ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August
    5,
    1982
    VILLAGE OF FRANKLIN GROVE,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB 82—95
    PROVISIONAL VARIANCE
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
    )
    AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    DISSENTING OPINION (by J.D. Dumelle):
    My reason for dissenting lies with the apparent inadequate
    consideration by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency of
    the effects,
    if any, of this undisinfected sewage plant effluent
    upon public health.
    Franklin Grove’s discharge eventually flows to the Rock
    River.
    The river mile distance to the Rock River is not given
    and thus the die—off of the pathogenic organisms cannot be
    computed.
    Since the Rock River,
    as we know from the record
    in R77—12
    (Docket D) has waterskiing activities upon it we do
    not know here if that portion of the public is at risk from this
    proposed discharge.
    The Legislature has said that the Board should perform
    essentially a ministerial act and approve all provisional
    variances within two days of IEPA notification to it.
    The Board
    has previously rejected a provisional variance on other grounds
    (SCA Chemical Services, Inc.
    V.
    IEPA, PCB 82—60, May
    4,
    1982).
    Thus the Board’s actions on provisional variances are not neces-
    sarily purely ministerial.
    Because of possible
    I, Christan L.
    Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board, herqb~certifythat the abpve Dissenting Opinion
    was filed on the
    (,
    day of
    ,
    1982.
    Chris
    Illinois Pollutio
    ontrol Board
    lth I dissent.
    47-513

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