ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
August 9, 1990
CITY OF WHITE HALL,
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Petitioner,
v.
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PCB 90—154
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(Provisional Variance)
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
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PROTECTION AGENCY,
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Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(3.
Marlin):
This matter comes before the Board on receipt of an Agency
Recommendation dated August 8, 1990. The recommendation refers
to a request from Petitioner, City of White Hall, for a
provisional variance from the biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD5)
and suspended solids (TSS) effluent requirements, as set forth in
35 Iii. Adm. Code 304.120 and 304.141(a) for the period from July
21, 1990 to September 7, 1990.
The Agency recommends that the Board grant the requested
provisional variance with specified conditions. The Agency
agrees that the repairs are necessary. The Agency anticipates
that the requested provisional variance would have minimal
environmental impact on the receiving stream. The Agency is
unaware of any public water supplies that the requested
provisional variance would adversely impact. The Agency
maintains that a grant of a provisional variance would violate no
federal laws. The Agency opines that a denial of the requested
provisional variance would create an arbitrary and unreasonable
hardship on the Petitioner.
In light of the Agency Recommendation, the Board hereby
grants a provisional variance from 35 Ill. Adrn. Code 304.120, and
304.141(a) on the following conditions:
1. The term of this provisional variance shall commence on
July 21, 1990, and it shall expire on September 7, 1990;
2. During the term of this provisional variance, the
effluent from the Petitioner’s treatment plant shall not
exceed concentrations of 25 mg/i BOD5 or 40 mg/l TSS (each
on a monthly average basis);
3. The Petitioner shall notify Bud Bridgewater of the
Agency’s Springfield Regional office by telephone, at
217/786—6892 when it removes its activated sludge treatment
unit from service and when it returns the unit to service,
and the Petitioner shall confirm this notice in writing
within five days, addressed as follows:
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within five days, addressed as follows:
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Division of Water Pollution Control
Compliance Assurance Section
2200 Churchill Road
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794—9276
Attention: Pat Lindsey
4. The Petitioner shall return its activated sludge
treatment unit to service as soon as possible and operate
its plant during the term of this provisional variance in a
manner that assures the best treatment practicable; and
5. The Petitioner shall execute a copy of a Certificate of
Acceptance of this provisional variance and forward that
copy to the Agency addressed as is required above for a
notice; the Petitioner shall forward that copy within 10
days of the date of this Order of the Board, and the
Certificate of Acceptance shall take the following form:
CERTIFICATION
I (We)
_________________________________________
hereby accept and agree to be bound by all terms
and conditions of the Order of the Pollution
Control Board in PCB 90—154, August 9, 1990.
Petitioner
Authorized Agent
Title
Date
IT IS SO ORDERED.
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I, Dorothy N. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
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hereby cert,~fythat the above Order was adopted on the
~77~L day of ____________________________, 1990, by a vote of
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Dorothy N. ~unn, Clerk
Illinois Pollution Control Board
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