ILU
    NOlS
    POLT~U
    TI ON
    CONTROL
    BOAPD
    May
    18,
    1984
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Complainant,
    v.
    )
    PCB 83—40
    OAKBROOK UTILITY
    COMPANY,
    INC.,
    an Illinois corporation,
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by W.
    J.
    Nega):
    On April
    27,
    1984,
    the Respondent filed a Petition to Modify
    the Board’s Order of March
    21,
    1984 in PCB 83—40.
    The Respondent
    has requested that the Board extend
    the
    timetable for compliance
    which was originally agreed to
    by
    the parties
    in
    their StipulatLor~
    to allow the Respondent additional time to investigate the feasi-
    bility of establishing a homeowners’
    association to own, operate,
    and control its sewer system and to provide extra time in which
    to submit the necessary engineering plans and specifications for
    the proposed connection of the sewer system to the City of
    Carlinville’s wastewater treatment plant.
    On May 5,
    1984,
    the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency)
    filed its Response to the Modification Petition which
    indicated that “the modifications suggested by Respondent are
    acceptable to the Agency”.
    The Respondent’s motion for modification is hereby granted.
    Accordingly, the Board will modify its Order of March 21,
    1984 by
    adding items
    5,
    6,
    7,
    and
    B to page five et seq~of that Order as
    follows:
    5.
    Paragraph B(1) of the Stipulation
    and
    Proposal
    for
    Settlement filed
    on
    September
    9,
    1983 which is incorporated in
    this Order shall be modified to read as follows:
    The Respondent and any homeowners’ association formed by the
    residents of the Oakbrook 5th and 6th Additions shall develop a
    proposal by September 1,
    1984 for the connection of the sewer
    system serving the Oakbrook 5th and 6th Additions to the City of
    Carlinville’s wastewater treatment plant and submit a construc-
    tion/operation permit application, with the appropriate engineer-
    ing plans and specifications,
    to the Agency.
    The Respondent
    shall
    include a description of its plan for the disposition of
    the
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    existing lagoon system as part of its construction/operation
    permit application to the Agency.
    If this lagoon system is to be
    abandoned,
    the plan shall describe the processes to be used in
    draining
    the
    lagoons,
    stablilizing
    the
    bottoms, disposing of
    sludge, and grading.
    6.
    Paragraph B(3)
    of
    the
    Stipulation
    and
    Proposal for
    Settlement
    filed on September
    9,
    1983
    which
    is
    incorporated
    in
    this Order
    shall be modified to read as follows:
    The Respondent shall complete construction as expeditiously
    as possible,
    hut no later than September
    1,
    1985.
    The Respondent
    shall provide optimum operation and maintenance of the lagoon
    system until the connection to the City of Carlinville’s wastewater
    treatment plant is made.
    7.
    Paragraph B(4) of the Stipulation and Proposal for
    Settlement filed on September
    9,
    1983 which is incorporated in
    this Order shall be modified to read as
    follows:
    Operation of the connection
    to
    the City of Carlinvill&s
    wastewater treatment plant shall commence no later than October
    1~
    1985.
    8.
    If a change in the ownership of the Oakbrook Utility
    from its present owners to a homeowners’ association is arranged~
    the transfer should acknowledge the responsibility of the home-
    owners’ association to carry out the provisions of the Board’s
    March 21,
    1983 Order in PCB 83—40,
    as modified by the addition of
    items
    5,
    6,
    7, and
    8 on page five et seq.
    of the Order and the
    compliance plan set forth in the Stipulation and Proposal
    for
    Settlement filed on September
    9,
    1983 and any Board—approved
    modifications thereof.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board, hereby certify that the above Order was adopted
    on
    theJj~dayof’~,
    1984 by a vote ~
    U
    Illinois Pollution
    Board
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