ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November 15,

1973

COMMONWEALTH

EDISON

COMPANY

(Dresden station),

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 73—359

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

INTERIM ORDER OF

THE

BOARD

(by Mr. Henss)

On November 23,

1971 this Board granted Petitioner

a variance

from Sections 201 and 203(1)

,

Chapter

3, Water Pollution Regulations

in the oneration of its Dresden Nuclear Power Station.

The Board

Opinion stated:

“It is our intent at this

time to allow the variance

until the cooling lake is in operation, but the

Illinois Environmental Protection Act does not allow

variances longer than one year.”

The variance was subsequently extended until November 23,

1973.

Ninety days prior to ex~irationof the variance Commonwealth Edison

filed

a petition for another extension.

Hearing on the Petition for

Variance Extension was not held until November 15,

1973.

It is

contemplated that the Board decision will be made prior to January

22,

1974.

Commonwealth

Edison has requested an interim extension of

variance

pending

our

decision,

and

we

believe

it

will

facilitate

the

handling of the variance petition, and is appropriate,

to allow the

motion for interim variance extension.

It

is therefore ordered that the Motion for Interim Variance

L~xtensionbe allowed and that the variance previously granted with

respect to Sections 201 and 203(i)

of the Water Pollution Regulations

in the operation of Petitioner’s Dresden Nuclear Power Station be

extended to January

22,

1974.

Mr.

Seaman was not present.

I, Christan L.

floffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereby certify the above Interim Order was adopted this

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