ILLINOIS POLLUTION

 CONTROL

 BOARD

September

9,

1993

IN THE MATTER OF:

PETITION OF AXZO CHEMICALS INC.

)

 AS 93-8

FOR ADJUSTED STANDARD FROM

)

 (Adjusted Standard)

35 ILL.

 ADM. CODE 304.105

)

AND

302.208

)

ORDER OF THE

BOARD

 (by B.

 Forcade):

On August 20,

 1993,

AKZO

Chemicals Inc.

 (AXZO)

 filed a

petition for an adjusted standard.

 AXZO is requesting an

adjusted standard for its Morris,

 Illinois facility.

The

petition seeks

 an adjusted standard from 35

 Ill. Adm.

 Code

304.105 as it applies to the water quality standards for

discharges of total dissolved solids,

 chloride, sulfate and

boron.

 AKZO

 is also seeking an adjusted standard from 35

 Ill.

Adm. Code 302.208 for the same constituents.

Section 28.1(c)

 of the Environmental Protection Act

(Act) (415 ILCS 5/28.1(c) (1992)) requires a petitioner for an

adjusted standard to prove that:

1.

 factors relating to that petitioner are substantially

and significantly different from the factors relied

upon by the Board in adopting the general regulation

applicable to that petitioner;

2.

 the existence of those factors justifies an adjusted

standard;

3.

 the requested standard will not result in environmental

or health effects substantially and significantly more

adverse than the effects considered by the Board

in

adopting the rule of general applicability; and

4.

 the adjusted standard is consistent with any applicable

federal

 law.

In addition,

35

 Ill. Adm.

 Code 106.705 requires the petitioner to

provide certain information in the petition to the Board.

While the petitioner has provided the information required

by 35 Ill.

 AdTn.

 Code

 106.705, the Board finds that the petition

does not contain sufficient information to comply with the

requirements of Section

 28.1(c)

 of the Act.

 Therefore,

 the Board

finds that the petition filed by AXZO

 is insufficient for Board

consideration and directs AXZO to file an amended petition in

accordance with the requirements of Section 28.1(c)

 of the Act.

The Board also notes that Attachment

 7 of the petition

is

incomplete

 in that pages are missing.

 Alternate pages are

2

missing from the study on “Acute Toxicity of Chlorides, Sulfates

and Total Dissolved Solids to Some Fishes

 in Illinois”.

Attachment

 7 also includes two copies of a report entitled

 “Ambient Aquatic Life Water Quality Criteria for Chloride” but

pages are missing from both copies.

 AEZO should review its

petition to assure that all necessary pages of reports and

studies have been provided in the attachments.

 AXZO should

include a complete copy of the attachments

 in its amended

petition.

If AKZO does not

file an amended petition, addressing the

above issues, on or before November 12,

 1993, this matter may be

subject to dismissal.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Dorothy M.

 Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

BoardA hereby certify

t~’at

 the above order was adopted on the

_________

 day of

_______________,

 1993, by a vote of

______

~borothy N. G~nn,Clerk

Illinois P97tLution

 Control Board