ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
August L 1974
LAKE WOOD ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
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Petitioner,
vs.
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PCB 74~~173
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
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Respondent.
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OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by Mr. Seaman):
On May 7, 1974, Lakewti~dEngineering and Manufacturing Company filed
its Petition for Variance, seeking therein permission to exceed the
limitations of Rule 205(f) of the Illinois Pollution Control Board
Regulations, Chapter 2, Part II. An Amended Petition was filed on
May 20, 1974.
The Petitioner is a manufacturer and assembler of electric fans,
heaters and lighting fixtures. Approximately 1,800,000 of these items
are manufactured annually at its Chicago facility with a gross sales volume
of approximately $l8,000,000~00. Petitioner employs an average of 350
persons. Integral to this manufacturing process is the painting of products.
This painting function is accomplished through an electrostatic
spray painting operation, The material used is a baked enamel composed of
alkyd and melamine resins and photochemicaily t’eactive solvents. The
solvents currently used are Xylol and BS 150 of which an estimated 19 pounds
per hour is emitted from four (4) spray booths and 40 pounds per hour from
the bake oven. Petitioner does not have any control equipment for organic
emissions from its spray paint operation or drying oven. The spray paint
operation does have control for particulates.
Petitioner received an operating permit, #03100096, for its spray
painting operations on November 7, 1973. The permit expired March 31, 1974.
The Agency has refused to issue a new permit on the ground that the facility
was not in compliance with Rule 205(f).
Petitioner proposes to comply with Rule 205(f) by using exempt solvents.
However, Petitioner claims these solvents are not commercially available
at the present time. Petitioner expects to be able to acquire such solvents
within six months to one year.
Agency investigators during their inspection of Petitioner~sfacilities
detected organic solvent odors within the plant and light odors outside the
plant area. Persons who worked in the area stated they had experienced no
odor problems.
Petitioner~s facility is located in an industrial/commercial area at
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2121
~NorthCarpenter, Chicago, Cook County,
Illinois.
The Agency has
received no citizen complaints or objections to the granting of this
Variance.
Petitioner has submitted two letters from its supplier to the effect
that exempt solvents cannot be presently acquired due to current shortages
in the market. Petitioner asserts that denial of the variance would
impose undue hardship in itself, its employees and its customers, especially
retail chains.
In view of the current shortage of non-photochemically reactive solvents
we are disposed to grant the variance requested for a period of six months,
subject to certain conditions.
This Opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions of law
of the Board.
IT IS
THE ORDER of the
Pollution Control Board that Petitioner be
granted a variance from the provisions
of
Rule 205(f) of the Air Pollution
Control Regualtions for a period of six months from the date of this Order,
subject to the following conditions:
1. Petitioner shall utilize as much exempt solvent formulations
as can be furnished by its suppliers.
2. Petitioner shall submit monthly reports to:
Environmental Protection Agency
Division of Air Pollution Control
Control Program Coordinator
2200 Churchill Road
Springfield, Illinois 62706
The monthly reports shall include the total amount of solvents used, the nature
and amount of non-exempt solvents used, the nature and amount of exempt
solvents used, the amount and nature of exempt solvents purchased (indicating
the supplier), the amount and nature of non-exempt solvents purchased
(indicating the supplier), and the amount and nature of solvents in inventory
at the beginning of each month.
3, Within 3 months of the date of this Order, Petitioner shall submit
to the Agency a modified compliance plan to replace that which has been
nullified by shortages. This plan may:
i. Achieve compliance at the expiration of’ the
Variance by replacement of photochemic~lly
reactive solvents with non-reactive solvents
demonstrated to be readily available; or
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ii. Achieve compliance at the expiration of the
Variance by qualification under the Alternative
Standard of Rule 2O5(f)(l); or
iii. Achieve compliance by May 30, 1975, under the
provisions of Rule 2O4(f)(2)(D).
I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Con,~ol Board,
daycertifyof
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that the above
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