ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 25,
    1988
    IN THE MATTER OF
    )
    CENSUS OF SOLID WASTE
    )
    R88—8
    MANAGEMENT FACILITIES EXEMPT
    )
    FROM THE PERMIT REQUIREMENT
    )
    AS PROVIDED IN SECTr0N 21(d)
    )
    OF TRF
    A(~91
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J.
    Anderson):
    The Board,
    in its R88—7
    First Notice proposal adopted
    this
    same day,
    ha-s proposed comprehensive design, performance and
    reporting requirements
    for all landfills,
    including those on—site
    “Section 21(d)” facilities exempt from the requirement
    to have
    a
    permit.
    The record developed in the predecessor Docket R84—17
    (as well as
    in R84—22, Performance Bonds)
    highlight
    a problem
    which could not be addressed
    in those dockets:
    the undisputed
    fact that the Agency lacks even the most fundamental
    information
    regarding the location of permit—exempt on—site operations as
    well as the type of non—hazardous waste which they treat,
    store,
    or dispose.
    The Board believes that its regulatory activities,
    as well
    as the environmental oversight responsibilities of the
    Agency, would be enhanced by a “census” of such facilities.
    The
    Board has chosen
    to use the term “census”
    to distinguish
    such
    information from the comprehensive reporting requirements
    proposed for landfills.
    This Docket is accordingly opened for the purpose of
    directing the staff of the Board
    to prepare
    a draft census
    proposal
    in proper regulatory format.
    Staff
    is directed to
    consider,
    and develop for inclusion,
    as appropriate, definitions
    and response requirements sufficient to elicit basic information
    including:
    1)
    The location of the “on—site” operation;
    2)
    The identity of the person whose wastes are stored,
    treated, or disposed within the site where such wastes
    are generated;
    3)
    The type of waste generated;
    4)
    Whether
    the “on—site” operation is
    a waste—storage,
    waste—treatment or waste—disposal operation;
    5)
    The period of time the operation has been conducted;
    and
    86—843
    —2—
    6)
    The
    identification of permits
    (e.g. NPDES permits),
    it
    any, issued by the Agency related
    to the conduct of the
    operation.
    The Board has no information leading
    it
    to believe that
    providing such information would
    be technically infeasthle or
    econoTnically unreasonable.
    In any event,
    the Board
    believes it
    should consider proposing such
    a census requirement.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy
    M.
    Gunn, Clerk of the IllinoisPollution Control
    Board, hereby certif
    that the above Order was adopted on
    the
    5~day of
    ~
    1988,
    by a vote of
    7-
    DorothyM. Gunn,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    86—844

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