ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    December 20, 1990
    INDIAN REFINING,
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 90—241
    (Provisional Variance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (J. Marlin):
    This matter comes before the Board on receipt of an Agency
    Recommendation dated December 20, 1990. The recommendation
    refers to a request from Petitioner, Indian Refining for a 30—
    day provisional variance from the sulfur dioxide (SO2)
    limitation, as set forth in 35 Ill. Adm. Code 214.162, for the
    period December 15, 1990 to January 5, 1990. This provisional
    variance follows one granted the Petitioner on November 8, 1990
    for the same matter from November 15, 1990 to December 15, 1990.
    Indian Refining is refurbishing its mothballed Lawrenceville
    refinery and wishes to startup production. Upon inspection,
    Indian Refining found that the sulfur recovery unit was
    extensively corroded. This will render the sulfur recovery unit
    incapable of startup with the FCC and alky plant. Each day of
    delay in startup would cost Indian Refining an economic loss of
    $130,000. If granted this provisional variance, Indian Refining
    would reduce crude sulfur levels to 0.6 percent by weight and
    replace residual oil firing with natural gas. The provisional
    variance would limit Indian Refining’s maximum SO2 emissions to a
    daily average of 2400 pounds per day, the maximum level of
    emissions otherwise allowable under 35 Ill. Adin. Code 214 for
    normal plant operations. The use of natural gas and crude sulfur
    limitation would offset the increased emIssions resulting from
    not running the sulfur recovery unit.
    Upon receipt of the request, the Agency issued its
    recommendation, finding that due to unforeseen, temporary and
    uncontrollable circumstances, failure to grant the requested 30—
    day provisional variance would impose an arbitrary or
    unreasonable hardship on Petitioner. The Agency recommends a
    grant of the provisional variance with certain conditions.
    The Board hereby grants Petitioner a provisional variance
    from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 214.162 from December 15, 1990 to January
    5, 1990, with the following conditions:
    1. Indian Refining shall make operational changes that
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    will reduce crude sulfur levels to 0.6 percent by weight and
    replace residual oil firing with natural gas;
    2. Indian Refining’s sulfur dioxide emissions shall not
    exceed a daily average of 2400 pound per hour;
    3. Indian Refining shall submit a written report,
    indicating the total hours of operation,, daily average
    sulfur dioxide emissions, and the highest level of sulfur
    dioxide emissions during any hour of operation, and forward
    it to the Agency within three days of the end of each
    calendar week addressed as follows:
    Regional Manager
    Division of Air Pollution Control
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    2009 Main Street
    Collinsville, Illinois 62234
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    J. Dumelle dissented.
    I, Dorothy N. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board do hereby certify that the above Order was adopted on the
    day of
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    ,
    1990, by a vote of
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    DorothyN. ~unn,
    A.
    Clark
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    Illinois Pollution Control Board
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