ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March 17, 2005
     
    IN THE MATTER OF:
     
    PETITION OF THE VILLAGE OF
    BENSENVILLE FOR AN ADJUSTED
    STANDARD FROM 35 ILL. ADM. CODE
    620.410 REGARDING CHLORIDE AND
    LEAD
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    AS 05-2
    (Adjusted Standard – Water)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by A.S. Moore):
     
    On January 3, 2005, the Village of Bensenville (Bensenville) filed a petition for an
    adjusted standard from the Board’s groundwater quality standards. Specifically, Bensenville
    seeks relief from the Class I or potable resource groundwater quality standards at 35 Ill. Adm.
    Code 620.410(a) for chloride and lead. Bensenville requests less stringent standards for its
    closed landfill site, which is located in Bensenville, DuPage County.
     
    On January 20, 2005, the Board issued an order finding that Bensenville had satisfied the
    requirement of newspaper notice for adjusted standard petitions under the Environmental
    Protection Act (415 ILCS 5/28.1 (2002)), a prerequisite to the Board having jurisdiction over this
    proceeding. In addition, the Board granted Bensenville’s motion for expedited review and its
    motion to file a reduced number of petition copies. However, the Board’s January 20, 2005
    order also identified several informational deficiencies in Bensenville’s petition and directed
    Bensenville to file an amended petition by February 18, 2005, to cure them.
     
    On February 17, 2005, Bensenville filed a motion to extend the deadline for filing the
    amended petition to March 4, 2005, representing that the Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency (Agency) did not object to the motion being granted. On March 1, 2005, the hearing
    officer granted Bensenville’s motion for additional time. On March 4, 2005, Bensenville filed
    the amended petition. Bensenville included a motion to file a reduced number of amended
    petition copies, which the Board grants.
     
    The Board finds that the amended petition addresses the identified informational
    deficiencies and that with its filing, Bensenville has satisfied the adjusted standard petition
    content requirements of the Board’s procedural rules.
    See
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 104.406. As the
    Board stated in its January 20, 2005 order, the Agency must file its recommendation within 30
    days after being served with Bensenville’s amended petition. Bensenville, in turn, will have 14
    days after being served with the Agency’s recommendation to file a response.
     
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
     
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    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the Board
    adopted the above order on March 17, 2005, by a vote of 5-0.
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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