ILLINOIS

 POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

February

3,

1972

MATTISON MACHINE WORKS

 PCB 71—277

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

 PCB 71—330

MATTISON MACHINE WORKS

Mr. Mark

 E. MacDonald

 for Mattison Machine Works

Mr.

 Melvyn A.

 Rieff, Assistant Attorney General for

 the Environmental

Protection Agency

Opinion of the Board

 (4by Mr.

 Currie):

Mattison petitioned for

 a variance,

 the Agency filed

 a counter-

complaint,

 and the parties have submitted

 a stipulation and

proposed settlement that we hereby approve.

The stipulation recites that Mattison operates

 a gray and

ductile iron cupola

 in Rockford.

 An Air Contaminant Emission

Reduction Program providing for installation of a wet cap

was approved bythe Air Pollution Control Board, but

it

later

developed that

 that device would

 not be adequate to assure

compliance.

 Further negotiations

 followed.

 The company now is

committed to the installation

 of equipment including an after-

burner

 (already installed)

and

 a baghouse

 to assure compliance

with the particulate regulations by August

31,

 1972 at the

 latest.

The parties agree

 to the payment of a penalty of $3500 for past

violations.

 This settlement

 is in accord with

 our prior

decisions

 in cases of this

 type,

 and we hereby approve it.

There

 is no showing of such

 an extreme nuisance as to justify

the drastic remedy of closing the plant during the rather short

time remaining before completion

 of the control program.

ORDER

1.

 Mattison

 shall pay the sum of $3,500.00 to the EPA in full

and complete settlement, release and payment of all

violations

 of Illinois State air pollution statutes

 and regu—

lations during the period from January

1,

 1967 to December

31,

 1971, which were alleged or might have been alleged in

the enforcement action filed by the EPA.

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2.

 Mattison

 is granted

 a variance with respect to applicable

emission standards for the operation of its cupola until

August

31,

 1972, or sixty days

 after final delivery from

Combustion Equipment Associates

 (“CEA”)

 to Mattison of all

equipment to the

 site necessary for installation of Mattison’s

cupola emission control system as described in the stipulated

facts attached hereto, whichever first occurs.

 Within thirty

days after

 such installation date Mattison

 shall cause

its

cupola emissions to be tested by an independent testing company

for submission

 to the EPA to determine compliance with State

emission standards.

3.

 Mattison shall file with

 the EPA

 a performance bond or

such other security

 as the EPA may deem appropriate

 in the

sum of $160,000.00 to guarantee installation and performance

of its cupola emission control system in compliance with the

provisions

 of Paragraph

2

 of this Agreed Order.

I, Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board, certify

~hat the Board adopted the above Opinion this

 day of

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