ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November

5,

1981

REILLY TAR

& CHEMICAL CORPORATION,

)

Petitioner,

PCB 81—166

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by

D, Anderson):

On October 26,

1981 Reilly Tar

& Chemical Corporation filed

a petition for a variance from Rule 702 of Chapter

3:

Water

Pollution,

the sewer discharge criteria for mercury.

Pending

before the Board is a proposal to modify Rule 702

(R76—21,

Second

Notice Order, August 20, 1981Y~ The proposal would change the

discharge standard to 0.003 mg/i under certain conditions which

may be applicable to Petitioner,

It

is possible that this will

he adopted and effective prior to final action on this variance

request.

The Board asks that Petitioner review the proposed rules

and indicate the effect on the variance request if adopted.

The

petition includes a waiver of hearing but not the affidavit

attesting to material facts required by Procedural Rule 401(h).

The matter will be subject to dismissal unless an amended petition

addressing the noted deficiency is

filed within 45 days of the

date of this Order.

The decision period

will

commence with the

filing of a sufficient amendment,

IT

IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan L,

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify

that

the above Order was adopj.ed on

the

~

day of

jJ-~-LL~.~

,

1981 by a vote of

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Christan L. Mof~ 1/, Clerk

Illinois

Pollutio4’x Control Board

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