ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 6, 1998
    VILLAGE OF AMBOY,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 99-22
    (Provisional Variance - Water)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
    On August 4, 1998, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) filed a
    request for provisional variance and notification of recommendation. The Agency
    recommends that the Board grant a 45-day provisional variance. The provisional variance
    would allow the petitioner’s Lee County facility to rehabilitate its wastewater treatment plant
    by removing sludge from Cell No. 3 and replacing the submerged rock filter. In making its
    recommendation, the Agency states that failure to grant the requested provisional variance for
    45 days will result in an arbitrary or unreasonable hardship on the petitioner.
    The Board grants the petitioner a provisional variance from 35 Ill. Adm. Code
    304.141(a) as it applies to five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD
    5
    ), and to suspended
    solids (SS), and from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 304.120(c) as it applies to the limits for BOD
    5
    ,
    carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD
    5
    ), and SS imposed by National Pollutant
    Discharge Elimination System Permit No. IL0027472. The Board is required, in a provisional
    variance, to adopt a formal order, assure formal maintenance of the record, assure the
    enforceability of the variance, and provide notification of the action by press release. Pursuant
    to Section 35(b) of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/35(b) (1996)), the
    Board must issue the provisional variance within two days of the filing.
    The Board hereby grants the petitioner a provisional variance beginning on a date in
    1998, and continuing for 45 days thereafter, subject to the following conditions:
    1.
    The variance shall begin on a date during 1998 when rehabilitation work begins
    on the lagoons and shall continue for 45 days thereafter until the rehabilitation
    work on the treatment plant is completed, whichever occurs first.
    2.
    During the variance period, petitioner shall operate its wastewater treatment
    facility as to produce the best effluent practicable. Additionally, petitioner shall
    meet the following effluent limits:
    2
    CBOD
    5
    SS
    Monthly Average
    40 mg/L
    2
    60 mg/L
    3.
    Petitioner shall notify Dennis Connor of the Agency’s Rockford regional office
    by telephone at 815/987-7755 when work on the lagoons begins and again when
    rehabilitation work on the wastewater treatment plant is completed and returned
    to service. Written confirmation of each notice shall be sent within five days to
    the following address:
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Bureau of Water - Compliance Assurance Section
    Attention: Mark T. Books
    P.O. Box 19276
    Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
    4.
    Petitioner shall perform the necessary rehabilitation work on the wastewater
    treatment plant as expeditiously as possible.
    5.
    Within ten days of the date of the Board’s August 6, 1998 order, by August 2,
    1998, petitioner shall execute the certification set forth below and shall send it
    to Mark T. Books at the address indicated in condition number 3 above.
    CERTIFICATION
    I (We), _________________________________, hereby accept
    and agree to be bound by all terms and conditions of the order of the
    Pollution Control Board in PCB 99-22 dated August 6, 1998.
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    Petitioner
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    Authorized Agent
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    Title
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    Date
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    Board Member K.M. Hennessey abstained.
    Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act (415 ILCA 5/41 (1996)) provides for
    the appeal of final Board orders to the Illinois Appellate Court within 35 days of service of this
    order. Illinois Supreme Court Rule 335 establishes such filing requirements. See 172 Ill. 2d
    R. 335; see also 35 Ill. Adm. Code 101.246, Motions for Reconsideration.
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    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby certify that
    the above order was adopted on the 6th day of August 1998 by a vote of 6-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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