LLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March 8, 1990
    IN THE MATTER OF:
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    PETITION OF THE CITY OF
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    PERU FOR EXCEPTION TO
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    PCB 86-1
    COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW
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    (CSO Exception)
    REGULATIONS
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    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by J. Theodore Meyer):
    This matter is before the Board on a joint motion to
    modify a Board order, filed on February 27, 1990 by the City
    of Peru (Peru) and the Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency (Agency). Peru and the Agency ask the Board to modify
    its April 1, 1987 order which granted Peru a temporary
    exception from combined sewer overflow (CSO) regulations found
    at 35 Ill. Adm. Code 306.305(a) and (b). This order required
    Peru to file an amended petition for permanent exception on or
    before March 1, 1990, after Peru gathered "adequate
    information" on the environmental impacts of the overflows
    after Peru completed its proposed improvements to its
    wastewater collection system and wastewater treatment plant.
    The Board's order allowed two years for gathering this
    information on environmental impacts. On November 19, 1987,
    the Board granted Peru and the Agency's joint motion for
    modification and extended the construction deadline of July 1,
    1988 to November 1, 1989. The instant motion states that Peru
    completed construction of the improvements by that November 1
    deadline, but points out that only four months have passed
    since that deadline. Therefore, Peru points out that it
    cannot meet the Board's desire for two years of information on
    the environmental impacts. Peru states that it has diligently
    monitored its CSOs and has submitted its report of that
    monitoring to the Agency, as required by the temporary
    exception. Peru also notes that the Agency desires, and Peru
    agrees, that Peru will submit a plan of study for the CSO
    post-operational data monitoring before March 5, 1990.
    Therefore, Peru and the Agency ask the Board to extend the
    date for filing an amended petition until November 1, 1991, to
    allow for the gathering of two years of environmental
    information to support the amended petition.
    The joint motion to modify the Board's April 1, 1987
    order is granted. Peru shall file its amended petition for
    exception on or before November 1, 1991. If the amended
    petition is not filed by November 1, 1991, this temporary
    exception will expire on that date. Additionally, if Peru has
    not already done so, Peru is directed to submit its plan of
    study for the CSO post-operational data monitoring to the
    Agency by March 19, 1990.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    J.D. Dumelle concurred.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, hereby certify that the above Order
    was adopted on the _______ day of _________________, 1990, by
    a vote of _______.
    ______________________________
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control
    Board

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