ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
March
8,
1990
IN THE MATTER OF:
)
)
PETITION OF THE CITY OF
)
PERU FOR EXCEPTION TO
)
PCB 86-1
COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW
)
(CSO Exception)
REGULATIONS
)
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by J. Theodore Meyer):
This matter
is before the Board on a joint motion to modify
a Board
order,
filed
on
February
27,
1990 by the City
of
Peru
(Peru)
and the Illinois. Environmental Protection Agency (Agency).
Peru and the Agency ask the Board to modify its April
1, 1987 order
which
granted
Peru
a
temporary
exception
from
combined
sewer
overflow
(CSO)
regulations found at
35
Iii.
Adm. Code 306.305(a)
and
(b).
This order required Peru to file an amended petition for
permanent exception on or before March 1,
1990, after Peru gathered
“adequate
information”
on
the
environmental
impacts
of
the
overflows after Peru completed
its proposed
improvements
to
its
wastewater collection system and wastewater treatment plant.
The
Board’s order allowed two years for gathering this information on
environmental
impacts.
On
November
19,
1987,
the
Board
granted
Peru and the Agency’s joint motion for modification and extended
the construction deadline of July 1, 1988 to November
1,
1989.
The
instant
motion
states
that
Peru
completed
construction
of
the
improvements by that November 1 deadline, but points out that only
four months
have
passed
since
that
deadline.
Therefore,
Peru
points out that it cannot meet the Board’s desire for two years of
information on the environmental impacts.
Peru states that it has
diligently monitored its CSO5 and has submitted its report of that
monitoring to the Agency,
as required by the temporary exception.
Peru also notes that the Agency desires, and Peru agrees, that Peru
will
submit
a plan
of
study
for the CSO
post—operational
data
monitoring before March
5,
1990.
Therefore,
Peru and the Agency
ask the Board
to extend the date for filing an amended petition
until November
1,
1991,
to allow for the gathering of two years of
environmental information to support the amended petition.
The joint motion to modify the Board’s April
1,
1987 order is
granted.
Peru shall file its amended petition for exception on or
before November
1,
1991.
If the amended petition
is not filed by
November
1,
1991,
this
temporary
exception will
expire
on
that
date.
Additionally,
if
Peru
has not
already
done
so,
Peru
is
directed to submit its plan of study for the CSO post—operational
data monitoring to the Agency by March
19,
1990.
109—241
IT IS SO ORDERED.
J.D. Dumelle concurred.
I,
Dorothy
MAGUnn,
hereby cettify that the above Order was
adopted on the
‘~-~
day of
Y,’
~
,
1990,
by a vote
of
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Dorothy M. ;‘GUnn,
Clerk
Illinois Pollution Control Board
109—242