ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 17,
    1994
    AMOCO OIL
    COMPANY,
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 94—70
    )
    (Provisional Variance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by C.
    A. Manning):
    Pursuant to Section 35(b)
    of the Environmental Protection
    Act
    (Act)
    (415 ILCS 5/35(b)), Amoco Oil Company has requested
    that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency)
    recommend that the Board grant a provisional variance to allow
    Amoco Oil Company to continue accumulating hazardous waste for a
    period in excess of ninety
    (90) days.
    Such request for a
    provisional variance and the Notification of Recommendation was
    filed with the Board by the Agency on Tuesday, February 15,
    1994.
    Pursuant to Section 35(b)
    of the Act, the Board must issue the
    variance within two
    (2) days of this filing.
    Specifically, the Agency recommends that we grant a thirty
    (30)-day provisional variance from the ninety (90)-day limitation
    on the storage of hazardous wastes, as set forth in 35 Ill. Adm.
    Code 722.134(b),
    for the period from January 21,
    1994 to February
    19,
    1994.
    The Agency Recommendation was filed February
    15,
    1994.
    Upon receipt of the request, the Agency issued its
    recommendation, notifying the Board that due to unforeseen,
    temporary and uncontrollable circumstances, failure to grant the
    requested thirty (30)-day provisional variance would impose an
    arbitrary or unreasonable hardship on the petitioner.
    Provisional variances are by their very nature temporary.
    The responsibilities of the Agency and the Board
    in these short-
    term provisional variances are different from the
    responsibilities in standard variances.
    (See 415 ILCS 5/35(b)
    &
    36(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 notifying the
    Board that a denial of the requested relief would impose an
    arbitrary or unreasonable hardship, the Board hereby grants the
    petitioner a provisional variance from 35 Ill. Adm. Code
    2
    722.134(b)
    from January 21, 1994 to February 19,
    1994.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, do hereby certif
    hat the above order was adopted on the
    /7Zj
    day of
    ___________________________,
    1994, by a vote of
    ~
    ~•
    Dorothy M. ~nn,
    Clerk
    Illinois Po~LLutionControl Board

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