ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November 6, 1975

FEDERAL PAPER BOARD COMPANY, INC.

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Petitioner,

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, 

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Respondent.

OPINION AND 

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by Mr. Goodman):

This matter comes before the Pollution Control Board

(Board) upon the August 11, 1975, Petition of the Federal

Paper Board Company, Inc. (Federal) for variance from Rules

203(g) (1) (A) and 204(c) (1) (A) of the Air Regulations. The

Environmental Protection Agency filed its recommendation on

October 23, 1975. No hearing was held.

Federal, a New York corporation, owns and operates a

facility in Morris, Grundy County, Illinois, which manu-

factures packaging cartons from recycled waste paper. At

the plant, Federal operates a traveling grate, coal—fired

boiler with a rated heat input of 179,000,000 BTU/hr.

Federal seeks variance, for this boiler, from Rule 203(g) (1) (A)

until July 31, 1975, arid from Rule 204(c) (1) (A) for a period

of one year. The boiler consumes 800 tons of coal per week,

operating 24 hours a day and 6 days a week, and produces

80,000 to 85,000 pounds of steam per hour.

Petitioner seeks variance from 203(g) (1) (A) in order to

allow completion of installation and testing of a mechanical

centrifugal collector. The multiclone, according to the

Agency recommendation, has been installed with a collection

efficiency of 90, bringing Petitioner into compliance with

Rule 203(g) (1) (A).

Federal employs 500 people at its Morris Plant and

states that it may have to close if its variance is not

granted. Due to equipment delays, Federal was two months

behind the regulatory compliance date of May 30, 1975. The

Board will grant Petitioner variance from Rule 203(g) (1) (A)

for its boiler.

Federal also seeks variance from Rule 204(c) (1) (A) for

its boiler in order to use its current supply of 2.5 sulfur-

coal and for one year to study the applicability of Supple-

mentary Control Systems (SCS) for its plant. Federal refers

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to the pending regulatory amendment of R75-5 which would

permit SCS in areas outside of Chicago, Peoria, and East St.

Louis Major Metropolitan Areas (MMA). Federal’s Morris

plant is located within the Chicago MMA and, therefore, R75-

5 would have no effect upon it. While Federal is free to

petition for a regulatory change, the variance procedure was

not intended for such use. The Board finds that Petitioner’s

compliance plan, with respect to Rule 204 (c) (1) (A), is

inadequate and therefore, must deny variance from that rule.

This Opinion constitutes the findings of fact and

conclusions of law of the Board in this matter.

ORDER

It is the Order of the Pollution Control Board that:

1) Federal Paper Board Company, Inc., be, and is

hereby, granted variance from Rule 203(g) (1) (A) until July

31, 1975 for its boiler at Morris, Illinois; and

2) Federal Paper Board Company, Inc.’s petition for

variance from 204 (c) (1) (A) be, and is hereby, dismissed

without prejudice.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby e tify the above Opinion and Order

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