ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

October

24,

1972

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 MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

)

v.

)

 #72—417

:~N~~ONNENTALPROTECTION AGENCY

:Y:NI3N

AND

 ORDER OF THE BOARD

 (BY SAMUEL

 T. LAWTON,

 JR.)

New Hoce Missionary Baptist Church seeks

 a variance from our

~w~r

 ban Order of March

31,

 1971, entered

 in League of Women

~:~ers

v.

 North Shore Sanitary District #70—7,

 etc.,

 to enable

:::~s~ruction

of

a

 new church building that will discharge

its

~a~e into tribitaries of

the NSSD North Chicago Sewage Treatment

We

will

require petitioner

 to furnish additional informa-

in order that

 the petition meets

 the procedural requirements

~ variance petition,

 as provided in our Rules

 (Rule

 401a)

~recifica1ly,

 we will need additional information on the following

s’~t~ects:

the nature and quantity of contaminants

 to be discharged,

-~:-e

number

of members

 in the congregation, whether the use of the

church oremise as proposed, will add any additional load to the

 facilities of

 the North Chicago Plant in consideration of

the

residence location of congregation members,

 the status of the

sewer to which connection is sought as

 to Dossible overload, and

whether the congregation is presently occupying a building that

will

be

put to a new use.

We have granted variances for institutional uses where the

~rooosed use of sewer facilities would be in substitution of use

of facilities

 in the homes

 of members, on the basis

 that the pro-

posed use would not generate additional sewage to the facilities

of the North Shore Sanitary District, Tennis Development,

 Inc.,

v.

Environmental Protection Agency,

 #72—59,

 5 PCB

 (May 17,

 1972);

Waukegan Park District v.

 Environmental Protection Agency,

 #71—314

and 71-342,

 3 PCB 313

 (December

21,

 1971,)

 However, we are unable

to determine from the petition whether this exception to the sewer

ban Order would be available to the petitioner or whether other

circumstances exist that would justify

 a variance.

Petitioner

 is granted 15 days from the date of this Order to

furnish the information requested.

The

90 day statutory period

for the determination of a variance shall begin to run from the

receipt of the foregoing information by the Pollution Control

 Board.

It is

 so ordered.

I, Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board,

certify that the above Opinion and Order was adopted on the~/_day

of October, A.

D.

 1972,

 by a vote of ~~1Lto

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