ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL
    BOARD
    December 20,
    1990
    ALLIED-SIGNAL INC.,
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 88—172
    (Variance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by N. Nardulli):
    This matter comes before the Board on a two separate motions
    entitled
    “Joint
    Motion
    for
    Modification
    of Variance”
    filed
    on
    November
    19,
    1990
    and November
    28,
    1990 by petitioner Allied-
    Signal
    Inc.
    (Allied)
    and
    respondent
    Illinois
    Environmental
    Protection Agency
    (Agency).
    By the November 19,
    1990 motion, the parties seek to modify
    conditions 2 and Sb of the Board’s order granting Allied a variance
    from the arsenic effluent limitation set forth at 35 Ill. Adm. Code
    304.124 until February
    17,
    1991.
    The parties are not seeking an
    extension of
    the
    termination date
    of the
    variance.
    In their
    motion,
    the parties seek to extend the due—date for submittal of
    an engineering evaluation of the treatability of hexafluoroarsenate
    from November 17,
    1990 as required by condition 2
    of the variance
    order to November 28, 1990.
    This report was filed on November 28,
    1990.
    The Board accepts the filing of this report and the variance
    condition is modified accordingly.
    The parties also seek modification
    of condition Sb of the
    variance which provides:
    If the LCSO of hexafluoroarsenate is less than
    25
    times higher than the LC5O of pentavalent
    arsenic oxide as determined under
    (a)
    above,
    petitioner shall perform a Phase II early life
    stage
    (28
    days
    post-hatch)
    bioassay
    of the
    chronic
    toxicity
    and
    bioaccumulations
    potential
    of
    hexafluoroarsenate.
    The
    test
    shall be performed as a single, combined test
    of
    both
    the
    chronic
    and
    bioaccumulative
    effects
    of
    a
    prepared
    effluent
    sample
    on
    minnows.
    The prepared effluent sample should
    be
    made
    up
    of
    concentrations
    of
    potassium
    hexafluoroarsenate
    and
    pentavalent
    arsenic
    oxide
    in
    a ratio that is consistent with the
    ratio
    of hexafluoroarsenate and conventional
    arsenic
    forms
    in the effluent from Allied’s
    final
    outfall
    002.
    These
    samples
    should
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    include one at the arsenic levels found in the
    actual
    effluent
    002,
    and
    at
    5
    times
    that
    level, and one at 10 times that level.
    The parties ask that condition 5b be modified to provide for
    a
    “seven day static test” rather than
    a 28 day test and that Allied
    be required to test concentrations of hexafluoroarsenate alone,
    rather
    than
    testing
    of
    both
    hexafluoroarsenate
    and
    more
    conventional
    arsenic
    forms
    in
    the
    same
    ratio
    as
    found
    in the
    effluent in Allied’s facility.
    The parties propose the following
    modification to condition 5b:
    If the LC5O of hexafluoroarsenate is less than
    25 times higher than the LC5O of pentavalent
    arsenic oxide
    as determined under
    (a)
    above,
    petitioner shall perform a Phase II seven day
    static
    test
    of
    chronic
    toxicity
    of
    hexafluoroarsenate
    to
    minnows,
    this
    test
    should be performed be evaluating the chronic
    effects on minnows of hexafluoroarsenate at a
    dilution series based on known acute toxicity
    levels.
    The
    results
    shall
    be expressed as
    Maximum
    Acceptable
    Toxicant
    Concentration
    (MACT)
    *
    The
    Board
    finds
    that
    the
    “seven—day
    static
    test”
    is
    an
    acceptable replacement to the 28-day test currently provided for
    in the variance.
    The Board notes that the correct terminology of
    this test is a “seven—day static renewal test” because the toxicant
    concentration is renewed each day of the test so that the fish are
    exposed to the
    same amount of toxicant over the seven—day test
    period.
    Regarding the proposed deletion of the bioaccumulative
    test,
    the Board believes that
    such testing using the seven-day
    static
    renewal test would not be able to provide information on
    bioaccuiaulative potential.
    The record indicates that the chemical
    nature of potassium hexafluoroarsenate is such that it is unlikely
    to bioaccumulate and
    is different from organic contaminants that
    accumulate fatty tissue.
    (R. 26-27.)
    The Board believes that, in
    lieu
    of
    testing,
    the
    bioaccumulation
    potential
    of
    hexafluoroarsenate
    should
    be estimated by using the regression
    equation
    based
    on
    the
    compound’s
    octanol—water
    partition
    coefficient prescribed at 35111. Adm. Code 302.663(c).
    Therefore,
    condition Sb is modified as follows:
    If the LC5O of hexafluoroarsenate is less than
    25 times higher than the LC5O of pentavalent
    arsenic oxide
    as determined under
    (a)
    above,
    petitioner shall perform a Phase
    II bioassay
    using
    a seven—day static renewal test of the
    chronic
    toxicity
    of
    hexafluoroarsenate
    to
    minnows.
    This
    test should
    be performed by
    evaluating the chronic effects on minnows of
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    3
    hexafluoroarsenate
    using
    a
    dilution
    series
    based
    on
    final
    effluent
    concentrations
    and
    known
    acute
    toxicity
    levels,
    the
    results
    shall
    be
    expressed
    as
    Maximum
    Acceptable
    toxicant
    Concentrations
    (MACT).
    The
    bioaccumulation
    potential
    of
    hexafluoroarsenate shall be estimated
    by calculating the bioconcentration factor in
    accordance with 35
    Ill. Adm. Code 302.663 (c).
    The Board now addresses the parties motion for modification
    filed
    November
    28,
    1990.
    By
    this
    motion,
    the
    parties
    seek
    modification of condition
    3 of the variance order requiring that
    Allied submit its petition for an extension of variance no later
    than October 20,
    1990.
    The parties seek to modify that condition
    to extend the deadline for filing the petition for extension of
    variance to and including December
    31,
    1990.
    The parties state
    that such an extension is needed to allow the Agency to review the
    engineering evaluation report discussed above.
    The Agency expects
    to complete this review and provide guidance to Allied by December
    21,
    1990.
    The requested extension will allow Allied ten days to
    file its petition for extension if needed.
    The Board
    finds
    that the parties have presented adequate
    support for their request
    for modification of the deadline for
    filing any petition
    for extension of
    variance.
    Condition
    3
    is
    modified to allow Allied
    to
    file
    its petition for extension of
    variance no later than December 31,
    1990.
    Lastly,
    the
    Board
    must
    address
    Allied’s
    claim
    that
    its
    engineering evaluation report is a trade secret under 35 Ill. Adin.
    Code 120.201(a).
    In accordance with 35 Ill.
    Adin.
    Code 120.203,
    Allied submitted a limited waiver of statutory deadline.
    The Board
    is unsure as to what statutory deadline Allied is waiving since
    this
    is
    a motion for modification to which no deadline applies.
    The Board will proceed to treat Allied’s engineering evaluation
    report as confidential in accordance with the procedures found at
    35 Ill. Adm.
    Code Part 120, Subpart C pending Allied’s submittal
    of a statement of justification as set forth at 35 Ill. Adm. Code
    120.202.
    Allied is directed to file its statement of justification
    with the Board no later than January
    7,
    1991.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy N.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the illinois Pollution Control
    Board hereby ce tify that the above Order was adopted on the
    cZO~
    day of
    ________________
    ,
    1990 by a vote of
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    ~
    A.
    ~
    Dorothy M.~unn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
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