ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

March 10,

1983

IN THE MATTER OF:

)

REVISIONS TO CHAPTER

2:

AIR POLLUTION RULES 918,

919,

920,

921

)

R83—8

(NEW SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

)

PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER INDUSTRY:

WET PROCESS PHOSPHORIC ACID PLANTS;

)

SUPERPHOSPHORIC ACID PLANTS;

)

DIAMMONIUM PHOSPHATE PLANTS;

TRIPLE

)

SUPERPHOSPHATE PLANTS,

respectively)

)

RESOLUTION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(By J.D.

Dumeile):

On February 17,

1983 the United States

Environmental

Protection Agency published a revision notice

(48 Fed.

Reg.

7128)

to 40 CFR Part 60

——

Standards of Performance

for New Stationary

Sources

—

Phosphate Fertilizer Industry:

Subpart T

——

Wet

Process Phosphoric Acid Plants;

Subpart U

——

Superphosphoric

Acid Plants;

Subpart V

——

Diammonium

Phosphate

Plants;

Subpart W

-—

Triple Superphosphato Plants.

These revisions limit the applicability of standards to

plants with a capacity of more than 15 tons

of equivalent

phosphorus pentoxide

(P~,O~)feed per day.

The effect of these

revisions is

to exempt rr~mthe standard small plants used for

research and development of production processes.

Pursuant to Section 9.1 of the Illinois Environmental

Protection Act,

the Board hereby adopts the above-noted

revisions to Rules

918,

919,

920 and

921. of Part IX:

New Sourc~

Performance Standards of Chapter

2:

Air

Pollution.

IT

IS

SO ORDERED.

Mr. Nega abstained.

I, Christan

L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify that the above

Resol.ution

and

Order

was

adopted

on

thejj

_day

of_f~

1983

by

a

vote

of

~

—.

-~

~

Christan

L.

Moffe,tE~Clerk

Illinois

Pollution

‘Control

Board

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