ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

April

4,

1972

CONGREGATION AM ECHOD

v.

)

#

72—11

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

NORTH SHORE INDUSTRIAL

& RESEARCH CENTRE

v.

)

#

72—12

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Opinion

& Order of tl~eBoard

(by Mr.

Currie):

These petitions seek variances from our ban on new sewer

connections within the North Shore Sanitary District

(League of

Women Voters

v.

NSSD,

#

70—7, March

31,

1971).

Since they were

filed we have granted the District authority to permit

a number

of additional connections to the Clavey Road and Waukegan

sewage treatment plants,

to which

the sewers in the present

cases are tributary, on the basis

of improvements

to the treat-

ment facilities at those plants.

The petitioners are therefore

free

to apply to the District for permits to connect to the

sewers.

Until they have done so and for some unforeseeable reason been

refused, there is no need for

a variance since

a permit, for

all the petitions tell us,

can be issued without

a variance.

The petitions are dismissed as moot in light of

the variance

granted the District

in

#

71-343, North Shore Sanitary District

v.

EPA,

as revised March

2,

1972.

See Chesterfield Development

Co.

v.

EPA,

#

71—378

(March

2,

1972).

I, Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board

certf

that the Board adopted

the above Opinion

& Order

this

________day of April,

1972, by

a vote of

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