ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

January

7,

1988

MOBIL CHEMICAL COMPANY,

INC.,

Petitioners,

v.

)

PCB 88—8

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by B.

Forcade):

On January

4,

1988, The Dow Chemical Company and the Mobil

Chemical Company,

Inc.

filed

a joint petition for variance from

35

Ill. Adm.

Code Section 215.437 for their polystyrene plants.

The Board

is segregating this pleading and making

two separate

dockets:

PCB 88—2

is Dow Chemical Company and PCB 88—8

is Mobil

Chemical Chemical.

The petition for variance

in this proceeding

is deficient

in

that

it commingles

the facts and assertions of both Dow Chemical

and Mobil Chemical.

An amended petition must be filed,

in each

proceeding,

which describes only the facts

and claims

that relate

to that particular petitioner.

The Board

also notes that the

intention

to file

a future proposal

for regulatory relief does

not constitute

a compliance plan.

Unless an amended petition

is filed within 45 days of the

date of this Order, curing the above—noted defect,

this matter

will be subject to dismissal.

Unless otherwise advised

in the amended petitions, the Board

will assign these

two proceedings

to the same hearing officer

with a request that hearing

be scheduled for the same date in the

same location.

IT

IS SO ORDERED

I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk

of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereby certify

hat the above Order was adopted

on

the

~

day of ________________________,

1988, by

a vote

of

~

..

Dorothy M~Gunn,Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board

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