RULE

)

rulemaking)

CHANGE REGARDING WASTEWATER

)

DISCHARGES

INTO AN UNNAMED TRIBUTARY

)

OF LONG POINT SLOUGH

)

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by J. Theodore Meyer):

This matter is before the Board on a January 17, 1990 motion

for expedited decision,

filed by petitioner Borden Chemicals

and

Plastics Limited Operating Partnership (Borden).

Borden asks the

Board to expedite its decision

in this site-specific rulemaking.

Borden notes that it is currently operating under a variance from

the water quality standards for total dissolved solids

(TDS)

and

chloride.

Those

standards are also the subject

of the instant

rulemaking.

The variance

expires

on

October

6,

1990,

or upon

conipletion of the rulemaking, whichever comes first.

Borden state

that

it wishes

to

avoid

the need to

file another petition

for

extension

of the current variance,

and therefore

asks

that the

Board expedite its decision in this rulemaking so that the matter

may

be

resolved

before

the

October

6,

1990

expiration

of

the

variance.

Borden’s motion for expedited consideration is granted,

and the Board will act upon this rulemaking as quickly as possible

consistent with the demands of its caseload.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I,

Dorothy N.

Gunn,

Clerk

of the Illinois Pollution Control_

Board, here6~certify that the above Order was adopted on the ~‘5~’—~

day of

_________________,

1990,

by a vote of

/‘~‘

.

/1

~

/‘J~~1

Dorothy N.

G.ünn, Clerk

Illinois Po3~lutionControl Board

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