ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August
    22,
    1991
    CITY OF GALVA,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 91—145
    (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 August 21,
    1991.
    The recommendation refers
    to a request from Petitioner, City of Galva,
    for a provisional
    variance from the ammonia nitrogen
    (NH3), biochemical oxygen
    demand (CBOD5), and suspended solids
    (TSS) effluent requirements,
    as set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 304.120(c),
    304.122, and
    304.141(a),
    for the period from when the Petitioner begins
    bypassing the first treatment unit tank, and continuing until the
    Petitioner returns the last treatment tank to service, but not
    for longer than 45 days.
    The Agency recommends that the Board grant the requested
    provisional variance with specified conditions.
    The Agency
    agrees that the repairs are necessary.
    The Agency anticipates
    that the requested provisional variance would have minimal
    environmental impact on the receiving stream.
    The Agency is
    unaware of any public water supplies that the requested
    provisional variance would adversely impact.
    The Agency
    maintains that a grant of a provisional variance would violate no
    federal laws.
    The Agency finds that a denial of the requested
    provisional variance would create an arbitrary and unreasonable
    hardship on the Petitioner.
    The responsibilities of the Agency and the Board in these
    short—term provisional variances are different from the
    responsibilities in standard variances.
    See 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 requested relief would impose an arbitrary and
    unreasonable hardship, the Board hereby grants Petitioner a
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    provisional variance from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 304.120(c),
    304.122,
    and
    304.. 141(a), on the following conditions:
    1.
    The term of this provisional variance shall commence
    when the Petitioner,
    City of Galva,
    initiates bypassing its
    first treatment tank unit,
    and it shall expire on the date
    the Petitioner returns the last treatment tank unit to
    service, or after 45 days have elapsed, whichever comes
    first;
    2.’
    During the term of this provisional variance,
    the
    ef?luent from the Petitioner’s treatment plant shall not
    exceed concentrations of 3.0 xng/l NH3
    (daily maximum
    concentration or 20mg/i CBOD5 or 25 mg/i TSS
    (each on a
    monthly average basis);
    3.
    The Petitioner shall notify Todd Hudson of the Agency’s
    Peoria Regional office by telephone,
    at 309—693—5463, •when
    it begins bypassing its first wastewater treatment plant
    unit and when it returns the last treatment unit to service,
    and the Petitioner shall confirm this notice in writing
    within five days,
    addressed as follows:
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Division of Water Pollution Control
    Compliance Assurance Section
    2200 Churchill Road
    P.O. Box 19276
    Springfield, Illinois
    62794—9276
    Attention:
    Mark T.
    Books
    4.
    The Petitioner shall perform the necessary maintenance
    and modification work and expeditiously as possible and
    operate its plant during the term of this provisional
    variance in a manner that assures the best effluent
    practicable; and
    5.
    The Petitioner shall execute a copy of a Certificate of
    Acceptance of this provisional variance and forward that
    copy to the Agency addressed as
    is the written notice
    required in the above condition; the Petitioner shall
    forward that copy within 10 days of the date of this Order
    of the Board,
    and the Certificate of Acceptance shall take
    the following form:
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    CERTIFICATION
    I
    (We),
    hereby accept and agree to be bound by all terms
    and conditions of the Order of the Pollution
    Control Board in PCB 91—145, August 22,
    1991.
    Petitioner
    Authorized Agent
    Title
    Date
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    J.D. Dumelle and B.
    Forcade concurred.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Bo~rd,do hereby 9~rtifythat the above Order was adopted on the
    ~
    day of
    ,/~7
    ,
    1991,
    by a vote of
    ______
    d
    ~borothyM.,Øunn,
    Clerk
    Illinois PSllution Control Board
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