ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November 6,

1975

AMOCO OIL COMPANY,

)

Wood River Refinery,

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 75—336

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,)

Respondent.

DISSENTING OPINION

(by Mr. Dumelle):

For the same reasons advanced orally in my dissent in PCB 75-

105

(May

29,

1975)

I continue to dissent in this case.

Amoco,

though put on notice by my earlier dissent, has not

put into this record any evidence to show that their 403 tons

per year particulate discharge does not affect the substandard

air quality presently found in Granite City and other locations

in the Metro East area or indeed perhaps on the Missouri side

of the Mississippi River.

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency 1974 Annual

Air Quality Report issued in September,

1975, gives the following

1974 data for the particulate sampling stations on the Illinois

side of the Mississippi River.

Granite City had annual geometric

means

of 100,

93,

86,

158 and 86; Cahokia State Park reached 111;

and East St.

Louis was

89 ug/m3 compared to a Federal and Illinois

standard of

75 ug/m3.

The map of 1974 particulate isopleths

shows a large portion of the Metro East area as over the standard

(Map

28,

p.

107).

Thus perhaps from 150,000 to 200,000 Illinoisans

in this area now suffer from air of admittedly unhealthy quality.

I would have required Amoco to compute their contribution

of particulate to these other locations.

Failing that,

it seems

to me that they have not borne their burden under Train

(See also Shell Oil Company v. EPA, PCB 75—90, May 22,

1975,

Dissenting Opinion)

Submitted by___________________________________

Jacob D. Dumelle

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk o

t e Illinois Pollution Control

Board, h~rebycertify the above Diss

ing Opinion was submitted on

the

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of November,

1975.

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