ILLINOIS
    POLLUTION
    CONTROL
    BOARD
    April
    3,
    1980
    VILLAGE OF RANTOTJL,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB
    80—34
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    ORDER
    OF THE BOARD
    (by Dr. Satchell):
    On February
    15, 1980 the Village
    of Rantoul filed a petition
    requesting
    a variance from the manifest requirements
    of Chapter
    9:
    Special Waste Hauling Regulations.
    The requested variance would
    cover sludge generated by lIme softening of well water and sewage
    sludge generated by Rantoul’s water softening plant and Eastside
    sewage treatment plant.
    On March
    13,
    1980 the Environmental Pro-
    tection Agency
    (Agency) recommended that the variance be granted
    with conditions,
    No hearing was held and the Board has received
    no public comment.
    The petition requests a variance only from Rule 501 which
    specifies the form of manifests.
    A meaningful variance would also
    have to take into account Rules
    301 and 302 which proscribe delivery
    and acceptance of special wastes without a manifest.
    Rule 211(C) provides
    an exemption from Chapter
    9 for persons
    who haul only municipal water or wastewater treatment plant sludge
    pursuant to established Agency policy.
    The Rule 211 exemptions
    are provided for special waste haulers
    who are subject to current
    statutory or regulatory guidelines
    (R76-10,
    33 PCB 131,
    155,
    March
    15, 1979).
    The petition contains no discussion of why the exemp-
    tion is inaoplicable.
    The Board does not generally grant variances
    where no rule is violated or where relief is available from the
    Agency.
    The variance petition is dismissed without prejudice.
    IT IS SO ORDEPED.
    —2—
    I, Christan L.
    Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Contro1~~ard,hereby cer ify the above Order was ado ted on
    the
    3
    day of
    ____________,
    1980 by a vote of
    ~
    Christan L.
    Mof.
    EtJ~,)
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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