ILLINOIS
    POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    December 16, 1993
    MUNICIPAL
    SOLID WASTE
    )
    LANDFILLS,
    )
    (Village of Winnetka•
    )
    Randolph County Landfill
    )
    Lawrence County Disposal
    Centre
    )
    city of Peru
    )
    Landfill 33, Ltd.
    -
    Ztfingham
    )
    City of Salem
    )
    Saline County Landfill
    )
    Jennings Brothers Landfill
    )
    Henry County Landfill
    )
    Pekin Metro Landfill
    )
    Ochs #1 and Ochs #2 Landfills
    )
    Carlinvil.e Landfill
    )
    City of Kewanee
    )
    Rochelle Municipal #2
    )
    Viola Landfill
    )
    Washington Landfill
    )
    Pike County Landfill
    )
    Berger Landfill
    )
    D & L Landfill
    )
    Oglesby Municipal Landfill
    )
    Winnebago Reclamation Service
    )
    Galva Municipal Landfill
    )
    Upper Rock Island Landfill
    )
    Dixon/Grop Landfill
    )
    Berger Landfill
    )
    Streator Area Landfill
    )
    Macon County Landfill
    )
    Knox County Landfill
    )
    Envirite/Livingston Landfill
    )
    Herrin Municipal Landfill
    )
    Land and Lake #3
    )
    Land and Lake/Dolton
    )
    Land and Lake #5 Wheeling
    )
    American Grading Co.
    )
    CDT Landfill Corp.
    )
    Mallard Lake Landfill),
    )
    )
    Petitioners,
    )
    V.
    P~B
    93—190
    (Variance)
    ILLINOIS
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by G. T. Girard):
    2
    This
    matter
    comes before the Board on the October 7, 1993
    petition for variance filed by the IEPA (Agency) on behalf of all
    municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLF) that qualify for the
    federal extensions
    set
    forth
    in 40
    CFR
    258.1(e) (2), and existing
    MSWLP units
    or lateral expansions thereof receiving flood-reitted
    -waste from federally designated disaster areas that are certified
    by the
    State
    as
    necessary
    for
    the
    flood-related clean-up of
    houshold vast,
    pursuant
    to 40 CFR 258.1(e) (3). The petition
    meek.
    relief
    from th. requirements of P.A. 88-496, Sections
    21(d)(1), 22.17(a)(5), (10),
    and
    22.17(b) from October 8, 1993
    until April 9, 1994.
    The amended petition filed October 20 identified 43
    landfills
    i.hich
    might be eligible for relief. ~ Pursuant
    to
    the
    Board’s
    order of October
    21, 1993, the 37 landfills named
    above
    affirmatively “opted in”
    as
    members of the petitioner class.
    Currently
    pending before the Board are two Agency motions.
    The first is the
    November
    12, 1993 motion to stay Board
    consideration of
    this
    petition pending gubernatorial action on
    Senate Bill 299. This motion is denied as moot, for reasons
    expressed
    below.
    The
    seCond
    pending motion, filed November 29, 1993, is the
    Agency’s
    motion to dismiss this entire matter as moot. No
    response
    hal been filed to this motion,
    which
    does indicate that
    each of the 37 landfills
    party
    to this action was properly
    served.
    The
    Agency’s
    motions recites
    that:
    During the recent legislative session the
    Legislature
    passed House Bill 299 which
    amended
    P.A.
    88—496 to sake
    the compliance
    deadline consistent with those contained
    in
    40
    C.P.R. 258. On November 16, 1993 Governor
    Edgar
    signed House Bill 299 enacting it into
    ~ As identified by
    the
    Agency, these are Western Lion
    Ltd.,
    Kewanee Municipal, Winnetka Municipal, Carlinville Landfill, 1:D&B
    Landfill,
    Viola
    Landfill, W.W. Sanitation, Illinois Landfill,
    Salem
    Municipal #2, Land &
    Lakes/Dolton, Jennings Brothers Landfill,
    Laidlaw—Belleville, Pekin
    Metro Landfill, K&H Landfill, Paxton
    Municipal, Berger Landfill,
    Pike
    County Landfill,
    Ilarisea
    Kunicipal,
    jlesby
    Municipal, Henry
    County Landfill, D&L
    Landfill,
    Streator Area Landfill, States Land Improvement,
    Dixon
    Municipal
    Group #2, LeRoy Brown & Sons, Grimm, Herrin Municipal Landfill,
    Woodford—llarshall
    Landfill,
    Whiteside County, Peoria
    Disposal Co.,
    Peru Municipal #2, Randolph County, Fulton County, Alton Municipal,
    Dowty,
    Landfill 33 Ltd.,
    Lake
    County Grading, Saline County,
    Laidlaw Waste Systems, and Rochelle Municipal #2.
    3
    law as Public Act 88—0512. The compliance
    deadlines contained in P.A. 88—0512 are
    consistent with those contained in
    40 C.F.R.
    258. The above-captioned matter would
    provide no.... additional relief to those
    -
    landfills which have petitioned to gain
    aflt..
    into the class and all issues raised
    tyiU
    above-captioned matter have
    been
    aade
    meot
    ~
    the enactment of P.A. 88—0512.
    Since no
    response to the Agency’s motion-bas~si*’eoeived,
    pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 101.241(b) ths
    Board*esmsa1l
    petitioner landfills to have waived objection *o*hs~rantiragof
    the Agency’s
    motion. The motion to
    dismiss this
    ~Ctt~
    ma aoot
    is
    hereby granted and the docket is closed.
    IT IS SO
    ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy H.
    Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    -Control
    Bo
    hereby certif that the a ye order wa,
    adopted :Ofl
    the
    ___
    day of
    L~-’~-~J-i-
    ,
    1993,
    by-awotsof
    _____________ .
    Dorothy H. G4n, Clerk
    Illinois P0 tion Control
    Board

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