ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

April

4,

1975

CITY OF GALENA,

Petitioner,

vs.

)

PCB 75—138

)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY,

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr.

Henss):

On April

1,

1975 Petitioner filed

its request for variance

in order to open burn dead elm trees in the City of Galena.

The

Variance

Petition is inadequate since it does not meet the re-

quirements of our Procedural Rule

401.

We,

therefore,

require

Petitioner

to

submit

additional

information

to

conform

to

the

Procebural

requirements.

We

especially

need

to

know

the

quantity

at

:Landscape

waste

which

Petitioner

seeks

to

open

burn,

location

of

tt~~

burn

relative

to

residential

areas,

time

of

tte

burn

and

the

nature

of

atternots

to

dispose

of

the

landscape

waste

in

compliance

with

the

Regulations.

Petitioner

should

e~plain

why

an

air

curtain

destructor,

properly

permitted

under

the

Open

Burning

Regulations,

could

not.

he

used

to

burn

the

ia~dscape

waste.

This

additional

information

and

other

informatio4i

required

to

comply

with

Rule

401

must

he

filed

with

the

Board

~

or before

May

14,

1975.

If

the

additional

information

is

not

filed

within

that

time

the

Petition

for

Variance

will

be

subject

to

dismissal

for inadequacy.

Along with

the

additional

information,

Petitioner

should

file its statement requesting that the 90 day period for deciding

the petition commence with the filing of the additional information.

IT

IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the

Illinois Pollution ç~ntrol

Board, hereby certify the above Order was adopted this

i~fTP)

day of

~

,

1975 by a vote of ____to ~