ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 24, 2005
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION and
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    PDV MIDWEST REFINING, L.L.C.,
    Petitioners,
    vs.
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    PCB 05-85
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
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    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent
    Report of proceedings had at the Illinois
    Pollution Control Board Hearing, held at 100 West
    Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois, on the 24th day of
    February, A.D., 2005, commencing at the hour of
    9:00 a.m.

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    1 APPEARANCES:
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    Mr. Bradley P. Halloran
    Mr. Anand Rao
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    Ms. Alisa Liu, P.E.
    (Illinois Pollution Control Board)
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    100 West Randolph Street
    Suite 11-500
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    Chicago, Illinois 60601
    (312) 814-8917
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    Mr. Jeffrey C. Fort
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    Ms. Letissa Carver Reid
    (Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP)
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    233 South Wacker Drive
    Suite 8000
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    Chicago, Illinois 60606
    (312) 876-2380
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    Mr. James A. Day
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    Mr. Darin E. LeCrone
    Mr. Scott A. Twait
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    (Illinois Environmental Protection Agency)
    1021 North Grand Avenue East
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    Springfield, Illinois 62794
    (217) 782-0610
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    ALSO PRESENT: Ms. Brigitte Postel
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    Mr. James E. Huff, P.E.
    Mr. Claude W. Harmon
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    Ms. Stacy Ford
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    INDEX
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    3 WITNESS
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    5 MR. CLAUDE W. HARMON
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    Examination by Ms. Carver Reid
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    8 MR. JAMES E. HUFF, P.E.
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    Examination by Ms. Carver Reid
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    MR. HALLORAN: We’re on the record.
    Good morning, everybody. My name is Bradley
    Halloran. I’m a hearing officer with the
    Illinois Pollution Control Board, also
    assigned to this matter. It’s entitled
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    It’s PCB 05-85, CITGO Petroleum Corporation
    and PDV Midwest Refining, L.L.C., are the
    petitioners, vs. The Illinois Environmental
    Protection Agency, the respondent.
    Today is February 24th, 2005.
    It’s approximately 9:05. I don’t see any
    members of the public here that are not
    affiliated with the parties, so we’ll move
    on. I do want to introduce Ms. Alisa L±Uand
    Anand Rao from my technical unit.
    MS. FORD: I’m not .affiliated with a
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    HALLORAN: And you’re from Exxon?
    FORD: Mobil
    HALLORAN: Mobil. But you’re a
    Okay. Fine. And your name?
    FORD: Stacy Ford.
    HALLORAN: F-O-R-D?
    FORD: F-O-R-D.
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    MR. HALLORAN: Do you wish to make any
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    kind of public comment or statement?
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    MS. FORD: No.
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    MR. HALLORAN: Thank you. We’re going
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    to run this hearing pursuant to Section 104,
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    Subpart B, and Section 101, Subpart F, of tli.e
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    Board’s procedural provisions. I also want
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    to note for the record that this hearing was
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    properly noticed. This hearing is intended
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    to develop a record for the Pollution Control
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    Board. I will not be making the ultimate
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    decision in this case. I’m here to rule on
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    any evidentiary matters and make sure the
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    hearing goes without a hitch.
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    With that said
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    But I do want to
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    note that this hearing has been changed from
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    Room 11-512. We are now in Room 5-85, and
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    it’s been properly noticed all through the
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    hallway. And I apologize we had to change
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    rooms; I didn’t realize this many people were
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    going to show. This is beyond my
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    expectations from the parties. But in any
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    event, here we are. I apologize for the
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    tight quarters.

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    But with that said, would the
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    parties like to introduce themselves?
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    Ms. Carver Reid?
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    MS. CARVER REID: Letissa Carver Reid
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    and Jeffrey Fort of the law firm
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    Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, 8000 Sears
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    Tower, Chicago 60606, on behalf of the
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    petitioners, CITGO Petroleum Corp. and PDV
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    Midwest Refining, L.L.C.
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    MR. HALLORA.N: Thank you. Mr. Day?
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    MR. DAY: James Day. I’m from the
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    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency,
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    division of legal counsel, representing the
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    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. We
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    have here, also on behalf of the Agency,
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    Mr. Darin LeCrone and Mr. Scott Twait.
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    MR. HALLORAN: Thank you very much.
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    We’ll just proceed as a normal hearing in
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    this matter. Mr. Fort has suggested he wants
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    to do an opening, and, Mr. Day, you have the
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    opportunity as well.
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    Mr. Fort?
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    MR. FORT: Thank you, Mr. Hearing
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    Officer. CITGO
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    and PDV Midwest, appreciate the opportunity
    to be before the Board and the Agency and
    working with both agencies on this project.
    The variance that we are seeking
    is part of a significant project by CITGO for
    environmental improvement. As the record
    shows, CITGO has entered into a consent
    agreement with U.S. EPA in four states,
    including Illinois. The Lemont Refinery is
    among three of the refineries covered by this
    consent decree
    The consent decree calls for
    significant emission reductions from these
    sources owned and/or operated by CITGO and
    related entities. A major part of the
    substantial reduction in sulfur dioxide
    nitrous oxide emissions required in that
    consent decree will come at the Lemont
    Refinery. So this project, overall project,
    has a significant environmental benefit to
    the people of the State of Illinois, and
    CITGO is firmly committed to meeting its
    obligations under that consent decree.
    This variance deals with total
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    dissolved solids in the wastewater and is
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    required only because of additions of total
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    dissolved solids to the Chicago Ship Canal
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    and Illinois River that arise completely
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    separate from and independent of the present
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    or future discharges of TDS by the CITGO
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    Lemont Refinery.
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    CITGO has included a substantial
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    amount of equipment in its design and
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    adjusted its design to minimize the
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    environmental effects of its wastewater
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    discharges from the wet gas scrubber, which
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    is the principal air emission reduction
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    technology being employed under the consent
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    decree. CITGO has been able to modify the
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    design and to achieve compliance with all
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    other wastewater parameters except for total
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    dissolved solids. And the TDS issue is not
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    caused by CITGO or the consent decree, but by
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    the snowmelt from road deicing activities.
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    As the Board knows, the test for
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    variance relief is whether or not the burden
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    on the petitioner outweighs the adverse
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    effect on the public. Here we believe the

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    record will show that there is no adverse
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    effect on the public as a result of grant of
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    this variance, yet there would be a
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    substantial burden on the petitioner if this
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    variance is not granted.
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    There is no adverse effect from
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    the sulfate or TDS levels that are projected
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    to result from the wet gas scrubber. IEPA,
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    in fact, is evaluating doing a water quality
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    rule change in light of these findings, which
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    we’ve included as Exhibit 10 to our evidence
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    here.
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    The relative effect of the TDS
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    discharge here is within the sampling
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    sensitivity of the instrumentation to sample
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    for TDS. We can do a mass balance
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    calculation, and we know that due to
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    snowmelt, there had been elevated levels of
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    TDS in the Illinois River. One cannot model
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    and verify it just because of the variability
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    in the sampling instruments.
    And
    Jim Huff’s
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    testimony will address that further.
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    Most importantly, there’s no
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    the discharge from the wet gas scrubber. We
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    approached IEPA about doing a deep well
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    injection, and that was rejected. CITGO
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    investigated sewering the discharge either to
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    the MSD, who told us they did not have the
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    capacity to handle the discharge, and the
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    existing wastewater treatment plant at the
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    refinery also does not have the capability of
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    handling this discharge from the wet gas
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    scrubber.
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    Existing tankage at the refinery
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    is not adequate nor available during the
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    runoff conditions, the very time that there
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    may be an issue in the Illinois River; and
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    that is, in part, due to upgrading of runoff
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    patterns in residential developments. Again,
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    Jim Huff’s testimony and Exhibit 5 are going
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    to go to those factors.
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    CITGO is under a very tight
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    compliance schedule for the Lemont Refinery
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    and subject to stipulated penalties by
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    U.S. EPA in Illinois under the consent decree
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    if we do not make that schedule, and the
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    lacking to do a refiling of the variance
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    petition with all the details requested even
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    though most of those details have been
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    discussed with the air division and the water
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    permitting division of Illinois EPA before we
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    filed this variance.
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    We requested a hearing in order to
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    expedite the Board ruling on this request and
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    to stay on schedule under the consent decree.
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    And we do appreciate the Agency and the Board
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    working on this tight schedule with us.
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    We’ve worked closely with IEPA and believe
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    they will issue a favorable recommendation
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    based upon the additional information and
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    additions provided in this record with
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    respect to this variance petition.
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    All the information that has been
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    provided informally to the Agency is included
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    in our exhibits and testimony today, and I
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    would particularly call your attention to
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    Exhibits 2 through 6. We had several
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    discussions with the Agency about the
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    conditions for this variance. The language
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    in a petition to address the Agency comments.
    The Board questions anticipated
    many of the facts that we were going to
    present. We revised our presentation to be
    responsive to the specific questions raised
    by the Board and to the questions raised by
    the Agency’s recommendation. And that comes
    in the testimony of Mr. Harmon and Mr. Huff.
    The revised compliance plan
    focuses on a continued monitoring and
    fine-tuning of the extent of TDS issues in
    the Illinois River. This provides data that
    is not otherwise routinely collected by IEPA
    and we believe will enhance the understanding
    of the snowmelt conditions. We believe this
    will provide information that the Agency
    might not otherwise have the funding to
    undertake and could lead to better
    understanding of the snowmelt phenomenon and
    perhaps yield ideas on how to reduce that
    impact
    During this time, CITGO will be
    evaluating ways to restrict its discharge
    during those events. We project being in
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    compliance, through whatever method becomes
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    necessary, within the five-year period of
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    this variance.
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    To answer a couple of the
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    questions of the Board, the relief is just
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    for TDS, total dissolved solids, not for
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    sulfates. The refinery address is 135th
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    Street and New Avenue in Lemont. Before the
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    site-specific rule change was adopted, the
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    refinery, then owned by Unical (phonetic),
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    underwent a series of variances relating to
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    ammonia nitrogen. Those variances led to and
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    were resolved by the site-specific effluent
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    standard at 35 Illinois Administrative
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    Code 304.213 for ammonia nitrogen, which were
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    adopted in rule-making proceedings, R84-13,
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    R93-8, and R98-14.
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    Last of all, we would ask the
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    Agency to confirm that they support the
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    variance and the conditions being presented
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    today based on this record.
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    MR. HALLORAN: Thank you, Mr. Fort.
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    Mr. Day?
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    opportunity to clarify some of the procedural
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    history and how that relates to the Agency’s
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    current position with respect to the
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    petition. At this point, at the opening of
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    the hearing, I am unable to grant Mr. Fort’s
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    request that the Agency state its support for
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    the petition.
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    As required by the Illinois
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    Environmental Protection Act and the rules
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    promulgated thereunder, our agency did
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    complete a review of this petition, and we
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    found two marked defects that prevented us
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    from recommending that the petition be
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    granted. The first of those, which of course
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    was noted in our recommendation for denial,
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    was that the consent order relied upon for
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    the justifications for seeking this variance
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    did not appear to be final or entered by a
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    court as the petition stood as filed.
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    Secondly, the compliance plan
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    included in the petition was lacking. That
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    compliance plan appeared at pages 11 and 12
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    Mr. Fort described, we’ve been in
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    communication with the applicant, the
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    petitioner, for many weeks now; and we have
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    had the opportunity to negotiate and review
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    all of the evidence and testimony which is
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    expected to be provided today.
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    Assuming that those exhibits meet
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    with our expectations and the testimony
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    follows what we’ve been led to expect, it is
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    a safe presumption that at the close of
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    today’s hearing, our agency will be in
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    support of this petition.
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    MR. HALLORAN: Okay. Thank you.
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    And with that said, I do want to
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    add that our technical unit has been
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    feverishly wading through the prefiled
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    testimony that was filed on February 17th,
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    and it may be necessary during the
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    posthearing briefing that they may have
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    additional questions regarding the prefiled
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    testimony or the testimony that’s about to
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    take place today. So I just want to let
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    do you want to address the prefiled
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    testimony?
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    MS. CARVER REID: Actually, we’d like
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    to enter the prefiled testimony of Mr. Claude
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    Harmon and Mr. James Huff, have it
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    transcribed into the record as if read here
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    today, so that we can be expeditious in this
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    matter and avoid delay by reading the actual
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    testimony that’s already been filed into the
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    record.
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    MR. HALLORAN:
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    MS. CARVER REID: Yes.
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    MR. HALLORAN: Mr. Day, do you have
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    any objection to that?
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    MR. DAY: No, I don’t.
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    MR. HALLORAN: Sure. That will be
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    done. We’ll give the prefiled testimony to
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    the court reporter, and she can transcribe it
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    into the record as if read.
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    MS. CARVER REID: Actually, I’d like
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    to swear in the witnesses and just have them
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    verify the content of the testimony.
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    MR. HALLORAN: Sure.

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    MS. CARVER REID: Our first witness is
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    going to be Mr. Claude Harmon.
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    (Witness sworn.)
    4 WHEREUPON:
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    CLAUDE W.
    HARMON
    6 called as a witness herein, having been first duly
    7 sworn, was examined and testified as follows:
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    EXAMINATION
    9 BY MS. CARVER REID:
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    Mr. Harmon, will you state your name
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    My name is Claude Harmon, H-A-R-M-O-N.
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    By whom are you currently employed?
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    CITGO Petroleum Corporation.
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    Will you please state your business
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    135th Street and New Avenue, Lemont,
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    And the zip code?
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    60439.
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    Mr. Harmon, what is your current title
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    I’m the environmental manager at the
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    And how long have you been in that
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    Since ‘94.
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    Was your testimony prefiled in this
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    Yes.
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    Is this that same prefiled testimony?
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    Yes.
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    Do you verify that your prefiled
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    Yes.
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    Q.
    Exhibits marked 1 through 15 were
    13 filed in support of your prefiled testimony. Do you
    14 verify that the contents of Exhibit 1 through 15 is
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    Yes.
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    MS. CARVER REID: At this time we
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    request that the prefiled testimony of Claude
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    MR. HALLORAN: Any objection, Mr. Day?
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    MR. DAY: No.
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    MR. HALLORAN: So be it.
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    TESTIMONY OF CLAUDE
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    My name is Claude Harmon. My current position
    3 is Environmental Manager for the Lemont Refinery.
    4 have had this responsibility since August 1994. I
    5 have been in the environmental field for 30 years
    6 including 16 years with the Illinois Central
    7 Railroad, two years with Morton International and
    8 12 years at the Lemont Refinery, which was first
    9 owned by UNO-VEN when I began and is now operated by
    10 CITGO. I received a Bachelor of Science degree in
    11 Environmental Biology from Eastern Illinois
    12 University. I am affiliated with various
    13 environmental committees. I am a member of the
    14 National Petroleum Refiners Association. I am a
    15 member of the Illinois Association of Environmental
    16 Professionals. I am also a Certified Hazardous
    17 Materials Manager with the National Registry of
    18 Environmental Professionals.
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    The purpose of my testimony is to describe the
    20 current efforts by CITGO and the Lemont Refinery to
    21 reduce the Lemont Refinery’s air and water
    22 emissions. The Illinois Pollution Control Board
    23 (the “Board”) already is aware of the Lemont
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    1 standard through regulatory proceedings (R84-13,
    2 P33-8 and R98-l4), which led to the current
    3 site-specific limitation for ammonia nitrogen for
    4 the Lemont Refinery at 35 IAC 304.213. Last fall,
    5 CITGO and PDV Midwest Refining, L.L.C. (collectively
    6 referred to as “CITGO”) completed negotiations with
    7 U.S. EPA and the environmental authorities for
    8 Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana, and New Jersey to
    9 substantially reduce emissions of 502 and NOx, by
    10 23,000 and 7,000 tons respectively, from three
    11 refineries including the Lemont Refinery and two
    12 asphalt plants. For the Lemont Refinery, the
    13 estimated SO2 and NOx emission reductions are 15,000
    14 and 1,100 tons respectively. That agreement was
    15 embodied in a consent decree that was approved on
    16 January 26, 2005; a copy of that signed consent
    17 decree is submitted as Exhibit 1.
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    The consent decree includes an ambitious
    19 construction and compliance schedule for the Lemont
    20 Refinery. To achieve the necessary reductions, the
    21 Lemont Refinery must install a wet gas scrubber in
    22 the Fluidized Catalytic Cracking Unit (“FCCU”), as
    23 well as substantial support equipment and controls.
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    approximately 20 months. Exhibit 2 is a copy of the
    compliance schedule for the Lemont Refinery to
    comply with the consent decree. Stipulated
    penalties and other sanctions may be imposed if
    CITGO does not meet the consent decree schedule.
    As described in our variance petition,, to meet
    the emission requirements of the consent decree, we
    are installing the wet gas scrubber in the FCCU, as
    well as other equipment at the Lemont Refinery.
    (See Exhibit 3 (construction permit drawings
    depicting the new equipment to be installed and a
    description of the same.)) The result is to
    increase the amount of total dissolved solids
    (“TDS”) in the Lemont Refinery treated wastewater.
    Exhibit 4 is a copy of the Variance Petition filed
    in this matter on November 8, 2q04, which contains
    further information
    One of the critical path items is to obtain a
    construction permit from the water division of
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (“IEPA”)
    Exhibit 5 is a copy of the application for that
    construction permit. On December 3, 2004, we
    submitted that construction permit application,
    consistent with the overall construction schedule.
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    1 In preliminary conversations with the water division
    2 of IEPA, we learned of two critical issues that pose
    3 challenges for the consent decree schedule. First,
    4 IEPA will not grant the construction permit without
    5 also issuing a modified National Pollutant Discharge
    6 Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit. Second,
    7 because there has been an exceedance of the TDS
    8 standard in the past, in association with snowmelt
    9 runoff, carrying road salt and similar compounds
    10 into the streams, IEPA could not issue a NPDES
    11 permit for this project unless CITGO obtained a
    12 variance from the Board. Hence, the variance
    13 petition was filed soon after the consent decree was
    14 announced publicly.
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    The Board has before it that variance petition.
    16 I will not repeat what we already have presented in
    17 this record. But I will respond to some of the
    18 questions propounded by the Board, as well as
    19 confirm certain information that we presented to
    20 IEPA since we began this petition process.
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    DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
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    (Responses to Board Questions 4a, 4b)
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    No specific projects are being developed that
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    no impact on the amount of TDS and sulfates
    discharged
    The chemical used in the wet gas scrubbing
    process was described as “Caustic” in the
    construction permit application submitted to IEPA in
    December 2004 (Exhibit 5)
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    “Caustic” references a
    Sodium Hydroxide solution
    PROJECTED WATER QUALITY IMPACTS
    (Responses to Board Questions 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d)
    TDS tests for the wastewater treatment plant
    (“WWTP”) discharge are run on a weekly basis. Below
    are monthly averages for year 2004:
    Yr 2004
    TDS (ppm)
    January
    2493
    February
    2644
    March
    2183
    April
    2244
    May
    1977
    June
    1474
    July
    1680
    August
    1504
    September
    1699
    October
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    2 concentrations of both TDS and sulfates in the purge
    3 water from the wet gas scrubber were described in
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    5 IEPA in December 2004 (Exhibit 5)
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    10 Quality” (Exhibit 6.)
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    DETAILED COMPLIANCE PLAN
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    The proposed wet gas scrubber will impact the
    14 TDS and sulfate levels in the refinery’s effluent
    15 once the unit becomes operational. The expected
    16 concentrations of both TDS and sulfates in the
    17 discharge are described in James Huff’s December
    18 2004 report “Impact of CITGO’s Proposed Discharge on
    19 Water Quality” (Exhibit 6) and the construction
    20 permit application submitted to IEPA in December
    21 2004 (Exhibit 5)
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    1 plan requires that extensive TDS data be taken from
    2 the Des Plaines River at the 1-55 Bridge during the
    3 winter months. Following two seasons of stream
    4 testing, the Lemont Refinery will be able to size
    5 the required holding tank or basin for the wet gas
    6 scrubber discharge during periods of high salinity.
    7 The project for the retention system would commence
    8 by March 1, 2009. The project would be completed by
    9 the winter season beginning December 1, 2009.
    10
    OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
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    (Response to Board Question lOf)
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    Currently, the only option for a managed
    13 release program would entail using the storm water
    14 basin (“SWB”) for retention. The SWB is used to
    15 collect site storm water runoff and drainage from
    16 naturally existing waterways. Over the last few
    17 years, a pronounced increase in storm water volume
    18 has occurred due to residential developments near
    19 the northwest facility boundary. The runoff from
    20 these developments feeds into the naturally existing
    21 waterways that terminate within the Lemont
    22 Refinery’s boundaries and ultimately end up in the
    23 SWB. Due to a special condition in the Groundwater
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    Bureau of Water Permit section, the SWB water level
    must be managed below l2’9” due to the groundwater
    gradient. Because of the existing difficulties
    associated with managing the water level below 12’9”
    with the additional burden created by the increased
    storm water runoff volume from residential
    developments, to try to retain the wet gas scrubber
    effluent during periods of snowmelt and deicing
    would not be a viable option at this time. However,
    strategies to divert the residential runoff prior to
    crossing the Lemont Refinery boundaries are being
    pursued. If a diversion project is implemented,
    retention of the wet gas scrubber effluent (due to
    snowmelt conditions) in the SWB may be feasible.
    MS. CARVER REID: We have a second
    witness that I’d also like to verify, do the
    same and verify his testimony as well.
    MR. HALLORAN: Okay. Do you want to
    do that now? Or I thought we’d take care of
    Mr. Harmon first and then
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    Let’s take care
    of Mr. Harmon first
    Do you have any direct, such as it
    is, of Mr. Harmon?
    MS. CARVER REID: No, I don’t.
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    MR. HALLORAN: Mr. Day?
    MR. DAY: No questions for Mr. Harmon.
    MR. HALLORAN: I’m going to turn it
    over to the technical unit, Mr. Rao or
    Ms. Liu.
    MR. FORT: If I could just make a
    point here, it may be that some of the
    questions that are directed at Mr. Harmon,
    Mr. Huff is going to be also
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    in a better position to answer, because they
    worked together on this project.
    MR. HALLORAN: Let’s swear him in.
    (Witness sworn.)
    WHEREUPON:
    JAMES E. HUFF, P.E.
    called as a witness herein, having been first duly
    sworn, was examined and testified as follows:
    EXAMINATION
    BY MS. CARVER REID
    Q.
    Mr. Huff, will you please state your
    name and spell your last name for the record?
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    James E. Huff, H-U-F-F
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    The consulting firm Huff & Huff, Inc.
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    Will you please state the business
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    512 West Burlington Avenue, LaGrange,
    4 Illinois 60525.
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    And can you tell us when Huff & Huff,
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    1979.
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    Mr. Huff, was your prefiled testimony
    9 filed in this matter on February 17th, 2005?
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    Do you verify that your prefiled
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    As you are aware, Exhibits 1 through
    18 15 were filed in support of your prefiled testimony.
    19 Do you verify that the contents of Exhibits 1
    20 through 15 is true and correct?
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    MR. HALLORAN: Mr. Day, any objection?
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    MR. DAY: No.
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    TESTIMONY OF JAMES E. HUFF
    5
    My name is James E. Huff. I am Vice President
    6 and part owner of Huff & Huff, Inc., an
    7 environmental consulting firm founded in 1979. I
    8 received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical
    9 Engineering in 1970 from Purdue University and was
    10 awarded a Masters of Science in Engineering from the
    11 Environmental Engineering Department at Purdue
    12 University in 1971. I am a registered Professional
    13 Engineer in Illinois as well as in New Jersey.
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    I currently serve on the Board of Directors for
    15 the American Council of Engineering Companies-IL and
    16 served three years as Chair of the Illinois
    17 Environmental Protection Agency Liaison Committee
    18 for the same organization. I also serve on the
    19 Illinois Statewide Nutrient Science Committee, which
    20 is charged with proposing state nutrient standards,
    21 and am the lead consultant for the Northeastern
    22 Illinois Planning Commission (“NIPC”) for evaluating
    23 Facility Planning Amendment requests for consistency
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    My work experience includes two years with
    Mobil Oil as an Advanced Environmental Engineer
    during the construction and start-up of the Joliet
    Refinery. My responsibilities at the Joliet
    Refinery included the construction oversight and
    start-up of the wastewater treatment facilities,
    technical support for the wastewater treatment
    including sampling, discharge monitoring reports,
    and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
    (“NPDES”) permit preparation. From this experience,
    I am familiar with refinery operations and the
    associated wastewater treatment, as well as the
    Des Plaines River
    After leaving Mobil in the fall of 1973, I was
    employed for three years at ITT Research Institute
    in the Chemical Engineering Department, working on
    advanced wastewater treatment projects including
    catalytic oxidation of cyanide in petroleum
    wastewaters. I also assisted in preparing the
    Economic Impact/Cost-Benefit Analysis on a proposed
    total dissolved solids (“TDS”) rule change in
    Illinois. I then spent four years with Armak
    Company, now called Akzo Nobel Chemicals. I was the
    Corporate Manager of Environmental Affairs
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    1 responsible for regulatory compliance and
    2 engineering design of environmental systems at nine
    3 manufacturing facilities in the United States and
    4 Canada including fatty amines plants in McCook and
    5 Morris, Illinois.
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    For the last 25 years at Huff & Huff, Inc., I
    7 have been involved in over 30 environmental impact
    8 studies associated with the impact of wastewater
    9 discharges on receiving streams throughout the
    10 United States. Some of these studies have involved
    11 TDS, sulfates, and chlorides. Surveys I have been
    12 involved with in Illinois have included the
    13 following streams: Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal,
    14 Des Plaines River, Casey Fork Creek, Aux Sable
    15 Creek, Flint Creek, Mill Creek, Thorn Creek, Kent
    16 Creek, Fox River, Mississippi River, Deer Run Creek,
    17 Salt Fork of the Saline River, Cedar Creek, Tyler
    18 Creek, Kishwaukee River. These stream surveys have
    19 included water quality, fish, macroinvertebrate,
    20 mussels and sediment quality. I also have completed
    21 mixing zone studies on the large streams listed
    22 above.
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    I have worked with the Lemont Refinery for the
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    1 two adjusted standards relating to ammonia, a mixing
    2 zone study, collection of macroinvertebrates in the
    3 Ship Canal, modeling of ammonia from the Lemont
    4 Refinery all the way down the Illinois River,
    5 preparation of a Storm Water Pollution Prevention
    6 Plan for the Lemont Refinery, and preparation of
    7 environmental training modules for a variety of
    8 subjects.
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    I have been retained by CITGO Petroleum
    10 Corporation’s Lemont Refinery to assist in the
    11 evaluation of alternatives for the wastewater stream
    12 generated by the new FCC wet gas scrubber,
    13 identifying water quality impacts, preparing the
    14 construction permit and NPDES permit modification
    15 applications, and providing technical support on the
    16 variance petition. A copy of my resume is presented
    17 in Exhibit 8.
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    Presented herein is a description of the areas
    19 I have investigated that are related to the variance
    20 petition, which incorporates questions raised by the
    21 Illinois Pollution Control Board (the “Board”) and
    22 Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (“IEPA” or
    23 the “Agency”) in these same areas.
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    APPLICABLE REGULATIONS
    The requested variance is for TDS in the
    Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and the Des Plaines
    River. The wet gas scrubber discharge will contain
    significant sodium sulfate, which essentially is the
    source of the TDS subject to the variance request.
    To the 1-55 Bridge, the Des Plaines River is
    classified as a Secondary Contact waterway with a
    TDS water quality standard of 1,500 mg/L. From the
    1-55 Bridge downstream, the Des Plaines River is
    classified as General Use with a TDS water quality
    standard of 1,000 mg/L
    There are no water quality standards on sodium.
    The sulfate General Use water quality standard is
    500 mg/L. There is no Secondary Contact water
    quality standard for sulfate. The proposed
    discharge will not cause or contribute to a sulfate
    water quality exceedance, and therefore a variance
    for the sulfate component is not requested.
    EXISTING WATER QUALITY DATA
    (Responses to Board Questions 7a and lOb; IEPA
    Recommendation Comments 15 and 19)
    The Lemont Refinery has collected TDS samples
    from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal weekly from
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    1 1998 to 2005. Exhibit 9 presents these eight-plus
    2 years of data, collected upstream of the Lemont
    3 Refinery’s wastewater discharge. To date, no TDS
    4 water quality exceedances were recorded in 1998,
    5 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005. In 2002,
    6 one exceedance occurred on March 8, 2002 when a TDS
    7 level of 1,636 mg/L was recorded.
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    A previously submitted document entitled
    9 “Impact of CITGO’s Proposed Discharge on Water
    10 Quality” (Exhibit 6) contains TDS data collected by
    11 the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of
    12 Greater Chicago (“MWRDGC”) on the same waterway from
    13 2000 to 2002. At the Lockport Lock & Dam,
    14 downstream of the Lemont Refinery outfall, on TDS
    15 exceedance (1,595 mg/L) was documented on January 4,
    16 2001.. (The Lemont Refinery recorded 1,408 mg/L on
    17 January 5, 2001.) At the next station, Jefferson
    18 Street in Joliet, one TDS exceedance (1,535 mg/L)
    19 was recorded on February 24, 2000. Further
    20 downstream at the Empress casino, one exceedance
    21 (1,867 mg/L) was recorded also on February 24, 2000.
    22 At the 1-55 Bridge, where the General Use water
    23 quality standard begins, the 1,000 mg/L standard was
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    1 mg/L, 1/25/2001
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    3 three consecutive sampling events, implying that the
    4 TDS excursion was persistent for at least 15 days.
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    A review of all the TDS data (Exhibits 6 and 9)
    6 reveals that all of the elevated TDS readings occur
    7 in the winter, and are attributable to snowmelt
    8 runoff carrying salt runoff from highway deicing
    9 activities. The Agency’s Recommendation Comment 15
    10 states that no information has been provided between
    11 the discharge and downstream water quality standard
    12 violation. Assuming during snowmelt the streams are
    13 at their harmonic mean flow, the flow at the 1-55
    14 Bridge would be 3,690 cfs. This is a conservative
    15 flow estimate. At 1,000 mg/L TDS, this translates
    16 into 20,000, 000 pounds per day of TDS passing
    17 beneath the 1-55 Bridge. The Lemont Refinery wet
    18 gas scrubber will contribute an average 215,000
    19 pounds per day, or approximately 11 mg/L, or 1
    20 percent of the total loading under this scenario.
    21 According to Standard Methods, the precision of the
    22 TDS test method with a known sample TDS
    23 concentration of 293 mg/L when tested in 77 samples
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    essence, the contribution from the Lemont Refinery
    will be less than the precision of this test when
    the Des Plaines River exceeds 1,000 mg/L. Note,
    when the 1,902 mg/L TDS was recorded in the
    Des Plaines River, this is equivalent to 38,000,000
    pounds per day of TDS, and the Lemont Refinery’s
    contribution would be on the order of 0.6 percent of
    the total loading
    There is a strong correlation between the
    upstream TDS readings and the downstream TDS
    readings. This is to be expected as TDS is
    considered a “conservative” pollutant; that is,
    there is little or no reduction due to chemical or
    biological processes. In addition, the
    preponderance of flow at the 1-55 Bridge originates
    from the Chicago Area, so there is limited
    dilutional effects until further downstream.
    TOXICITY/FUTURE POSSIBLE CHANGES IN WATER QUALITY
    Water quality standards historically have been
    developed based on toxicity. As TDS is composed of
    a variety of anions and cations, there are no
    “toxicity” values that can be applied to the generic
    TDS parameter. Sulfates and chlorides make up the
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    1 typically are regulated. In Illinois for General
    2 Use waters, TDS, sulfates and chlorides all are
    3 regulated.
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    Several years ago, IEPA began a detailed review
    5 of these water quality standards that by early 2004
    6 led the Agency to hold a stakeholders’ meeting. The
    7 Agency, at this point, believed that technical data
    8 supported elimination of the TDS water quality
    9 standard and increasing the sulfate General Use
    10 limit to approximately 1,800 mg/L. Information
    11 provided to the stakeholders by the Agency on this
    12 issue is included in Exhibit 10.
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    U.S. EPA’s review of the Agency’s work has lead
    14 to additional toxicity testing by the State of
    15 Illinois, which is ongoing and expected to be
    16 completed by September 2005. If the additional
    17 toxicity tests are consistent with the previous
    18 research, the Agency is expected to propose these
    19 changes in water quality standards in the fourth
    20 quarter of 2005.
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    The Agency’s efforts are relevant to the Lemont
    22 Refinery’s petition, as it goes to the environmental
    23 impact the proposed discharge will have; that is,
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    1 will not impact the aquatic community in the Chicago
    2 Sanitary and Ship Canal or in the Des Plaines River.
    3 There is no adverse effect on aquatic life due to
    4 TDS and sulfate levels.
    5
    PROJECTED EFFLUENT CONTRIBUTION
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    The projected effluent contribution was
    8 described in my report, “Impact of CITGO’s Proposed
    9 Discharge on Water Quality” (Exhibit 6), and will
    10 average 215,000 pounds per day of TDS. The loadings
    11 were further described in the construction permit
    12 application submitted to IEPA in December 2004
    13 (Exhibit 5), and also in the~NPDES permit
    14 modification application submitted to the Agency in
    15 August 2004 (Exhibit 11)
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    Exhibit 12 is a copy of
    16 the existing NPDES permit.
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    PROJECTED WATER QUALITY IMPACTS
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    The projected incremental increase in both TDS
    20 and sulfates in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
    21 and in the Des Plaines River were described in my
    22 December 2004 report “Impact of CITGO’s Proposed
    23 Discharge on Water Quality” (Exhibit 6). This
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    1 flow rates in the streams, and relied on the 1992
    2 mixing zone study completed by Huff & Huff, Inc.,
    3 for the Lemont Refinery. (This mixing zone study
    4 was provided to the Board as part of the Lemont
    5 Refinery’s Ammonia Adjusted Standard request,
    6 R93-8.) The effluent design has not changed since
    7 that study, and remains valid with the added flow of
    8 274,000 gallons per day from the wet gas scrubber.
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    ALTERNATIVES
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    Board Questions 8 and lOf)
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    Huff & Huff, Inc., considered several
    13 alternatives for this 274,000 gallons per day
    14 stream. Deep well disposal initially was evaluated
    15 along with direct discharge. The Agency determined
    16 that the injection of this waste stream would
    17 constitute a Class I underground injection well in
    18 Illinois. (See Exhibit 13.) Class I wells require
    19 injection beneath a cap rock that will prevent
    20 migration upwards into higher aquifers.
    21 Northeastern Illinois does not have a cap rock above
    22 the Mount Simon formation used for disposal wells
    23 throughout the Midwest, and therefore this
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    Based on the TDS stakeholders’ meeting in early
    2004, direct discharge appeared to be the logical
    alternative to deep well disposal. I had
    anticipated that the Agency TDS and sulfate rule
    change would have gone to the Board by mid-2004,
    which possibly would have made this variance request
    unnecessary. This did not happen, and the Agency
    position that the addition of this wastewater stream
    would contribute to the existing TDS violations that
    periodically occur due to salt runoff from highway
    deicing activities leads to this variance request.
    The Board has heard numerous requests over the
    years for variances from the TDS water quality
    standards and these requests consistently have found
    evaporation technology cost- and energy-prohibitive.
    The evaporation costs are described in Exhibit 14.
    These costs were derived from Rhodia’s adjusted
    standard request, using scale-up factors.
    TDS COMPLIANCE PLAN AND SCHEDULE
    Exhibit 7 is a proposed TDS compliance
    commitment, which includes tasks and schedules. The
    plan calls for extensive TDS data collection from
    the Des Plaines River at the 1-55 Bridge during the
    winter months. After two seasons of stream testing,
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    1 the Lemont Refinery will be in a position to size
    2 the necessary holding tank or basin for the wet gas
    3 scrubber discharge during periods of high salinity.
    4 Physical construction of the holding tank or basin
    5 would begin by March 1, 2009, and construction would
    6 be complete f or the winter season beginning
    7 December 1, 2009.
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    RESPONSES TO BOARD QUESTIONS 5, 7b, lOb, lUe, 12
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    5. Clarify whether Best Available Technology
    10 (“BAT”) applies only to ammonia.
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    In the testimony of Robert Stein of Aware
    12 (R98-14), Mr. Stein compared the entire wastewater
    13 treatment facilities to the federal BAT
    14 requirements. Mr. Stein concluded: “olur analysis
    15 of the Lemont Refinery wastewater treatment system
    16 indicates that it exceeds the BAT technology for
    17 refinery wastewater treatment as presented in the
    18 1982 U.S. EPA Development Document.” The BAT
    19 determination applied to the total wastewater
    20 stream, not just those that applied to ammonia.
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    22 better define the impact on water quality
    23 violations?
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    1 conservative pollutant, so modeling after mixing
    2 essentially is a mass balance. A mass balance
    3 approach was used to predict the incremental change
    4 and average TDS and sulfate levels with the addition
    5 of the proposed discharge. This was presented in my
    6 December 2004 report, “Impact of CITGO’s Proposed
    7 Discharge on Water Quality” (Exhibit 6). The mixing
    8 zone study from 1992 was utilized in this same
    9 report.
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    lOb. Please comment on the impact of the
    11 sulfate loading.
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    The sulfate impact is presented in my December
    13 2004 Report “Impact of CITGO’s Proposed Discharge on
    14 Water Quality” (Exhibit 6), and will amount to an
    15 average of 142,000 pounds per day.
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    be. Please indicate if the current and
    17 amended NPDES permits allow for mixing of
    18 Outfall 001.
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    The mixing zone study was part of the record in
    20 the Lemont Refinery’s Adjusted Standard request
    21 (R93-8), and was incorporated in P38-14. This
    22 mixing zone study was an integral part of the
    23 ammonia adjusted standard, which was relied upon by
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    1 Based on this, the answer is yes, the current and
    2 amended NPDES permits allow for mixing.
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    12. Would you propose interim effluent limits
    4 on TDS and sulfates? Would you propose monitoring?
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    A proposed TDS compliance plan has been
    6 submitted as Exhibit 7. This compliance plan
    7 includes extensive stream monitoring.
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    Interim effluent limits are not proposed.
    9 First, no water quality violations of the sulfate
    10 water quality standard will occur; therefore, there
    11 is no basis for sulfate effluent limits.
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    For TDS, it is clear that the TDS water quality
    13 violations are due solely to salt runoff from
    14 highway deicing activities. The proposed discharge
    15 will not change this fact. Limiting the discharge
    16 from the Lemont Refinery, if possible, would not
    17 change the number of TDS water quality violations in
    18 the Ship Canal or at the 1-55 Bridge, as the FCC wet
    19 gas scrubber will be contributing on the order of
    20 1 percent of the total salinity loading during these
    21 excursions.
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    1 does not necessarily lead to a more restrictive
    2 permit limit or enforcement action. As noted by the
    3 Agency in a letter from Dean J. Studer, Supervisor,
    4 Southern Municipal Unit, Permit Section of IEPA, to
    5 Steven Davis, Galesburg Sanitary District, November
    6 15, 2004:
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    he intent of the Agency was, and
    7 still is, that a District action must be responsible
    8 for a violation of the water quality standard before
    9 it is considered a permit violation.” (See
    10 Exhibit 15.) The Lemont Refinery request also would
    lb seem similar to the Village of Wauconda’s recent
    12 NPDES permit, where the Agency, with knowledge of
    13 dissolved oxygen violations downstream, concluded
    14 that lowering the effluent BOD5 limit was not
    15 necessary “since it is believed that this effluent
    16 will not cause or contribute to a violation of water
    17 quality standards.” (Response to Comments,
    18 Questions and Concerns regarding the Village of
    19 Wauconda’s NPDES Permit, at p. 13.) As further
    20 noted by the Agency, “this informatin is limited;
    21 the extent to which it is representative of normal
    22 stream conditions and its relationship to Wauconda
    23 discharge is unknown.” The Agency included
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    1 Wauconda to collect additional data, and the Lemont
    2 Refinery’s Compliance Plan includes a similar data
    3 gathering period.
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    The Lemont Refinery will have no control over
    S the TDS concentrations, so the only possibility to
    6 control the pounds per day discharged is by limiting
    7 the discharge rate. This means the Lemont Refinery
    8 essentially would have to hold treated effluent.
    9 Presumably, if the Des Plaines River TDS is greater
    10 than 1,000 mg/L at the 1-55 Bridge, the Lemont
    11 Refinery would have to cease all discharge. Today,
    12 there is no storage capacity at the Lemont Refinery
    13 to achieve this. concept. As described earlier in my
    14 testimony, these violations appear to occur for over
    15 15 consecutive days, but less than 22 days. The
    16 Lemont Refinery will have to come up with in excess
    17 of 4,000,000 gallons of capacity to isolate the wet
    18 gas scrubber during these periods of elevated TDS
    19 levels at the 1-55 Bridge. Currently, this excess
    20 capacity does not exist, and the actual number of
    21 days that would require holding wet gas scrubber
    22 water currently is poorly understood. The requested
    23 compliance time frame is for the collection of the
    24 necessary data to properly size this holding

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    1 basin/tankage. Providing some interim effluent TDS
    2 limit will provide no benefit to the receiving
    3 water, based on the Agency-generated information
    4 contained in Exhibit 10.
    5
    MR. HALLORAN: Any cross?
    6
    MR. DAY: No.
    7
    MR. HALLORAN: Thank you.
    8
    Now I’ll turn it over to the
    9
    technical unit. Mr. Rao or Ms. Liu?
    10
    MS. LID: I don’t have anything right
    11
    now.
    12
    MR. PAO: Same here.
    13
    MR. HALLORAN: So these are the only
    14
    two witnesses that are here today?
    15
    MS. CARVER REID: Yes, sir.
    16
    MR. HALLORAN: Off the record for a
    17
    minute.
    18
    (Discussion off the record.)
    19
    MR. HALLORAN: We’re back on the
    20
    record.
    21
    Mr. Day, it appears that CITGO
    22
    has
    --
    petitioners have rested their case in
    23
    chief.
    24
    Is that correct, Ms. Carver Reid?

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    1
    MS. CARVER REID: I have one more
    2
    item. I would like to, at this time, enter
    3
    what has been marked as Exhibits 1 through
    4
    15, in support of the prefiled testimony,
    5
    into the record as evidence in this
    6
    proceeding today.
    7
    MR. HALLORAN: Mr. Day, any objection?
    8
    MR. DAY: No.
    9
    MR. HALLORAN: The written testimony
    10
    itself will be transcribed into the
    11
    transcript. The exhibits will not. They
    12
    will just be a part of the record. Is that
    13
    fair enough?
    14
    MS. CARVER REID: Yes. Thank you.
    15
    MR.. HALLORAN: Mr. Day, you’re on.
    16
    MR. DAY: With the entry of these
    17
    exhibits and the submission of the testimony
    18
    of Mr. Harmon and Mr. Huff, the petitioner
    19
    has met with the expectations that I
    20
    described earlier of our agency. The defects
    21
    that we had noted in our initial review of
    22
    the testimony have been cured, and our agency
    23
    is prepared to support the petitioner at this
    24
    point; and we will enter no further testimony

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    1
    here today.
    2
    MR. HALLORAN: Okay. Thank you,
    3
    Mr. Day. You’ve rested your case in chief?
    4
    MR. DAY: Yes.
    5
    MR. HALLORAN: Any rebuttal from the
    6
    petitioner?
    7
    MS. CARVER REID: No.
    8
    MR. HALLORAN: Any closings from the
    9
    petitioner or the respondent?
    10
    MS. CARVER REID: No.
    11
    MR. HALLORAN: Okay. We can go off
    12
    .
    the record.
    13
    (Discussion off the record.)
    14 BY MR. HALLORAN:
    15
    Q.
    We’ve been off the record talking
    16 about posthearing briefs. And we’ve agreed that it
    17 appears that the technical unit from the Illinois
    18 Pollution Control Board will have your questions, if
    19 any, submitted to the petitioner on or before
    20 March 3rd.
    21
    And then we’ve decided that we’re
    22 going to be filing simultaneous posthearing briefs
    23 or responses, such as they are, on or before
    24 March 15th. And there’s been an agreement that the

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    parties will overnight their responses or briefs on
    March 14th so everybody will have it on March 15th.
    Basically the no-mailbox rule will apply
    March 21st, simultaneous replies, if any, are due
    then. And I’m going to set public comment; the
    close for that is
    --
    public comment is due on or
    before March 4th
    I think that’s about it. But I do
    have to make a credibility determination. And based
    on my legal expertise, observations, I find that
    there are no credibility issues with the witnesses
    that have testified here today
    Have I forgotten anything?
    It doesn’t look that I have. So
    in any event, thanks for coming. And this hearing
    is now concluded. Thank you.
    (Which were all the proceedings
    had in the above-entitled cause.)
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    1 STATE OF ILLINOIS
    SS.
    2 COUNTY OF COOK
    3
    4
    Kathy A. O’Donnell, being first duly sworn,
    5 on oath says that she is a Registered Professional
    6 Reporter doing business in the City of Chicago,
    7 County of Cook and the State of Illinois;
    8
    That she reported in shorthand the
    9 proceedings had at the foregoing Illinois Pollution
    10 Control Board hearing;
    11
    And that the foregoing is a true and
    12 correct transcript of her shorthand notes so taken
    13 as aforesaid and contains all the proceedings had at
    14 the said Illinois Pollution Control Board hearing.
    17
    KATHY A. O’DONNELL, RPR
    18
    CSR No. 084-004466
    19 SUBSCRIBED AND SW,QRN TO
    b~for~me this
    I
    day of
    20
    _______________
    ,
    A.D., 2005.
    23
    NOTA Y PUBLIC
    OFFICIAL SEAL
    24
    KIMBERLY A MEEKS
    NOTARY PUBLIC
    -
    STATE OF ILLINOIS
    MY COMMISSION EXPIRES:12/17/07

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    24th 1:20 4:10
    2493 23:14
    25 31:6
    26 20:16
    2644 23:14
    27 3:9
    274,000 39:8,13
    293 35:23
    3
    321:10,22
    3rd 48:20
    3,690 35:14
    3/16/2000 34:24
    30 19:5 31:7
    304.213 13:15
    20:4
    312 2:5,9
    35 13:14 20:4
    38,000,000
    36:5
    4
    421:1534:15
    4a
    22:22
    4b 22:22
    4th 49:7
    4,000,000 45:17
    5
    5 10:17 21:21 23:6 24:1,5
    24:21 34:17 38:13 41:8
    41:9
    5-85
    5:17
    500 33:15
    512 28:3
    6
    6
    11:21 24:10,19 34:10
    35:5
    38:6,9,23 42:7,14
    6a23:9
    6b23:9
    6c23:9
    6d23:9
    60439 17:20
    60525 28:4
    60601 2:5
    60606 2:9 6:7
    62794 2:13
    7
    7 11:24
    24:24 40:20 43:6
    7a33:21
    7b
    41:8,21
    7,000 20:10
    7-day 38:24
    7735:23
    782-0610 2:13
    8
    821:1632:1734:639:11
    8000
    2:8 6:6
    814-8917 2:5
    876-2380 2:9
    9
    34:1
    35:5
    9a 24: 12
    9b 24:12
    9:00 1:24
    9:05 4:11
    94 18:3
    9

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