ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

April 21, 1988

CITY OF CENTRALIA,

Petitioner,

v.

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PCB 88—73

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by

~J.D.

Dumelle):

This matter comes before the Board upon the April 20, 1988,

petition for provisional variance filed by Petitioner, the City

of Centralia, and Agency Recommendation filed by Respondent,

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency). The petition

for Provisional Variance seek provisional variance from NPDES

effluent limitations for BOD, TSS and Fecal Coliform while

construction work is performed. Petitioner is presently required

by a NPDES permit to meet monthly average effluent limitations of

10 mg/i BOD and 12 mg/tss for effluent. The daily maximum for

fecal coliform may not exceed 400/100 ml.

Respondent, IEPA, has found that compliance with the NPDES

permit effluent limitation would impose an arbitrary or

unreasonable hardship on Petitioner and recommends that

Petitioner be granted the requested provisional variance subject

to the conditions set forth below.

The Board hereby grants Petitioner the requested variance

subject to the conditions set forth below:

1. This variance shall commence on May 2, 1988 and

continue for 45 days or until the filters are placed

back in service, whichever occurs first.

2. During the variance period, Petitioner shall collect

samples and analyze them for BOD and TSS at the

frequency required in the NPDES permit. These results

along with the daily flow shall be recorded and

submitted to Specialist Barb Conner of the Agency’s

Compliance Assurance Section within 10 days of the end

of the variance period at the following address:

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Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

Division of Water Pollution Control

Compliance Assurance Section

2200 Churchill Road

P.O. Box 19276

Springfield, IL 62794—9276

3. Petitioner shall notify Barb Conner via telephone at

217/782—9720 when the filters are removed from service

and when they are returned to service. Each telephone

notification shall be confirmed within 5 days with a

written notice sent to Barb Conner at the address given

above.

4. During the variance period, Petitioner shall meet

effluent limits of 25 mg/l for BOD and TSS as monthly

averages and have no fecal coliform limit.

5. Petitioner shall return the filters and chlorination

equipment to service as quickly as possible and shall

provide the best treatment practicable during the

variance period.

6. Within 10 days of the date of the Board’s Order,

Petitioner shall execute a Certificate of Acceptance

and Agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions

of this variance which shall be sent to Mark T. Books

at the address indicated above.

This variance shall be void if Peitioner fails to

execute and forward the certificate within the ten day

period. The ten day period shall be held in abeyance

during any period that this matter is being appealed.

The form of said Certification shall be as follows:

CERTIFICATION

I, (We), City of Centralia, having read the Order of the

Illinois Pollution Control Board, in PCB 88—73, dated April 21,

1988, understand and accept the said Order, realizing that such

acceptance renders all terms and conditions thereto binding and

enforceable.

Petitioner

By: Authorized Agent

Title

Date

8 8—338

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Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act, Ill. Rev.

Stat. 1985 ch. 111 1/2 par. 1041, provides for appeal of final

Orders of the Board within 35 days. The Rules of the Supreme

Court of Illinois establish filing requirements.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereby certify that the above O~iniopand Order was

adopted on the

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day of ~

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1988 by a vote

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Dorothy M. G n, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board

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