ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June 20, 1972
    DANTE A. GRECO
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 72—193
    )
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    OPINION OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Kissel):
    On May 2,
    1972, Dante Greco filed a variance petition on
    behalf of his mother seeking permission to connect a new single
    family residence to an existing sewer line tributary to the North
    Shore Sanitary District plant at Park Avenue in Highland Park.
    Said plant is presently subject to a sewer conneOtion ban imposed
    by the Board on March 31,
    1971.
    Petitioner’s mother seeks to build a small home
    which
    she
    alone will occupy on a lot where a building was previously located
    but has since burned to the ground.
    Mrs. Greco is presently living
    with relatives in the North Shore Sanitary District.
    We have previously held that a sewer connection permit may
    be issued when the new source replaces an existing source and does
    not result in a net increase in the organic or hydraulic load to a
    given sewer or treatment facility.
    See Harris v. Environmental
    Protection Agency, PCB 72—233, decided June
    14, 1972;
    State National
    Bank of Evanston v.
    Environmental Protection Agency, PCB 72—176,
    decided May 10, 1972.
    The present case falls within that holding
    since Mrs. Greco is presently a resident of the District and plans
    to build on a lot previously occupied by
    a building.
    Mrs. Greco
    has expressed her willingness to sign a statement not to sell,
    convey or rent the premises to any other party until the lake inter-
    ceptor has been completed in November,
    1973.
    Such a statement
    should also assure that Mrs. Greco will not allow any other party
    to reside there on a permanent basis until the completion of the
    lake interceptor.
    The variance will be conditioned upon the sub-
    mission of such
    a statement by Mrs. Greco within 20 days after the
    receipt of this Order.
    4— 689
    The Agency has asked that Mrs. Greco post a performance
    bond to assure her compliance with the conditions of the variance.
    We do not think that such a bond is necessary in this
    case.
    Any
    violation of this Board Order granting the variance constitutes
    a violation of the Act for which appropriate sanctions may be
    sought.
    The variance is hereby granted, subject to the conditions
    as described above.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan L.
    Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board,
    certify that the Board adopted the above Opinion and Order this
    ~
    day of
    June,
    1972, by a vote of
    5-~
    4
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    690

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