ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January 30, 1973
    CENTRAL
    SOYA COMPANY,
    INCORPORATED
    )
    #72-320
    v.
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    W.
    F. BORGMANN, APPEARED. ON BEHALF OF CENTRAL SOYA COMPANY,
    INCORPORATED
    PRESCOTT E.
    BLOOM, SPECIAL ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, APPEARED
    ON
    BEHALF OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD. (BY SAMUEL T.
    LAWTON,
    JR.):
    This
    is a variance petition requesting an extension until
    July
    31,
    1973 to comply with the provisions
    of Rule 405 of the Water
    Pollution Regulations, providing that no effluent shall exceed .400
    fecal coliform per 100 mg/i after July 31,
    1972.
    Petitioner owns and operates a facility near Gibson City,
    Illinois
    in which it processes soy beans and manufactures and stores livestock
    and poultry feed, employing 250 persons and serving 225 feed dealers.
    Storage space for 8,500,000 bushels of grain
    is provided.
    9,000,000
    bushels
    of soy beans are processed each year.
    Discharge from the
    facility approximates 20,000 fecal coliform per 100 mg/i at a flow
    rate of
    .2 million gallons per day.
    Petitioner employs a three-
    stage sewage treatment plant lagoon.
    It proposes a combination of in-plant waste reduction methods
    and re-cycling of effluent water in the processes of the plant, in-
    cluding wajer from the third stage lagoon used as boiler make-up,
    which will~result in the reduction of fecal coliform as well as a
    reduction in the total volume of effluent discharge and total water
    usage~ ~
    •sand filter in the process cooling tower circuit is also
    beingInstalled.
    Experimentation
    is to be completed by March
    1,
    1973 andinstaflation of all new equipment to bring the operation
    into compliance will be installed by July 31, 1973.
    Petitioner represents that installation of chlorination facilities
    will cost in excess of $30,000.
    The Agency recommends the variance
    be denied unless the petitioner can demonstrate the experimental
    system can be successfully d~ve1opedand constructed by July
    31,
    1973,
    that the cost of interim chlorination will be unreasonable
    and that the granting of the variance will not have an adverse effect
    on the receiving stream.
    The Agency further recommends that in the
    event a variance is allowed that petitioner be obliged to submit
    bimonthly reports indicating its progress by July
    31, 1973,
    that
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    all plans be submitted, to the Agency for approval and that a
    performance bond be posted to assure compliance with Rule 405
    (Water Pollution)
    by July 31,
    1973.
    Hearing was held on the petition on December 14,
    1972.
    The record
    indicates that the principal source of the fecal count
    is from human
    sewage generated in the plant
    (R.
    728).
    A witness
    for Respondent
    described the program by which water would be reduced and re-cycled
    in both the cooling tower circuits and process operation.
    In addition,
    lagoon back—up water would be used as make—up water in the boiler
    systems.
    The water reduction program and the improved efficiency
    of the existing system appear to be successful.
    Lagoon water will
    be used as make—up water in the extraction plant cooling circuits.
    Lastly,
    if the foregoing program does not produce a satisfactory
    effluent, chlorination will be employed to bring the fecal coliform
    within satisfactory limits
    (R.
    56-58).
    In view of the program already in progress and the short remaining
    period in which petitioner represents
    it will be in compliance, we are
    disposed to allow the variance, subject to the conditions
    the Agency
    Suggests.
    This opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions of
    law of the Board.
    IT IS
    THE
    ORDER of the Pollution Control Board that variance is
    granted to Central Soya Company,
    Incorporated, until July 31,
    1973
    from the provisions of Rule 405, Water Pollution, subject to the
    following terms and conditions:
    1.
    Allengineering plans and specifications with respect to
    the proposed compliance program shall be approved by the
    Environmental Protection Agency.
    2.
    Bimonthly reports shall be submitted
    to the Agency indicating
    the progress that the Company has made in meeting its com-
    pliance schedule of July 31,
    1973,
    the first of which reports
    shall be received no later than February 15,
    1973.
    3.
    Bond in form satisfactory to the Agency in the amount of
    $50,000 shall be posted to guarantee modification of
    petitioner’s facilities pursuant to its compliance program
    as stated in the record,
    to be achieved by July 31,
    1973,
    Provision shall also be made in said bond for the forfeiture
    of
    $10,000, payable to the State of Illinois,
    in the event
    petitioner
    is not in compliance with Rule 405 (Water Pollu-
    tion) by said date.
    Bond
    shall b&±iledwith. Fiscal Services
    Division, Environmental Protection Agency,
    2200 Churchill
    Drive, Springfield,
    Illinois 62706,. within 30 days from the date
    hereof.
    I, Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pdllution Control Board,
    certify that the above Opinion and Order was adopted on the
    ~3&~’
    day of January,
    1973,
    by a vote of
    3
    to
    e~
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