ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

October 30, 1975

MT. CARMEL PUBLIC UTILITY

CO.,

Petitioner,

PCB 75—41

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY,

Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF TH~BOARD

(by

Mr. Goodman):

This matter comes before the Pollution Control Board

(Board) upon the Supplemental Petition of Mt. Carmel

Public

Utility Co. (Nt~Cannel)

to

extend a variance from Rule 2-

2,53

of the Rules and Regulations Governing the Control

of

Air Pollution and from Rule 203(g) (1) (B) of the Board~s

Air

Regulations until December 31, 1975.

On May 8, 1975, the Board issued an Interim Opinion

and

Order in which it was found that Mt. Cannel had pursued

its

plan of compliance in good faith

“.

.to normally warrant the

grant of a variance until the controls are installed, or

until an additional allocation is obtained.” However, the

Board was precluded from granting the variance beyond July 31,

1975, without a showing that the variance will not

jeopardize

the attainment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

Therefore, Mt. Carmel was ordered to supply the Board with

ambient air quality data with respect to particulates.

On August 21, 1975, Mt. Cannel filed its amended petition,

herein. Said petition contains data related to the Ambient

Air Quality with respect to particulate in the Mt. Cannel

area. While no data was available from the Environmental

Protection Agency, Petitioner used information from

Commercial

Testing and Engineering Company. According

to this data,

based on sampling in 1970, only one test site of

six exceeded

the geometric mean of

75

ugms/m3, the Primary Ambient

Air

Quality Standard for particulate. This site was the

Peti—

tioner~s coal pile. Since 1970, Petitioner

has reduced the

coal it consumes by approximately

57, The Board holds that

Mt. Carmel has shown that its area meets the National

Primary

Ambient Air Quality Standard related

to particulate.

Due to a change in circumstances,

Mt. Cannel amended

its prayer for relief asking that the Board approve

the

progress made by Petitioner ~ that it be allowed to

continue

use of Boiler No. 4 as a coal~firedboiler until

October 31,

1975, or until such earlier time as its 138 KV transmission

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line is

tie&-in to the CIPS at Albion, at which time Boiler

No. 4 will be

retired

from service,

It

seems

that Boiler No. I was taken out of service in

July. 1975,

due

to corrosion of both lower headers.

When

the healer is

returned to service, a new

dust

collector, new

induced draft

fan and necessary duct work will have been

compLeted and

it will meet the particulate emission regula-

tions of

the

Board.

Tue

construction of Mt. Carrae1~s138

KU

transmission

line was completed

to the Albion substation on July 28,

~973,

However, CIPS would not tie-in the line until the

peak

season

was over. Mt. Carmel believes that this will

occur no

later than October 31, 1975.

The

Board

approves of the progress Petitioner has made

and

will

grant the requested variance.

Tnas

Opinion constitutes the findings of fact and

conclusions

of law of the Board in this matter.

ORDER

::t

is

the Order of

the Pollution Control Board that Mt.

Carmel

Public

Utility

be

granted

variance from Rule 2—2.53

of the

Rules and

Regulations Governing

the

Control of Air

Pollution and

Rule 203(g) (1) (B) of the Air Regulations for

its No. 4 boiler until

October 31, 1975,

or until

the 138 KV

interconnection line

with Central

Illinois Public

Service

Company at Albion, Illinois,

is completed, whichever shall

farat occur.

1, Christen C. Moffett~ Clerk

of

the Illinois

Pollution

Co~tro1 Board, hereby certify the above Opiniqn

~nd Order

were adopted on the

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b’~

day

of

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1973 oy a vote

of

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Illinois Pollution