IL~iNCIS P~LLUTIOt~CONTROL BOARD

August 6, 1967

CHANUTE AIR FORCE BASE,

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 86—152

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION

AGENCY,

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by R.C. Flemal):

On July 10, 1967, Chanute Air Force Base (“Chanute”) filed a

request that the variance granted by the Board in this matter on

January 6, 1967, be amended to expire on December 31, 1967. The

variance is currently scheduled to expire on September 30, 1987.

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (‘~Agency”)

recommended that the original variance be granted. The Agency

has not responded to the instant filing.

Chanute presently operates its own sewage treatment

facility. However, Chanute will in the future contribute its

wastes to the Rantoul Regional Sewage Treatment Plant, and

thereafter close its own plant. At the time of the original

pleadings in this matter, the Rantoul Regional Sewage Treatment

Plant was scheduled to be fully operational by late summer or

early fall 1987. Chanute now contends that the plant will not be

fully operational until December 1967, and that Chanute will

therefore need to continue operation of its own plant until that

time.

In its January 6, 1987, Opinion and Order the Board found

that Chanute would suffer arbitrary or unreasonable hardship if

denied variance relief, and that such hardship would not be

justified by the environmental impact of Chanute’s discharge.

There have been no apparent changes in the facts which would

cause the Board to alter this finding for the short—term

extension which is requested. Accordingly, the extension is

granted.

For the purpose of maintaining here a current record of this

matter, the variance and its conditions, as today amended, are

repeated below. Chanute should note the need to certify

acceptance of the amended variance.

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AMENDED

VARIANCE

Chanute Air Force Base is hereby granted variance from the

Five—Day Biochemical Oxygen Demand (“BOD5”) and Suspended Solids

(“ThS”) limitations of 35 Ill. Adm. Code Section 304.120, subject

to the following conditions:

1. Variance shall expire on December 31, 1987, or upon

completion of the Rantoul regional STP achieving

operational status, whichever occurs first;

2. Petitioner’s effluent shall be limited to 20 mg/i BOD~

as a monthly average, and 25 mg/i TSS, also as a montnly

average;

3. Petitioner shall continue its participation in the

Rantoul regional STP and shall do everything in its

power to assure its completion in as timely a manner as

possible;

4. Chanute shall comply with all efforts to minimize any

adverse environmental effects occasioned by this

variance, including items 16(a) through 16(e) of the

Petition for Variance.

Within forty—five days after this date, Petitioner shall

execute and send to:

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

Attention: James Frost

Division of ~ater Pollution Control

Compliance Assurance Section

2200 Churchill Road

Springfield, Illinois 62706

a certificate of acceptance of this variance by which it agrees

to be bound by its terms and conditions. This forty—five day

period shall be held in abeyance for any period during which this

matter is appealed. The form of the certification shall be as

follows:

CERTIFICATION

I, (We), ____________________________, having read the

Order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, in PCB 86—152,

dated August 6, 1987, understand and accept the said Order,

realizing that such acceptance renders all terms and conditions

thereto binding and enforceable.

Petitioner

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By: Authorized Agent

Title

Date

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Bo~rd, hereby certify that the above Order was adopted on the

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day of

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1987, by a vote of c.~°

Dorothy M. ~unn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board

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