ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    October 7, 1999
    ENVIROFIL OF ILLINOIS, INC.,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 00-64
    (Provisional Variance - Water)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
    On
    October 5
    , 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 45-day
    provisional variance. The provisional variance would allow this McDonough County petitioner to discharge
    groundwater associated with a landfill into a unnamed tributary of the LaMoine River, pending approval of
    petitioner’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit for the landfill’s corrective action system, at
    petitioner’s facility located near Macomb, Illinois. In making its recommendation, the Agency states that failure to
    grant the requested provisional variance for
    45
    days will result in an arbitrary or unreasonable hardship on the
    petitioner.
    The Board grants the petitioner a provisional variance extension from the effluent discharge limits set
    forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 304.141(b). 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 (Act) (415 ILCS 5/35(b)
    (1998)), the Board must issue the provisional variance within two days of the filing.
    The provisional variance is granted, subject to the following conditions:
    1.
    The variance shall begin during 1999, on a date when groundwater from the groundwater
    corrective action system begins to be discharged from Stage #1 biofilter, and continue for 45
    days.
    2.
    Doing the provisional variance period, petitioner shall operate its treatment collection system in
    such a manner so as to produce the best effluent practicable. Petitioner shall meet the following
    limits from the discharge of Stage #1 biofilter, prior to discharge into biofilter #2:
    Effluent Limitations and Monitoring
    Concentration Limits mg/l
    30 day
    Daily
    Sample
    Sample
    Average
    Maximum
    Frequency
    Type
    Measure when monitoring
    BOD
    5
    10
    20
    3/week
    grab
    Total Suspended Solids
    12
    24
    3/week
    grab
    2
    Barium
    2.0
    4.0
    1/week
    grab
    Iron (dissolved)
    1.0
    1/week
    grab
    Manganese
    1.0
    1/week
    grab
    Chromium
    0.347
    2.0
    1/week
    grab
    Chloroethane
    1
    13
    1/week
    grab
    1,1 Dichloroethylane
    2
    20
    1/week
    grab
    1,2 Dichloroethylene
    1.1
    14
    1/week
    grab
    Trichloroethylene
    0.94
    12
    1/week
    grab
    Vinyl Chloride
    4
    40
    1/week
    grab
    Methylene Chloride
    1.4
    17
    1/week
    grab
    Ammonia (as N):
    April-October
    1.5
    8.3
    1/week
    grab
    November-March
    2.8
    9.8
    1/week
    grab
    In addition to the above limits, pH shall be sampled 1/week and shall be in the range of 6.0 to
    9.0. The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) identified above shall be sampled prior to the
    discharge. If VOCs are detected in the groundwater above the limits identified above, the
    petitioner shall not discharge as agreed to by the petitioner in its provisional variance request
    letter.
    3.
    Petitioner shall notify Lyle Ray of the Agency’s Peoria Regional Office by telephone at 309/693-
    5463 when the groundwater is discharged from Stage #1 biofilter and when the discharge is
    completed. Written confirmation of each notice shall be sent within five days to the following
    address:
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Bureau of Water, Compliance Assurance Section
    Attention: Mark T. Books
    1021 North Grand Avenue East
    P.O. Box 19276
    Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
    4.
    Petitioner shall sign a certificate of acceptance of this provisional variance and forward that
    certificate to Mark T. Books at the address indicated above within ten days of the date of this
    order. The certification should take the following form:
    CERTIFICATION
    I (We), _________________________________, hereby accept and agree to be
    bound by all terms and conditions of the order of the Pollution Control Board in PCB
    00-64 dated October 7, 1999.
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    Petitioner
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    Date
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act (415 ILCS 5/41 (1998)) 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 7th day of October 1999 by a vote of 6-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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