ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

September

4, 1980

CITY OF HERRIN,

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 80—146

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

)

Respondent.

ORDER OF

THE

BOARD

(by D. Satchel?):

On August

15, 1980 the Environmental Protection Agency

(Agency)

filed a motion to consolidate with PCB 80-145 this

petition for a variance from Rule 405 of Chapter

3:

Water

Pollution filed August

8,

1980 by the City of Herrin.

On August

18, 1980 Herrin filed a response in support of the Agency’s motion

but the Agency withdrew the motion in a letter received September

3,

1980.

Rule 405 sets a fecal coliform effluent standard of 400 per

100 ml.

The petition requests

a variance from Rule 405 in order

to obtain modification of municipal sewage discharge NPDES permit

No. IL 0029165, which requires monitoring of fecal coliform by

biological count.

Herrin prefers to monitor by measuring residual

chlorine levels following disinfection.

Rule 405 neither requires

monitoring by bacteria count nor prohibits monitoring by chlorine

residual.

Rule 910(f) establishes the Agency’s authority to require

monitoring.

Since the details are discretionary with the Agency,

Herrin should first apply to the Agency for permit modification.

Refusal to modify may be appealed pursuant to Part V of the Pro-

cedural Rules.

The petition is dismissed.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I,

Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Cont~ol

Board,

~her by certify that the above Order was adopted on the

‘I~~

day of~c.~l

j,

1980 by a vote of

~

Illinois Polluti.