ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November

8,

1972

In the Matter of

#R 71—23

EMISSION STANDARDS

Opinion

& Order on Motion for Extension of Permit Date

(by Mr. Currie):

The Agency asks

us

to grant a three-month extension

of the date on which operating permits will be required for

domestic animal feed grinding mills because the Agency will

soon ask the Board to revise the emission regulations appli-

cable to such operations.

The request is made ‘~pursuantto

Rule

103

(b) (2) (B)u of

the air regulations adopted by this

Board, PCB Regs., Ch.

2,

Rule 103

(b) (2) (B)

We find no authority in the cited rule for this Board

to grant any extensions of permit dates.

The Agency itself

is authorized to allow certain extensions in order to cope

with an otherwise unmanageable workload, but that

does not seem to cover the present case.

The only authority

this Board has to allow deviations

from the regulations

is the statutory variance procedure, which has not been

invoked, and which provides important safeguards

for the

interests of the public.

Rule 103

(b) (2) (B)

does not,

even

if it could,

authorize us

to bypass these im—

portant procedures.

Cf.

Incinerator,

Inc.

v.

EPA,

#72—416,

5 PCB

(Nov.

8,

1972)

The request is hereby denied.

I,

Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board,

certify

that

the

Board

adopted

the

above

Opinion

&

Order

on

Motion for Extension of Permit Date this

~

day of

____________________

1972,

by a vote of

5..a

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