ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 17,
    1977
    THE FLINTKOTE COMPANY,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB 76—218
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    Mr. Edward Benecki
    of Gosnell,
    Benecki, Borden
    & Enloe,
    Ltd.
    ,
    appeared
    on behalf of the Flintkote Company;
    Mr. Robert
    D.
    Barewin and Mr.
    Murl
    C.
    Teske, appeared on behalf of
    the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
    OPINION
    AND
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Goodman):
    This matter is before the Board upon a Petition for Extension
    of Variance by the Flintkote Company
    (Flintkote)
    for its felt mill
    in
    Mt.
    Carmel, Wabash County,
    Illinois.
    The previous variance was
    granted in PCB 75-381 by an Opinion and Order of the Board dated
    January
    8,
    1976 and modified February
    19,
    1976.
    The Illinois Environ-
    mental Protection Agency
    (Agency)
    filed an Objection
    to the Petition
    for Variance on September
    13,
    1976 and filed a Recommendation October
    26,
    1976.
    Hearing was held
    in the matter on December 14,
    1976.
    No
    public
    comment
    has
    been
    received by
    the
    Board.
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    not
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    in
    this Opinion.
    Generally,
    Flintkote
    is
    in the process
    of implementing
    a total recycle system in lieu of its prior discharge
    to the Wabash River.
    Flintkote originally discharged
    500,000-700,000
    gallons per day of effluent, adding 3600 pounds of BOD5 and 4000
    pounds per day of suspended solids to the Wabash River.
    Presently
    Flintkote
    is
    discharging on the average about 17,200 gallons per day
    containing about 44 pounds per day of suspended solids and 760 pounds
    per day of BOD~.
    In
    the variance granted
    in
    PCB 75-381 Flintkote was
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    to cease all discharges other than non—contact cooling water on or
    before September
    1,
    1976.
    Due to additional equipment found necessary
    subsequent to the Board Order in PCB 75-381 and the inability of the
    Envirex Company
    to supply a rake mechanism previously ordered, Flint—
    kote now proposes a time schedule for bringing the plant into com-
    pliance at zero discharge which calls for a January
    1,
    1977 completion
    date and a February 28,
    1977 final evaluation date of the system.
    In
    addition Flintkote requests much wider limitations be set on its
    effluent since it has been unable to meet the effluent limitations set
    by the Board in PCB 75-381.
    The Board finds from the evidence that Flintkote has proceeded in
    good faith in this matter.
    It is acknowledged that this is an experi-
    mental
    installation which Flintkote has pursued slowly but with great
    care.
    The Board will accept the delay in the final execution of the
    zero discharge process due to
    a change in design subsequent to the
    compliance dates set by the Board in PCB 75-381 and the delay
    in
    delivery of equipment.
    The variance in PCB 75—381 will, therefore,
    be extended until March 1,
    1977, with certain minor modifications.
    This Opinion constitutes the findings of facts and conclusions
    of law of the Board
    in this matter.
    ORDER
    It
    is the Order of the Pollution Control Board that the Flintkote
    Company be granted variance for its discharge of process waters at the
    Mt. Carmel facility from Section 12(a)
    of the Environmental Protec-
    tion Act as
    it relates to BOD and suspended solids standards,
    from
    Rule 404(a),
    and from Rule 408(a)
    of the Board’s Water Pollution Control
    Regulations as
    it pertains to cyanide, until March
    1,
    1977, subject to
    the conditions imposed by the Board Order of January
    8, 1976 as modi-
    fied by the Board Order of February 19, 1976 in PCB 75—381, except:
    paragraph
    1(c)
    is hereby modified as follows:
    (ii)
    50 pounds per day of suspended solids as
    a daily average
    and
    Within 35 days after the date of the Board Order herein the
    Petitioner shall execute and forward to both the Illinois Environ-
    mental Protection Agency, 2200 Churchill Road, Springfield,
    Illinois
    62706 and the Pollution Control Board a Certification of Acceptance
    and agreement to be bound to all terms and conditions of this Opinion
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    and Order.
    The form of said certification shall be as follows:
    CERTIFICATION
    I
    (We)
    ,
    _______________________________________having
    read and fully
    understanding the Order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board in
    PCB 76-218 hereby accept said Order and agree to be bound by all of the
    terms and conditions thereof.
    SIGNED__________________________________
    TITLE___________________________________
    DATE_______________________________________
    Mr. Young abstained.
    I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    hereby certify the above Opinion and Order were ado ted on the
    ___________day
    ~
    ,
    1977 by a vote of
    II~LO
    Christan
    L.
    of etv
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
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