ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

December 21, 1971

WITCO CHEMICAL CORP.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Maurice E. Gosnell for Witco Chemical Corporation

Frederick C. Hopper for the Environmental Protection Agency

Opitiion of the Board (by Mr.. Currie)

The Air Pollution Control Board in May 1970 approved Witco’s

program (Acerp) for bringing particulate emissions from its

Lawrenceville plant into compliance with the regulations.

Witco now asks reapproval of that program, pursuant to our

decision (EPA v. Commonwealth Edison Co.

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70-4, Feb. 17, 1971),

that such approval was valid only for one year. We grant the

request.

Witco’s initial program called for the completion of constructicn

of controls by March 15, 1972, and the company is on schedule.

Baghouses for asphalt grinding and a fume incinerator for asphalt

oxidizing are on the premises, permits have been obtained, and

construction is proceeding. Witco will need sixty days beyond

March 15 for testing and debugging.

The time to compliance now is quite short, and we see no

way to make it shorter without shutting down the plant, which

on the record is not justified. Under these circumstances we

have invariably reapproved Acerps, e.g., US Industrial Chemicals

Co. v. EPA,

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71-44 (Oct. 14, 1971). Any question as to the

promptness of the company’s initial filing was wiped out by

the old Board’s approval of the program (see, e.g., Moody v.

Flintkote Corp.,

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70—36, Sept. 2, 1971). We shall require a

bond or other security for this $750,000 program, as the statute

requires. Since the equipment has already been purchased, a

relatively low amount will suffice.

This opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of fact and

conclusions of law.

ORDER

Witco Chemical Co. is hereby granted a variance until May 15,

1972, to

emit

from its Lawrenceville plant particulate

contaminants in excess of those permitted by the Rules and

Regulations Governing the Control of Air Pollution, on the

following conditions:

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1. Witco shall diligently pursue the control program

described in the record;

2. Witco shall within 35 days after receipt of this order

post with the Agency a bond or other adequate security

in the amount of $50,000 to assure timely completion

of that program;

3. Witco shall not increase its emission of contaminants

during the period of this variance;

4. Any breach of the conditions of this order shall be

grounds for revocation of the variance.

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

certify that the Board adopted the Above Opinion this 21st

day ~f December

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1971 by a vote of 4-0.

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