ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 27,
    1992
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    EXPANSION OF APPLICABILITY OF
    REASONABLY AVAILABLE CONTROL
    TECHNOLOGY FOR OZONE TO GOOSE
    )
    R91-28
    LAKE ANP AUX SABLE TOWNSHIPS IN
    )
    (Rulemaking)
    GRUNDY COUNTY,
    ILLINOIS, AND
    OSWEGO TOWNSHIP IN KENDALL COUNTY
    ILLINOIS:
    AMENDMENTS TO 35 ILL.
    ADN.
    CODE PARTS 215 AND 218
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by R.
    C.
    FleTnal):
    On February
    18,
    1992,
    the Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency
    (Agency)
    filed this proposal
    for rulemaking.
    The proposal
    is
    intended to expand the geographical applicability of
    reasonably available control technology
    (RACT)
    regulations to
    certain stationary sources of volatile organic material
    (VON)
    in
    Goose Lake and Aux Sable Townships
    in Grundy County,
    Illinois,
    and to Oswego Township in Kendall County,
    Illinois.
    On July 25,
    1991,
    the Board adopted revisions to the State implemention plan
    (SIP)
    to make it consistent with the existing Federal
    implementation plan
    (FIP)
    (Board docket R91-8).
    The revised SIP
    contains a complete set of RACT regulations applying to
    stationary VOM sources located in the six Chicago area counties
    of Cook,
    Lake,
    DuPage,
    Kane,
    McHenry,
    and Will.
    However, the
    regulations do not include Aux Sable and Goose Lake Townships
    in
    Grundy County and Oswego Township in Kendall County.
    The Agency
    states that because these townships have now been included within
    the Chicago area boundaries designated by USEPA as nonattainment
    for ozone,
    they also must be included
    in the SIP.
    Pursuant to a provision of the Clean Air Act Amendments
    (CAA)(42 USC §7511a(c)
    and a(b)(2)),
    Illinois is to submit these
    regulations changing the applicability of parts 215 and 218
    as
    a
    revision to its SIP by November 15,
    1992.
    After a review of the proposal, the Board finds that the
    proposal substantially meets the requirements of the
    Environmental Protection Act
    (Act)
    (I1l.Rev.Stat.
    1991,
    ch.
    111
    1/2,
    par.
    1001 et.
    seg) and the Board’s procedural rules.
    The
    hearing officer is authorized and directed to require the Agency
    to provide any additional information which may be necessary.
    The proposal
    is accepted for hearing.
    This order starts the
    timeclock for the Board’s economic impact study
    (EcIS)
    determination and for first notice publication pursuant to
    130—475
    2
    Sections 27 and 28.2 of the Act.
    (See 35 Ill.Adm.Code
    102.160(b).)
    The Agency has filed several motions with the proposal.
    The
    Agency asks that the Board waive certain requirements which
    govern the filing of a regulatory proposal.
    Specifically,
    the
    Agency asks:
    1) that it be allowed to submit four complete copies
    of the proposal and six partial copies of the proposal, rather
    than the original and nine complete copies; and 2) that it need
    not supply the Attorney General with a complete copy of the•
    proposal.
    The Board grants the Agency’s motion.
    The Agency need
    not submit ten complete copies of the proposal,
    and, because the
    Attorney General has agreed to accept a partial copy of the
    proposal,
    the Agency need not serve a complete copy on the
    Attorney General.
    The Agency has also submitteda request for expedited
    hearing,
    based upon its statement that the 1990 Clean Air Act
    Amendments require Illinois to submit these rules changing the
    applicability of parts 215 and 218 by November 15,
    1992.
    The
    Board assures the Agency,
    and all other interested persons,
    that
    the Board places
    a high priority on the quick resolution of this
    proposal, and will proceed as quickly as possible.
    The Board
    notes,
    however, that it
    is constrained by notice,
    publication,
    and hearing requirements imposed by several statutes.
    Nevertheless, the Board will proceed with this proposal as
    quickly as possible.
    The Board also notes that the Agency has certified, pursuant
    to Section 28.2 of the Act, that this rule is federally required.
    The Board accepts that certification, and will reference the
    certification
    in its first notice publication.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby cert~.fythat the above Order was adopted a
    the
    ~
    day of
    ~
    ,
    1992,
    by a vote of
    ______
    ~
    Dorothy M4Gunn,
    Clerk
    Illinois (~‘ollutionControl Board
    130—476

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