ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June 21,
    1973
    LAKE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
    WORKS
    (GRANDWOOD
    PARK),
    Petitioner,
    vs.
    )
    PCB 73—139
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
    AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    Robert J. Degen for Petitioner
    Richard
    W. Cosby, Assistant Attorney General for the EPA
    OPINION
    AND ORDER
    OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Henss)
    Petitioner Lake County Department of Public Works operates
    a sewage treatment facility consisting of
    a contact stabilization
    package plant and tertiary lagoon at Grandwood Park,
    Illinois.
    Petitioner
    is required to meet an effluent standard of
    4 mg/i
    BOD and 5 mg/i suspended solids by December 31, 1973 under
    Rule 404(f)
    of Chapter
    3, Water Pollution Regulations.
    Monthly
    operational reports and Agency sampling indicate that BOD and
    suspended solids are now substantially above the Standard to be
    met.
    In an effort to meet the Standard, Petitioner has requested
    an EPA permit for expansion of
    the sewage treatment plant.
    The
    Project Completion Schedule establishes a completion date of
    June 1974
    for this facility rather than the December
    31, 1973
    deadline established by Rule 404(f).
    The Agency refused to
    approve the Project Completion Schedule since it did not meet the
    requirements of 404(f).
    Rule 921(d) of Chapter
    3 prohibits the issuance of a Construction
    Permit when a Project Completion Schedule has not been approved.
    Petitioner requests a variance from 921(d)
    so that the Construction
    Permit may issue.
    The Agency recommends grant of the variance since a denial
    would only delay the construction of needed sewage treatment
    plant improvements.
    We agree that the construction should proceed
    as quickly as possible,
    and therefore grant the variance.
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    357
    —2--
    ORDER
    For the purpose of proceeding rapidly with its construction
    of sewage treatment plant improvements Petitioner
    is granted a
    variance from the provisions
    of Rule
    921(d) of Chapter
    3, Water
    Pollution Regulations.
    I, Christan
    L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify the above Opinion and Order was adopted
    this
    ~/4~’
    day of June,
    1973 by a vote of
    4/
    to
    0
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