ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL

BOARD

June 14, 1973

LOCKE

STOVE COMPANY

)

#73—159

v.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

)

OPINION

AND

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(BY

SAMUEL T. LAWTON, JR.):

Petitioner has filed a petition for variance

in

which it

appears to

seek

to

be permitted

to exceed the particulate and

hydrocarbon emission limitations contained in our Pollution

Control

Board Air Regulations, Rules 203(b) and 205(f), until May 30, 1975,

when it contemplates that its

paint

supplier, the Glidden Paint

Company, will have

re—formulated

its product so as to meet Illinois

Air

Pollution Regulations.

Petitioner operates

a space heater fabrication plant in

East St. Louis. Included in the facility is a

three-man enamel

paint spraying

booth. Emissions from this operation result from

spraying, dipping and baking of the product. While the variance

pethtion

does not

cite

what express provisions of

the

Regulations

petitioner seeks to be relieved from, the Agency has assumed

that it

is requesting relief from Rule 103 and 104, and 203(b)

and 205(f)

above cited.

On

March 2, 1973, etitioner~s operating permit application

was denied by

the Agency, which led to the instant petition. At

the

time

of

the application,

the

Agency had calculated petitioner’s

particulate emissions from the spray booths to be 0,356 lbs/hr at

a process weight rate of

14.255 lbs/hr.

Upon

re—examination, the Agency determined that petitioner~s

particulate emissions are

0.12 lbs/hr against

an

allowable particulate

emission rate of 0.13 lbs/hr.

At the present time,

the Agency

is of the opinion that no

variance

is required in order to obtain

an operating permit for

particulate emissions from

the

paint spray

booths and that the

operating permit application likewise contains

an adequate compliance program

for organic emissions and that

no

variance is required in this respect.

n thaw ci

the foregoincr representations contained in the

Agency s .recommendation • we do not. discern any basis upon which a

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variance is needed and accordingly, the petition

for

variance

is dismissed as moot.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan

Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board, certify

that

the

above Opinion and Order was adopted on the /~‘~dayof

June, 1973, by a vote of 4

to ~

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