ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 4, 1999
    GALESBURG SANITARY DISTRICT,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 99-96
    (Provisional Variance - Water)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
    On February 2, 1999, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) filed a
    motion to “correct” the Board’s order of January 7, 1999 granting a provisional variance to
    the Galesburg Sanitary District. The Agency’s motion acknowledges that the Board’s order
    correctly incorporates the substance of the Agency recommendation. However, the Agency’s
    motion seeks to amend the Agency’s recommendation, and to have the Board order amended
    consistent therewith. The amendment involves specifying applicability of alternative effluent
    limits to discharges less than 22 million gallons per day (mgd) and adding a cap of 22 mgd to
    the wastewater treatment plant’s peak flow during the variance period.
    The motion is granted. For the parties’ convenience, the operative portion of the
    January 7, 1999 order as amended today is set out in its entirety below.
    The Board grants the petitioner a provisional variance from the limits for effluent
    discharges from its wastewater treatment plant as set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 304.141(a)
    and 304.207(a). The provisional variance shall begin when the first stage treatment is
    removed from service to effect repairs and shall expire on April 30, 1999, or after 45 days
    have elapsed, or when the repairs are completed and the biological process restored, whichever
    occurs first, subject to the following conditions:
    1.
    During the variance period, the effluent from petitioner’s wastewater treatment
    plant shall not exceed the concentrations of 40 milligrams/liter (mg/l) for
    carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand and 50 mg/l of total suspended solids
    as a monthly average limitation. Peak flow from the plant shall not exceed 22
    mgd.
    2.
    Petitioner shall notify Kenneth B, Newman of the Agency’s Peoria regional
    office by telephone at 309/693-5463 when it removes the first stage treatment
    from service, and when the first stage treatment is returned back to service.
    Written confirmation shall be sent within five days to the following address:
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    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Bureau of Water - Compliance Assurance Section
    Attention: Erin Rednour
    1021 North Grand Avenue East
    P.O. Box 19276
    Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
    3. Petitioner shall return the first stage treatment to service as expeditiously as
    possible and operate its wastewater treatment facility during the term of this
    variance in a manner that assures best effluent practicable.
     
    4. Petitioner shall continue to monitor and maintain compliance with all other
    parameters in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit No.
    IL0023141.
    5.
    Petitioner shall sign a certificate of acceptance of this provisional variance and
    forward that certificate to the Agency within ten days of the date of this order.
    The certification should take the following form:
    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 99-96 dated January 7, 1999, as
    amended February 4, 1999.
    ______________________________________
    Petitioner
    ______________________________________
    Authorized Agent
    ______________________________________
    Title
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    Date
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act (415 ILCS 5/41 (1996)) provides for
    the appeal of final Board orders to the Illinois Appellate Court within 35 days of service of this
    order. Illinois Supreme Court Rule 335 establishes such filing requirements. See 172 Ill. 2d
    R. 335; see also 35 Ill. Adm. Code 101.246, Motions for Reconsideration.
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    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby certify that
    the above order was adopted on the 4th day of Februry 1999 by a vote of 7-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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