ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January
    24, 1974
    )
    LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL
    )
    )
    )
    V.
    )
    PCB 73-356
    )
    )
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    )
    )
    MR.
    RICHARD J.
    KISSEL, BURDITT AND CALKINS, appeared on behalf
    of Lake Forest Hospit~l
    MR. MICHAEL
    A.
    BENNEDETTO, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, appeared
    on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr.
    Dumelle):
    The Lake Forest Hospital filed
    a Variance Petition on
    August 23,
    1973.
    The Agency filed
    a Recommendation on September 21,
    1973 and an Amendment on January
    7,
    1974.
    The Agency Amended
    Recommendation was
    to grant
    the Variance Petition.
    No hearing was
    held.
    Lake Forest Hospital seeks
    a variance from Order #7
    of
    League
    of Women Voters
    v.
    North Shore Sanitary District,
    PCB 70-7,
    12,
    13,
    and 14
    (March 31, 1971),
    in order to obtain
    a sewer
    connection permit for a proposed hospital.
    The hospital would be
    located in Lake Forest,
    Illinois and would be tributary to the
    Clavey Road
    Sewage Treatment Plant.
    The Lake Forest Hospital would
    be completed on October
    1,
    1974.
    The Board has decided to dismiss
    this Variance Petition without
    prejudice
    in light
    of the decision to grant the North ~Shore Sanitary
    District the authority to issue
    2,000 permits
    (8,000 PB.)
    to
    connect
    to sewers tributary to the Clavey Road Sewage Treatment.
    Plant, North Shore Sanitary District v.
    EPA, PCB 73-134,
    (January 10,
    1974).
    The Board specifically included hospitals
    as
    a class
    of
    permit applicants
    to be given priority by the District in allocating
    available permits
    (Order
    4,
    North Shore Sanitary District
    V.
    EPA,
    PCB 73-134).
    The above Opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of
    facts
    and conclusions of
    law.
    11
    —31
    ORDER
    The Board hereby denies
    the Lake Forest Hospital’s Variance
    Petition without prejudice.
    IT
    IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan
    L.
    ~.1ofFett,Clerk of
    the
    Illinois
    Pollution
    Control
    Board, hereby certiFy
    the above Opinion rand Order were
    adopted on the
    ~ç/1”
    day of January, 1974 by
    a vote
    of ~?~-O
    /1
    ~L/i~L
    Christan
    L. Moffe~,~1erk
    Illinois Pollution~ntrol Board
    11
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