ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    November 10, 1976
    CITY OF STREATOR and YM-YWCA,
    Petitioners,
    v.
    )
    PCB 76—219
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr.
    Goodman):
    On August
    31,
    1976 the City of Streator and the YM-YWCA of
    Streator filed a request for variance from Rule
    602(d)
    (3)
    of Chapter
    3 of the Illinois Pollution Control Board Rules and Regulations
    to
    allow them to extend
    a sewer to the new YM-YWCA complex in Streator.
    The Agency recommendation herein was received October 12,
    1976,
    and
    no hearing was held in this matter.
    A letter was received from
    a
    citizen complaining that Streator does not enforce its ordinance pre-
    venting storm water from being drained by its sanitary sewers, but
    the complainant specifically stated that he had no objection to the
    YM-YWCA connecting its sewage to the City of Streator.
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    coristrue~
    th’
    P’I
    I
    ion
    ~c;
    h(’t
    ~iq
    ~in
    ovcral
    1
    city—wide
    variance
    for
    t:he
    City oi~
    Strvator
    Irom
    l~uI~
    1)02 (d)
    (
    3)
    coupled
    wi
    t.h
    a
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    ~or
    a
    van
    ~1RC(’
    t
    or
    I
    lie
    VM~YWCA eomplex.
    I~re~uminy
    that
    Streator did indeed request
    a general variance for the City,
    the
    Board finds that the request
    for variance
    is moot due to
    the
    promul-
    gation on September
    30,
    1976 of an amendment to Rule 602(d) (3)
    of
    the Water Pollution Regulations by the Board
    in R75—15.
    In the case
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    of
    the
    YM-YWCA,
    the Agency recommends
    that variance from Rule 962 of
    Chapter
    3 as
    it relates
    to Rule 602(c)
    and 602(d) (3)
    be granted
    provided the YM-YWCA apply for and obtain a construction permit.
    The
    Board finds
    no variance
    is necessary since the reasoning applied to
    the case of the City applies
    to the YM—YWCA as well.
    However,
    this
    finding does
    not,
    of course,
    release the YM-YWCA from the permit
    requirements.
    This Opinion constitutes
    the findings of fact and conclusions
    of law of the Board in this matter.
    ORDER
    It
    is the Order of the Pollution Control Board that:
    1.
    The
    Variance
    Petition
    of
    the
    City
    of
    Streator
    is
    denied
    as moot.
    2.
    The variance Petition by the YM-YWCA of the City
    of Streator
    is denied as moot.
    I,
    Christan
    L.
    Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify the abov
    Opinion and Order were adopted on
    the
    ___day ~
    ,
    1976 by
    a vote of~
    Christan
    Illinois Pollution
    rol Board
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