ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
September 3, 1992
LACLEDE STEEL CO., INC.,
)
Petitioner,
v.
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PCB 92—128
(Provisional Variance)
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
)
Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD (by J.C. Marlin):
This matter comes before the Board on receipt of an Agency
Recommendation dated September 1, 1992. The recommendation
refers to a request from Petitioner, for a 30—day provisional
variance for its Madison County facility from the 90-day
limitation on the storage of hazardous wastes, as set forth in 35
Ill. Adm. Code 722.134(b), for the period from August 23, 1992 to
September 22, 1992.
Upon receipt of the request, the Agency issued its
recommendation, finding that due to unforeseen, temporary and
uncontrollable circumstances, failure to grant the requested 30—
day provisional variance would impose an arbitrary or
unreasonable hardship on Petitioner.
The responsibilities of the Agency and the Board in these
short-term provisional variances are different from the
responsibilities in standard variances. See Ill. Rev. Stat.
1991, ch. 111½, pars. 1035(b) & (c). In provisional variances it
is the responsibility of the Agency to make .the technical
determinations and finding of arbitrary or unreasonable hardship.
The Board’s responsibility is to adopt a formal Order, to assure
the formal maintenance of the record, to assure the
enforceability of the variance, and to provide notification of
the action by a press release.
Having received the Agency recommendation finding that a
denial of the requested relief would impose an arbitrary.and
unreasonable hardship, the Board hereby grants Petitioner a
provisional variance from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 722.134(b) from
August 23, 1992 to September 22, 1992.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
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I, Dorothy N. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board, do hereby certify that the~ab~e_orderwas adopted by the
Board on the
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