ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    July 30,
    1992
    WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    V.
    )
    PCB 92—114
    )~
    (Provisional Variance)
    )
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J.
    C. Marlin):
    This matter comes before the Board upon receipt of an Agency
    Recommendation dated July 22,
    1992.
    The recommendation refers to
    a request from Petitioner,
    Waste Management of Illinois for a
    30
    day provisional variance for its Cook County facility from the 90—
    day on-site limit~tionsfor hazardous wastes set forth in 35
    Ill.
    Adm. Code 722.134(b).
    Upon
    receipt
    of
    the
    request
    the
    Agency
    issued
    its
    recommendation,
    finding that the hazardous wastes must remain on-
    site
    for
    longer
    than
    90
    days due to unforeseen,
    temporary and
    uncontrollable circumstances and failure to grant the requested 30-
    day provisional variance would impose an. arbitrary or unreasonable
    hardship on Petitioner.
    The responsibilities
    of the Agency
    and the Board
    in
    the~se
    short—term
    provisional
    variances
    are
    different
    from
    the
    responsibilities in standard variances.
    ~
    Ill. Rev.
    Stat. 1989,
    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
    request
    relief
    would
    impose
    an
    arbitrary
    and
    unreasonable
    hardship
    the
    Board
    hereby
    grants
    Petitioner
    a
    provisional variance from 35 Ill.
    Adin.
    Code 722.134(b) from July 8,
    1992 to August
    7,
    1992.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    0135-0203

    —2—
    I,
    Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk
    of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certif
    hat the above order was adopted on the
    ~Ci.
    day of
    ___________________,
    1992, by a vote of
    ~
    ~
    ~N
    Dorothy M. G4n, Clerk
    Illinois P0LAition
    Control Board
    0135 -02014

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