Illinois EPA grants Trunkline Gas Company, LLC Provisional Variance from Hazardous Waste Accumulation Periods

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) has granted Trunkline Gas Company, LLC a provisional variance from hazardous waste accumulation periods so as not to violate applicable hazardous waste storage requirements. The need for the provisional variance is due to the need to identify an appropriate disposal treatment facility for three 55-gallon drums of hazardous waste at its facility, located at 927 North County Road 800 East, Tuscola (Douglas County). The drums were generated as part of maintenance cleaning of a spill prevention control and countermeasures tank.

Trunkline Gas Company must continue to meet all other hazardous waste storage requirements. The three drums are being properly stored and managed in a secure hazardous waste designated storage area at the Tuscola facility.

Environmental regulations allow a generator to seek an extension of up to 30 days from the Illinois EPA if hazardous waste must remain on-site for longer than 90 days due to unforeseen, temporary, and uncontrollable circumstances. The 90-day hazardous waste holding period for the three drums ends on February 8, 2016. It is unlikely that arrangements for shipment of these drums to a proper disposal treatment facility can be finalized and implemented by that date. Illinois EPA has determined that such facts and circumstances exist in this situation and grants Trunkline Gas Company a provisional variance for a period of 30 days.