ILLINOIS

POLLUTION

CONTROL BOARD

April

4,

1972

CITY OF GALENA

V.

)

PCB 72—122

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OPINION

AND

INTERIM ORDER:

On March

29, 1972,

the City of Galena filed a petition with

the Board seeking a variance from the Board with regard to the

Open turning Regulations.

The City seeks to open burn piles of

brush obtained from clearing a 22 acre area near the Galena River.

The petition recites that to otherwise dispose of the piles of

brush would constitute

a financial hardship to the City; however,

the petition does not recite what alternatives to open burning

of the piles of brush the City investigated and the costs of those

alternatives.

Under normal circumstances

if

a petition does not

contain such relevant information, it would be dismissed and the

petitioner would be required to file a new petition with the new

information if it wanted a variance.

In this case, however, we will

allow

the petitioner 15 days to amend its petition to include the

necessary information on alternative means

of disposal of the piles

of brush

and

the

cost

of those means.

If the petitioner fails

to

give the Board adequate additional information within that time,

the

petition will be dismissed.

If the petitioner does give the Board

the necessary information, then we will await the Agency recommen-

dation before deciding whether a variance should be granted.

It is so ordered.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board,

ce~ifythat the above Opinion and Interim Order was adopted this

‘f

I

day of April,

1972, by

a vote of ~~-o

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