ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

June 10, 1982

BEKER INDUSTRIES CORPORATION,

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 80—224

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY,

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by

I. Goodman)~

On June 1, 1982 Beker industries Corporation (Beker) filed

a motion requesting that the Board modify the final Opinion and

Order in this matter, eliminating the condition that its defluor—

ination facility not be activated until monitoring wells for

possible cooling pond seepage are installed. (See Paragraph 1(h)

of that Order), In its motion, Beker alleges that its defluor-

ination facility was activated in late February, 1980 with the

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency~s (Agency) knowledge

and, at that time, Beker and the /~gencyagreed that this process

caused no material increase of effluents discharged in violation

of its NPDES permit~

Furthermore, the Agency filed a response to Beker’s motion

on June 8, 1982 which states that seepage from the cooling pond

poses no imminent environmental harm. Since discharge from this

production process has been ongoing since early 1980 and the

Agency has concluded that its discharge contributes no imminent

environmental harm should seepage from the cooling pond occur,

Beker will not he required to cease operating its defluorination

facility.

Therefore, the language requiring Beker not to activate

the defluorination facility prior to installation of monitoring

wells, as contained in Paragraph 1(b) of the Order and on page

3 of the Opinion, is hereby vacated.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Board Member D. l~ndersondissented and Board Member J. ~nderson

concurred.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby ~ertify that the above Order was adopted

on the

~

day of

__________,

1982 by a vote of

6’

_______________

Cnristan L. Moffett, ~1~rk

Illinois Pollution Cthittrbl Board

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