ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September
    1,
    1994
    OLIN CORPORATION,
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 92—175
    (Permit Appeal)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by R.C.
    Flemal):
    On August 25,
    1994 pursuant to Board order, the parties
    filed
    a joint status report.
    This matter is an appeal by Olin
    Corporation
    (Olin)
    of the Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency’s
    (Agency) rejection of a clean closure plan for a waste
    cyanide storage area and a modified closure/post—closure plan for
    waste ballistics sand storage areas at Olin’s East Alton
    manufacturing facility.
    The parties report that they have been
    actively pursuing settlement and that they have agreed in
    principle to coordinate the closure of the ballistics sand
    storage units with the RCRA Facility Investigation planned as
    part of the facility’s RCRA Part B permit.
    The parties also
    state that pursuant to settlement discussions,
    on September 7,
    1993 Olin has submitted to the Agency a modified closure/post—
    closure plan for the ballistics storage areas.
    In previous status reports, the parties represented that a
    certificate of clean closure for the waste cyanide storage area
    was previously submitted to the Agency.
    The parties have
    recently realized that what was actually submitted was a request
    to accept clean closure of the cyanide storage area along with
    supporting documents.
    The Agency has reviewed and approved that
    request.
    Pursuant to that approval, Olin submitted a Closure
    Certification Statement to the Agency for the waste cyanide
    storage area on August 10,
    1994.
    The parties state that the
    Agency will approve the cyanide pad closure certification,
    subject to inspection.
    Inspection was conducted on August 18,
    1994 and the report has not yet been completed.
    The parties have agreed to the terms of a draft settlement
    letter, and are very close to final agreement.
    If agreement on
    closure of each unit is reached, Olin will move for dismissal of
    this matter.
    Olin also has waived the decision deadline until
    June
    1,
    1995.
    2
    The parties are ordered to file a status report in this
    matter on or before December 29,
    1994
    in the event this appeal
    has not been dismissed.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy N. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby cerjify that the above order was adopted on ~he
    /~
    day of
    y~/~t~_J
    ,
    1994, by a vote of
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    Drothy N. G~nn,Clerk
    /
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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