ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

January 23 1973

FOSS PARK DISTRICT

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#72—442

v.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (BY SAMUEL T. LAWTON, JR.):

Petitioner seeks

a variance from our order

entered in League

of Women Voters v. North Shore Sanitary District, #70-7, to enable

construction of a recreation building that would discharge waste

into sewers tributary to the North Chicago facilities of the North

Shore Sanitary District.

The park district

is located in North Chicago

and the petitioner has represented that the persons using the facilities

would be principally from the North Chicago area.

The Agency has recommended that the petition be granted, subject

to several conditions which we believe are not necessary to impose.

We have granted variances of this nature for public recreational

facil-

ities in previous cases. See Tennis Development Corporation v. Environ-

mental

Protection

Agency,

#72-59,

(Nay 17, 1972) and Waukegan Park

District v. Environmental Protection Agency, ##71-314, 71-342 (Decem-

ber 31, 1971)

.

We believe the impact on the district facilities will

be minimal and disproportionate with the hardship imposed on the

community if the recreational facility is not constructed.

IT IS THE ORDER of the Pollution Control Board that petitioner,

Foss Park District, be granted a variance from the order of the Board

in League of Women Voters v. North Shore Sanitary District, #70-7, for

construction of a recreational building and connection to facilities

tributary to the North Shore Sanitary District sewage treatment plant.

I, Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution C~ntrolBoard,

certify that the above Opinion was adopted on the ~3~day of January,

1973, by a vote of

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