ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January 17, 1974
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    GERALD F. VERMUELEN
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    v.
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    PCB 73-501
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    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by Mr. Dumelle):
    Petitioner filed a Variance Petition from Order #7
    of League of Women Voters v. North Shore Sanitary District,
    PCB7O-7, 12, 13, and 14 to allow him to connect a newly
    constructed animal hospital sewer which is tributary to the
    Clavey Road Sewage Treatment Plant. The Agency filed a
    Recommendation to grant the variance on January 11, 1974.
    Petitioner’s animal hospital is located at 1391 Northwestern
    Avenue in Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois in an area which
    is currently under a sewer ban. Since Petitioner’s new facility
    is not larger than his old animal hospital and the old one is
    to be destroyed, a grant of Petitioner’s request would not result
    in any additional load to the Clavey Road Sewage Treatment Plant.
    To require Petitioner to wait until July 1, 1974 to connect
    his hospital to the sewer system would work an arbitrary and
    unreasonable hardship (See North Shore Sanitary District v.
    EPA, PCB 73-134, Order).
    This Opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of facts
    and conclusions of law.
    ORDER
    The Illinois Pollution Control Board hereby grants Gerald F.
    VerMeulen a variance from Order #7 of League of Women Voters v.
    North Shore Sanitary District, PCB 70-7, 12, 13, and 14 to allow
    a sewer connection for his animal hospital.
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    The Board hereby orders that the North Shore Sanitary
    District subtract Petitioner’s population equivalent from the
    total population equivalent granted to the District in
    North Shore Sanitary District v, EPA, PCB 73-134.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Cnntrol Board, heresy certify the above Opinion and Order were
    adopted on the
    17
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    day of January, 1974 by a vote of
    Christan L. Moffett’,/ç2’erk
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    Illinois Pollution ~~frtro1Board
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