ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 14,
    1973
    COMMONWEALTH
    EDISON COMPANY
    ~71—l29
    v.
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (BY SAMUEL
    T.
    LAWTON,
    JR.):
    We entered an Opinion and Order which, among other things,
    granted
    a variance with respect to Units
    1,
    2,
    3 and 4 of Common-
    wealth Edison’s Powerton Station in Pekin, Illinois.
    Paragraph
    9
    of
    the Order provided as
    follows
    (Order of October
    14,
    1971):
    “The Company shall file quarterly reports, commencing
    December 31,
    1971, with the Agency,
    detailing its progress
    toward completion of its program.
    Such reports shall also
    detail Edison’s projected annual peak load,
    its daily
    projected peak load,
    and the Powerton Station generation
    for each day
    in each month compared
    to the power generation
    for the same day in the same month in the previous two
    years, prepared much in the manner as Commonwealth Edison
    Exhibit
    No.
    53
    .“
    On February
    1,
    1973,
    the Environmental Protection Agency
    filed a
    “Motion for Clarification of Quarterly Reports” asserting
    that it could not tell from the quarterly reports whether Unit 5
    of Powerton is included in the reports, and requested more accurate
    reporting with respect to kw
    hours generated by each unit,
    the
    scheduled outages on the system on a unit by unit basis and the
    unscheduled outages on a unit by unit basis.
    The Company’s response indicated that the reports do not include
    Powerton Unit
    5, which response should dispose of
    this problem.
    The
    remainder of
    the Company’s response indicated the difficulty and
    impracticality of furnishing the information sought by the Agency.
    We believe that the information sought by
    the Agency
    is not unreason-
    able providing that it relates
    to
    a reporting of events that have
    already occurred and not those which have been projected into the
    future, and that reporting of kw hours generated by each unit be on
    a gross generation basis.
    We see no reason why the Company cannot
    furnish the information sought on
    a unit by unit basis and direct
    that all future quarterly reports reflect such information as
    is
    sought
    by
    the
    Agency
    in
    its
    Motion
    for
    Clarification
    consistent
    with
    this Order.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan Nffet.~,Clerk of the Po11utior~Control Board, certify
    that the
    ~
    ~-der was adopted on the
    ~
    of February,
    1973,
    by
    a
    vote
    to
    ~
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