ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    April
    8,
    1993
    MICRO SWITCH,
    )
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB 93—67
    )
    (Provisional Variance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J. C. Marlin):
    This matter comes before the Board on receipt of an Agency
    Recommendation dated April
    7,
    1993.
    The recommendation refers to
    a request from Petitioner, for a 15—day provisional variance for
    its Stephenson County facility from the 90—day limitation on the
    storage of hazardous wastes, as set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code
    722.134(b),
    for the period from March
    7 to March 21,
    1993.
    Upon receipt of the request,
    the Agency issued its
    recommendation,
    finding that due to unforeseen, temporary and
    uncontrollable circumstances, failure to grant the requested 15—
    day provisional variance would impose an arbitrary or
    unreasonable hardship on Petitioner.
    The responsibilities of the Agency and the Board in these
    short—term provisional variances are different from the
    responsibilities in standard variances.
    See 415 ILCS 5/35(b)
    &
    (c)
    (1992)
    (Ill.
    Rev.
    Stat.
    1991,
    ch.
    111½,
    pars.
    1035(b)
    &
    (c)).
    In provisional variances it is the responsibility of the Agency
    to make the technical determinations and finding of arbitrary or
    unreasonable hardship.
    The Board’s responsibility is to adopt a
    formal Order, to assure the formal maintenance of the record, to
    assure the enforceability of the variance, and to provide
    notification of the action by a press release.
    Having received the Agency recommendation finding that a
    denial of the requested relief would impose an arbitrary or
    unreasonable hardship, the Board hereby grants Petitioner a
    provisional variance from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 722.134(b)
    from March
    7 to March 21,
    1993.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
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    I, Dorothy H. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    do hereby~certifythat the above order was adopted by the
    Board on the
    ~
    day of ____________________________,
    1993,
    by a vote of
    ~
    .
    /
    ~
    ~~:/~J
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    ~Dorothy
    H. Gui~,Clerk
    Illinois Poll,ütion Control Board
    01141-01142

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