ILLINOIS

POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November 23, 1977

ADDRESSOGRAPH-MULTIGPJ~PH CORP.,

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 77—225

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

OPINION

AND ORDER

OF

THE BOARD (by Mr. Dumelle):

This case comes before the Board on a Petition for Variance

from the requirements of Rule 203(e) (4) of the Board’s Air

Pollution Control Regulations. The Agency has recommended that

the variance be granted. No hearing was held.

Petitioner operates a plant rn Charleston, Illinois which

manufactures reproduction ~‘print~ paper which is used to make

copies of engineering drawings. Petitioner’s process involves

coating white paper with a solution of various compounds.

Residues of this solution are washed from Petitioner’s coating

machines and run off into drains where the solution is diluted

and contained. This waste water is incinerated.

Petitioner’s incinerator complies with the Board’s emission

limitations for all parameters except particulates. Violation

of the particulate limitation in Rule 203(e) (4) occurs as a

result of application of the 12 C02 correction factor mandated

by that rule.

correctionPetitionerrequirementis

presentlyin

a regulatoryseeking

reliefproceedingfrom thedesignated12 CO2

as

R77-5, This variance is requested so that Petitioner can con-

tinue operating its incinerator in its present state until the

Board enters a final decision in R77-5.

The Petitioner and the Agency agree that no significant

environmental harm would result from the requested relief.

Denial of a variance in this instance would constitute an

arbitrary or unreasonable hardship on Petitioner for the following

reasons, First, Petitione: would have to choose between operating

its incinerator without the necessary Agency permits and face a

possible enforcement action or shutting down its incinerators

without a feasible alternative means of disposal of its waste

water, Second, it would not be appropriate for Petitioner to

initiate a costly compliance program when the Board may rule

that none is necessary.

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ORD~

It is the Order of the Pollrt~ i Control Board that

Petitioner be granted a variance ii~

ii

the requirortcnibs of Rule

203(e) (4) of the Board~sAir Pollut ~n Control iT~ gulations until

the Board otters a tnal decision the procee

~j

designated

as R77-5 subject to the following ccnditions:

1) Petitroitel shall con~oue to operate its incinerator

during the term of this riance without causing any

particulate emissions

cess of 0 1 grains per standard

cubic foot of effluen

ts without correction to 12

CO2) 2

Within 28 days

te date of the Board Order in

this proceeding the i~ ner shall execute and forward

to the Enva.ron:nenta

~ction Agency Enforcement Prc~

grams, 220u Churctil ~oa~1, Springfield, Ill~ 62706 and

to the Pollution Control tard, a Certificate of Accept-

ance and AgIeer~onnto be iund by all the terms and con-

ditions of L1~

rariance, w~th

the Certificate in the

following

~

Cii~RTlFICATION

Addressograpn~LiJ1tLqraphCorpoLation has received and under-

stands the Order ot U-ic illinois Pollution Control Board in PCB

77-225 and hereby a.~.

t?i

s ~aid Order and agrees to be bound by

all of the terms

anu

conditions thereof~

By:

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~TEle of p5~fEi6~

I, Christan L. i~ OLL, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hero troity the above 0 inion and Order were

adopted o~the ~

day of ~

1977

by a

~tan~erk

illinois Pollutibn Control Board

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