ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September 13, 1990
    PETER ARENDOVICH
    PATRICIA LISTEPNANN
    Complainants,
    V.
    )
    PCB 88—127
    (Enforcement)
    KOPPERS COMPANY,
    INC.,
    )
    Respondent.
    MR. PETER ARENDOVICH
    AND
    MS. PATRICIA LISTERNANN, APPEARED PRO
    SE;
    AND
    MR. CHESTER
    R. BABST III
    AND
    MR. JOSEPH K. REINHART, ATTORNEYS AT
    LAW, APPEARED ON BEHALF OF RESPONDENT.
    OPINION
    AND
    ORDER OF THE BOARD BY
    (3.
    C.
    Marlin):
    On February
    8,
    1990, the Board entered an Interim Opinion
    and Order in this matter. which found by a 4-3 vote that Koppers
    Company,
    Inc.
    (Koppers) had violated Section 9 of the
    Environmental Protection Act.
    That Interim Opinion and Order
    found that emissions of naphthalene and creosote odors from the
    Koppers’ facility were unreasonable and constituted
    a substantial
    interference with the enjoyment of life and property of the
    complainants.
    After making that finding, the Board retained
    jurisdiction and ordered Koppers to prepare and submit a report
    on the methods,
    costs,
    and timing of pollution control strategies
    taken by Koppers and planned for the future.
    Koppers filed its
    report, compiled by Mittlehauser Corporation,
    a chemical
    engineering company, on April
    25,
    1990.
    Petitioner, Peter
    Arendovich,
    filed comments on May 24,
    1990.
    The report filed by Koppers corrects a deficiency
    in the
    record of this matter.
    The report details Koppers efforts to
    control the air emissions from various equipment and operations.
    Repairs and modifications that have been completed include the
    repair or replacement of hatches and vents on a number of
    systems,
    the renovation of the distillation vacuum system,
    and
    the installation of inert gas purge systems to reduce vapor
    emissions during the cleaning of transmission lines.
    Other
    control strategies in the process of being completed include the
    modification and upgrading of the “F-2” topped tar fume recovery
    system.
    The report also specifies three emission sources where
    future improvements are being investigated.
    Koppers
    is
    conducting an evaluation of the available odor abatement
    115—05
    technologies for the creosote blending and loading storage tanks.
    A similar study
    is being conducted for the naphthalene unloading
    process.
    An evaluation has already been completed on the options
    for connecting the coal tar feed tanks to the fume system,
    F—2,
    or the addition of a new fume system.
    The report states that
    that study led Koppers to a determination that both options would
    not be cost effective.
    Mr. Arendovich, one of the petitioners, criticized the
    report and the improvements made at the Koppers’ plant.
    He
    stated that the creosote odors still occur and interfere with his
    enjoyment of life and property.
    Mr. Arendovich would like to see
    a monitoring system installed at the Koppers Plant.
    The Board will accept Koppers’ report and commitment to
    improve
    its operations.
    Koppers
    is hereby ordered to continue
    efforts to minimize odor emissions and finish the projects listed
    in the report submitted to the Board on April
    25.
    This Final
    Order does not preclude other enforcement actions being brought
    against Koppers if the violations continue.
    The foregoing discussions, together with those included in
    the February 8,
    1990 Interim Order, constitute the Board’s
    findings of facts and conclusions of law in this matter.
    ORDER
    For the foregoing reasons, the Board hereby Orders Koppers
    Company, Inc.,
    respondent, to undertake and perform Item Numbers
    I through XII of Table 4-1 from the “Illinois Pollution Control
    Board Report submitted to the Board on April 25,
    1990.
    A copy
    Of
    Table 4-1 is appended to the Order.
    In addition, Koppers
    is to
    add a yearly inspection of all hatches and vents within the vent
    maintenance program.
    Koppers shall cease and desist from all
    violations of the Act and Board regulations.
    Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act,
    I11.Rev.Stat.1989,
    ch.
    111
    1/2, par.
    1041, provides for appeal of
    final Orders of the Board within 35 days.
    The Rules of the
    Supreme Court of Illinois establish filing requirements.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    Board Members
    J.
    D.
    Dumelle and B. Forcade dissented.
    I,
    Dorothy M.
    Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify that the above Order was adopted on the
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    day of
    v’:
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    ,
    1990,
    by
    a vote of
    7
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    Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    115—06
    IMPLFHENIAIION
    OF
    FM
    COHTROIS
    SINCE
    AUGUST
    •
    88
    Item
    Emission
    Additional
    Additional
    Esthnated
    No.
    Source
    Cnnt
    rot
    Measure
    Cost
    X
    of
    Reduc
    t
    ion
    V.
    Coat
    Tar
    Unloading
    (1)
    Maintain ten~erelu,e
    monitoring
    10
    88
    None
    10
    (2)
    Continue
    water
    caps
    on
    tanks
    10-88
    None
    II.
    Coat
    Tar Feed Tanks
    Investigated feasibility of connecting
    tanks
    to 1-2
    ftsne
    system.
    12-89
    Hot Cost
    Ifte
    t
    ive
    III.
    Coat
    Tar Distillation
    tar distillation
    vucutla
    system
    renovated.
    1-90
    $?6S~O00
    IV.
    Dchyth-at ion Water
    (1) Decanter
    emissions
    are
    burned
    in
    Storage
    the
    tube
    heater,
    On-Going
    (2) Floating oils are pu~edto tank
    #13.
    On-Going
    (3)
    Effluent
    srat~ is Txm’t,ed to
    tanks
    Nil
    arid
    Ni8.
    On-Going
    Refined
    Chemical
    Oil
    (1)
    Inspect
    existing storage system.
    11-88
    ---
    90
    Storage
    (2) Repair worn hatches
    arid vents.
    12-88
    t
    5.000
    (3) Cor~-iect tanks
    12
    and
    13 to the
    5-90
    Included
    in
    1-2
    in~roved
    1-2
    ftjne
    System.
    Sy~ten~
    Re~ovation
    VI.
    Creosote
    Storage
    (1)
    Inspect
    exsting
    storage
    system.
    11-88
    90
    (2)
    Repair
    worn
    hatches
    and vents.
    12-88
    ~
    250
    (3)
    Renovate
    Topped
    Tar
    fl.sne
    Systems
    5-90
    ~36l~OO0
    1-2.
    VII.
    Creocote
    Blending
    and
    Evaluate
    need
    for
    fune
    system
    on
    9-90
    Loading
    creosote
    loading
    rind
    blend
    tanks
    T-SUI~jtJ?~iirxj
    305.
    TabLe 4-1
    (Cont~cJ.)
    item
    Emission
    Additional
    Additional
    Estimated
    No.
    Source
    Control
    Measures
    Date
    Cost
    X
    of
    Reduction
    VIII.
    Bitunen Storage
    (1) Inspect
    existing storage system.
    11-80
    ...
    (2)
    Repair
    worn
    hatches
    and
    vents.
    3-89
    $
    7,000
    (3) Extend inert gas
    purge
    to
    between
    3-89
    ~
    4~000
    transfer
    lines.
    IX.
    Coat
    Tar
    Pitch
    Storage
    (I)
    Vent
    tank
    emissions
    through
    pencil
    OnCning
    80
    pitch
    tune
    recovery
    system.
    (2)
    Check
    inert
    gas purging
    line.
    10-88
    (3)
    Inspect
    existing
    storage system.
    12-88
    (4)
    Repair
    worn
    hatches
    and
    vents.
    389
    S
    2,500
    X.
    Bitumen
    Drijnning
    (1)
    RepaIr
    bitumen
    cooler.
    3-89
    5
    10~000
    80
    (1)
    Extend
    inert
    gas
    purge
    to
    bitumen
    889
    t
    4~OUO
    drt.snnt ng.
    Xi.
    Coal
    Tar
    Pitch
    (1)
    Vent
    emissions
    through
    pencil
    pitch
    On-Going
    90
    fume
    system 1-5.
    (2)
    Modify loading
    spouts
    to
    reduce
    3 89
    5
    4,000
    emissions.
    XII.
    Nopbthatene
    Unloading
    Continue
    Present
    Operation
    On-Going
    TOTAL
    tóo8,7SO
    tfltz2**:XfltZ
    *
    Over
    arid
    above
    emission
    control
    measures
    taken
    prior
    to
    8-15-88.

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