ILLINOIS
    POLLUTION
    CONTROL
    BOARD
    October
    17,
    1972
    LAKE
    FOREST
    SAVINGS
    AND
    LOAN
    )
    ASSOCIATION
    )
    #72—402
    v.
    )
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION
    AGENCY
    )
    ORDER
    OF
    THE
    BOARD
    (BY
    SAMUEL
    T.
    LAWTONI
    JR.)
    Lake
    Forest
    Savings
    and
    Loan
    Association
    has
    filed a peti-
    tion
    for
    variance
    from
    our North Shore Sanitary District sewer
    connection
    ban
    order,
    LWV,
    et
    al
    v.
    NSSD,
    #70-7,
    etc.
    1
    PCB
    369,
    (March 31,
    1971)
    to enable construction of a two-story,
    5,000
    square foot structure in Lake Forest, which will discharge into
    facilities
    tributary to the Lake Forest sewage treatment plant.
    At one time,
    the property was improved with a single-family
    residence and a dry cleaning plant, which employed twelve persons.
    These structures have been demolished.
    Petitioner represents that
    it will be discharging less waste into the sanitary district
    facilities
    than the former owners of the property, having fewer
    employees,
    and will not discharge chemical fluids presumably used
    in the cleaning plant operation.
    The petition fails
    to state when the former structures
    were demolished, which information is vital in the determination
    of whether a variance should be granted.
    Specifically, we will
    need to know whether the demolition took place before or after
    the imposition of our sewer connection ban order of March
    31,
    1971.
    Such facts are germane to a determination of whether
    a
    variance would be needed at all,
    for we have said our sewer ban
    order does not forbid connections that replace existing sources
    and do not result in a net increase in the organic or hydraulic
    load to
    a given sewer or treatment facility.
    See State National
    Bank of Evanston v. Environmental Protection Agency, #72-176,
    4 PCB 499
    (May 10, 1972).
    Cf. John S. Wineman,
    et al
    v. Environ-
    mental Protection Agency,
    #72-310,
    5 PCB
    (October 17,
    1972)
    Petitioner is ordered to file this information with the
    Environmental Protection Agency and with the Pollut,ion Control
    Board within ten days from the date of this Order.
    The Environ-
    mental Protection Agency is ordered to file its recommendation
    within twenty-one days from the receipt of the information sought.
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    The statutory period for the granting of the variance shall
    commence upon the receipt of the foregoing information from petitioner.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board,
    certify
    that
    the
    above
    Order
    was
    adepted
    on the
    ~74 ~day
    of
    Octo-
    ber,
    1972, by a vote of
    .5’
    to
    C
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    I
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