ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
June
6,
1991
IN THE
MATTER
OF:
)
)
PETITION OF USX CORPORATION
)
R90-18
FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE
)
(Site-Specific
DELISTING
)
Rulemaking)
PROPOSED RULE.
DISMISSAL ORDER.
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by J. Anderson):
This matter comes before the Board on the May 9, 1991
petition of USX Corporation
(USX)
for hazardous waste delisting
w~ithoutfurther review.
In support of its motion USX states that
the United States Environmental Protection Agency
(USEPA) has
granted an exclusion for USX’s chemically stabilized electric arc
furnace dust/sludge from the lists of hazardous wastes.
(56
Fed.
Reg.
19579, April
29,
1991.)
USX is requesting that the Board
adopt the federal rule directly to avoid any further time
consuming delisting processes.
On March
1,
1990, USEPA delegated authority to Illinois to
administer several additional components of the RCRA program
including the authority to delist hazardous waste.
(55 Fed. Reg.
7320.)
On July 5,
1990, the Board received a letter from the
USEPA concerning the transfer of the USX Steel delisting petition
and file.
A docket was reserved on July 19, 1990 and the USEPA
file was transferred into that docket on August 27,
1990.
On
November 9,
1990, USX notified the Board that USEPA had agreed to
reopen its file and make a final determination on the delisting
petition.
The Board granted USX a six month extension on
November 29,
1990 to await final action by USEPA.
During the six
month extension the Board received status reports on the progress
of USX’s petition.
The present petition is a result of the final
action taken by USEPA on April 29,
1991.
USX has continually requested that the delisting proceed
expeditiously since the original petition was filed with the
USEPA over three years ago,
The Board and USEPA
(as evidenced on
page 19587 of 56 Fed.
Reg., April 29,
1991) have both worked
toward expediting this delisting petition.
On May 23,
1991, the
Board, on its own motion, reserved docket R91—l2 for an
identical-in-substance RCRA delisting proceeding for USX.
That
docket will process USX~sdelisting petition more efficiently
than this site-specific rulemaking docket.
Therefore, to avoid
confusion and duplicitous proceedings, this docket is dismissed.
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I,
Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
BoardLjlereby certify
at the above Order was adopted on the
__________
day of
_________________,
1991, by a vote of
7-
C
.
Dorothy
14. G~1, Cler)~
Illinois Po1~ZutionControl Board
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