ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

September

12,

1974

ILLINOIS

NITROGEN

CORPORATION,

Petitioner,

v~

)

PCB 74—169

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY,

Respondent.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Complainant,

V.

PCB

73—517

(Consolidated)

ILLINOIS NITROGEN CORPORATION,

Respondent

ORDER OF THE POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

(by

Mr.

Henss)

Illinois Nitrogen Corporation

and

the Environmental Protection

Agency have jointly requested that certain documents and information

in this proceeding be designated

“not subject

to

disclosure”.

The

information was submitted to the Agency

in

support of

a request for

permit and was marked “confidential”,

The Agency is recuired to

file

its

record

in

this

proceeding

for

review,

but

the

parties

agree

that

parts

of

the

record

should

not

be

subject

to

disclosure.

The

uconfidentialu information relates

to the development of a new

technology for abatement of nitrogen oxide emissions from nitric acid

manufacturing plants.

Illinois Nitrogen has applied for a patent and

has handled the information as

a trade secret.

We find that the information should be designated ~not subject

to disclosure” and we therefore allow the motion.

The following

materials are hereby designated

“not subject to disclosure”:

1)

NO~emission study performed for

the

ILLINOIS NITROGEN

CORPORATION, Marseilles, Illinois January, 1974.

2)

A letter from Mr.

R.

P.

Feser, Manager to Mr. Keith

J.

Conklin, Manager, Permit Section, Division of Air

Pollution Control, undated, containing eight pages.

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3)

A letter from Mr.

R.

P. Feser to Mr. Keith C. Conklin,

Manager, Permit Section, Environmental Protection

Agency,

dated December

3,

1973,

consisting of one page.

4)

A letter from Mr.

R.

H. Farmer, Vice President,

Illinois

Nitrogen Corporation.,

to

Mr.

Keith C. Conklin, Manager,

Permit Section, Environmental Protection Agency, dated

September

28,

1972, containing the application for a

permit of which there

is a two—page letter and 53—page

application

5)

A letter dated October

2,

1973 from Mr.

R.

P. Feser to

Mr.

Keith

ir.

Conklin, Manager, Permit Section, consisting

of one page.

6)

A one-page document from the ILLINOIS NITROGEN CORPORATION

marked “Addendum APC-189—IN-A,

Reference:

Item l4.a of

form APC-189, Application~forOperating Permit Renewal for

Ammonium Nitrate Manufacture.”

7)

A one-page document marked “State of Illinois, Environmental

Protection Agency, Division of Air Pollution Control,

Ipplication for Operating Permit Renewal for Ammonium

Nitrate Manufacture

8)

Two schematic diagrams marked “Illinois Nitrogen Corp.,

Marseilles,

Illi.nois Nitric Acid Flow Diagram.”

9)

A letter fiom R.

P. Feser, Manager,

to Mr. Keith

C.

Conklin, Manager, Permit Section, Division of Air

PolLution Control, received at the Environmental

Protection Agency October

18,

1972,

containing

a one—

page letter and four supporting documents.

10)

Two letters,

one from Mr.

R.

P. Feser to Mr. Keith

C,

Conklin dated January

23,

1974 and one from Mr.

H.

D.

Kelly to Mr. Keith

C. Conklin dated January

7,

1974,

and a two-page supporting document marked “Application

for Operating Permit Renewal for Ammonium Nitrate

Manufacture.”

11)

A document marked “Illinois Nitrogen, 1—21—74, ArRo

File:

155-A,” containing 15 pages.

12)

Six pages of handwritten notes containing calculations.

it

is so

ordered.

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—3—

I,

Christan

L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board,

certify

that

the

above

Qrder

was

adopted

on

this

~

day of

September,

1974

by

a

vote

of

4-0

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