ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
June 3, 1999
OAKBROOK MAINTENANCE
COMPANY,
Petitioner,
v.
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY,
Respondent.
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PCB 99-179
(Provisional Variance - RCRA)
ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
On June 1, 1999, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) filed a
request for a provisional variance and notification of recommendation. The Agency
recommends that the Board grant a 30-day provisional variance. The provisional variance
would allow this DuPage County petitioner to continue accumulating hazardous waste for a
period in excess of 90 days. In making its recommendation, the Agency states that failure to
grant the requested provisional variance for
30
days will result in an arbitrary or unreasonable
hardship on the petitioner.
The Board is required, in a provisional variance, to adopt a formal order, assure formal
maintenance of the record, assure the enforceability of the variance, and provide notification
of the action by press release. Pursuant to Section 35(b) of the Environmental Protection Act
(415 ILCS 5/35(b) (1996)), the Board must issue the provisional variance within two days of
the filing. The Board grants the petitioner a provisional variance from the 90-day limitation on
the accumulation of hazardous wastes, as set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 722.134(b), for the
period from May 26, 1999, to June 25, 1999.
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.
I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby certify that
the above order was adopted on the 3rd day of 1999 by a vote of 7-0.
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Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
Illinois Pollution Control Board