LLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    December
    2(~, 1989
    ~1EAD,PACK:NG
    DIVI~:31z,
    Petitioner,
    PCB 89-211
    (ProvisIonal VarIance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION
    AGENCYr
    Respondent.
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J.
    Marlin):
    This
    matter comes before the Board on the December
    20,
    1989
    recommendation of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency).
    The Agency recommends
    that
    the Board grant Mead a
    provisional variance from January
    2 through February
    15,
    1990
    from 35
    Ill. Mm. Code 215.401,
    to the extent such
    a variance
    would allow Mead
    to operate without controls using coatings.
    The
    Agency maintains that Mead would suffer arbItrary and
    unreasonable hardship if denied this relief.
    On December
    6,
    1989,
    under docket number
    PCB 89—196,
    the
    Board granted Me~da provisicnal variance
    from December
    18,
    1989
    to January 31,
    1990 on
    a
    recommendation filed by the Agency on
    December
    6,
    1989.
    The present petition requests that the Board
    modify the prior provisional variance
    to change the dates through
    which the variance would
    run.
    The Board docketed this second
    recommendation as
    a new petition.
    In
    its December
    5,
    1989 recommendation,
    the Agency
    recommended that
    the Board grant
    the provisional variance with
    four conditions.
    The December
    20,
    1989 recommendation states
    that “the
    change
    in the time frame for
    the provisional variance
    does not alter the Agency’s analysis.”
    Therefore,
    the Board
    infers that the Agency recommends
    those conditions
    as part
    of
    this new recommendation.
    Mead operates
    a plant at Godfrey,
    in Madison County.
    The
    plant manufactures beverage and soap cartons.
    Mead has 706
    tons
    of wax
    laminated board worth about $530,000
    in stock at
    its
    plant.
    Mead has been unsucessful
    in its attempt to use complaTht
    inks and varnishes on
    this material,
    because such materials
    produce
    a defective product.
    Mead has been unsucessiul
    in its
    attempt to return this material
    to its supplier, and shipment
    to
    another Mead location is cost prohibitive.
    Mead would use this
    material
    in production
    in eight production days in
    December and
    January
    if granted this provisional variance.
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    6—L:53
    The Board hereby grants Mead
    the Agency—recommended
    provisional variance with conditions.
    The fourth condition
    is
    that Modern Foundry execute
    a certificate of acceptance,
    Althcugh the Board does not normally recuire
    such certification
    for provisional variances,
    the Board includes this condition
    because
    the Agency has requested
    it.
    The Board has split
    a
    part:
    of
    the fourth Acency-recommended condition into
    a fifth
    condition
    in its Order.
    ORDER
    The Board hereby grants Mead a provisional variance from 35
    Ill. Mm.
    Code 215.401
    from January
    2,
    1990 through February
    15,
    l~90, subject
    to the following conditions:
    1.
    This provisional variance applies only
    to t~e706 tons of
    wax laminated board presently in its stock
    ~
    its Godfrey
    plant.
    Mead shall not apply noncompliant inks and
    varnishes to any other materials.
    2.
    Mead shall
    submit,
    within three days of the end of each
    calendar week,
    a written report of the amount
    of wax
    laminated board remaining
    in stock,
    the production days
    on which Mead printed wax laminated board,
    the amount of
    was laminated board Mead printed,
    and the VOM emissions
    from printing wax laminated board.
    3.
    Mead shall submit the written report
    required above the
    the Agency addressed as follows:
    Regional Manager
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    2009 Mall Street
    Collinsville,
    IL
    62234
    4.
    Mead shall, within ten days of the date of
    this Order,
    execute and forward to
    James J. O~Donnell
    Enforcement Programs
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    2200 Churchill Road
    Post Office Box 12976
    Springfield,
    IL
    62794—9276
    a certificate of acceptance in the following form:
    10~—454
    —3—
    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 89—211, December 20,
    1989.
    Petitioner
    Authorized Agent
    Title
    Date
    5.
    This provisional variance shall not become effective
    until after Mead has executed and forwarded the
    certificate of acceptance as required above.
    IT
    IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy
    M. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify that the above Opinion and Order was
    adopted on the
    c’~’O~°~
    day of ___________________________
    1989, by a vote of
    7—t.
    1.
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    Dorothy M.
    Gy~nn, Clerk
    Illinois Pc4ilution Control Board
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