ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
August 13, 1992
IN THE MATTER OF:.
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GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
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R90-23
SITE-SPECIFIC EXCEPTION TO
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(Rulemaking)
35 ILL.
ADM. CODE 216.381
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FOR FERROUS FOUNDRIES IN
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VERMILION COUNTY.
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Proposed Rule.
Second Notice.
OPINION
AND
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by B. Forcade):
This matter comes before the Board on the October 10,
1990,
proposal of General Motors Corporation
(GM)
for site-specific
relief from Section 216.381
(35 Ill. Adm. Code 216.381) and GM’s
amended petition filed on December 21,
1990.
Section 216.381
limits the emission of gases containing carbon monoxide from
cupolas to a concentration of carbon monoxide of 200 ppm.
The
petition seeks exception to this limit for foundries located in
Vermilion County and imposes a limit of 2,000 ppm for carbon
monoxide emissions from cupolas in Vermilion County.
In a March 14,
1991,
order,
the Board determined that an
Economic Impact Statement was not required.
Hearings were held
on August 27,
1991 in Chicago,
Illinois and on August 29,
1991 in
Danville, Illinois.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
(Agency) and the Department of Energy and Natural Resources
(DENR)
participated in the hearings.
Several members of the
public also attended the hearings.
GM filed a memorandum in
support of the petition on October 30, 1991,
along with the
engineering studies and stack test reports requested at the
hearing.
Public comments were received from DENR and the Agency.
In
P.C.
#1, DENR provided the Board with a list of foundries in
Illinois.
The Agency,
in P.C.
#2, supported the proposed rule.
By order of June
4,
1992, the Board sent this proposal to
first notice, pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Illinois
Administrative Procedure Act.
First notice publication occurred
at
16 Ill. Reg.
9297,
June 19,
1992.
The 45 day comment period
ended on August
3,
1992.
A public comment was received from the Administrative Code
Division of the Office of the Secretary of State noting some
typographical errors and changes to the source notes.
The
suggested changes will be made to the proposed amendment.
A review of the proposed rule prompts the Board to make one
minor change.
In Section 216.382, that portion that reads
“Section 216.381 does not apply
...“
will read “35 Ill. Adm. Code
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216.381 shall not apply
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The Board makes no further
revision and will hereby propose the rule for second notice
publication.
ORDER
The Board hereby directs that second notice of the following
proposed amendments be submitted to the Joint Committee on
Administrative Rules.
SUBPART 0:
PRIMARY
AND
FABRICATED
METAL
PRODUCTS
Section 216.381
Cupolas
No person shall cause or allow the emission of gases
containing carbon monoxide into the atmosphere from any
cupola with a manufacturer’s rated melt rate in excess
of
5 tons per hour,
unless such gases are burned in a
direct flame afterburner so that the resulting
concentration of carbon monoxide in such gases is less
than or equal to 200 ppm corrected to 50 percent excess
air or such gas streams are controlled by other
equivalent pollution control equipment approved by the
Agency according to the provisions of 35 Ill.
Adm. Code
201.
Section 216.382
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Exception.
General Motor’s Ferrous
Foundry in Vermilion County
The standard for carbon monoxide of
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Ill.
Adm. Code
216.381 shall not apply to the existing ferrous foundry
located adiacent to Interstate 74 at G Street in
Vermilion County.
owned by General Motors Corporation
on the effective date of this regulation.
The emission
of carbon monoxide from this foundry shall not exceed
2,000 ppm corrected to
50 percent excess air.
(Source:
Added at
Ill. Reg.
_________,
effective
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Dorothy N.
Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board, hereby certJ~ythat the above opinion and order was
adopted on the Ji~i~-day of
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1992, by a vote
of
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Dorothy N.
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Clerk
Illinois PáYlution Control Board
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