ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

April

14,

1977

UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY,

(VENICE POWER PLANT),

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 77—92

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr. Goodman):

Union Electric Company’s March

16,

1977 Petition for Rule

203(i) (5) Decision is hereby denied.

In an Order herein dated

July

8,

1976 the Board granted Union Electric Company variance

from the five-year delay prior to hearing required by Rule

203(i) (5)

.

The Board thus accepted the studies

submitted to

the Environmental Protection Agency

in January of 1976

as

Petitioner’s submission under Rule 203(1) (5).

There was at the

time of the variance herein no regulations promulgated for the

conduct of the mandatory hearing required under Rule 203(1) (5).

Such regulations have now been promulgated,

and the Board hereby

Orders that hearing be set

in this matter under Part VI

of the

Board’s Procedural Rules and said hearing shall be conducted

consistent with the variance granted on July

8,

1976.

Rule

604 of Part VI of the Board’s Procedural Rules

is hereby waived

in this matter.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I,

CIirist~iri L.

MoffeLt, Clerk of

th’

Illinois Pollution Control

Board,

hereby certify

the above Order was adopted on the

/~i

day

of______________

,

1977 by a vote of

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Christan

L.

Moffetk~J9~1erk

Illinois Pollution ~ntro1

Board

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