ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    December 16,
    1993
    GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
    ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIVISION,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    PCB 91—160
    (Variance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER
    OF THE BOARD
    (by C.A. Manning):
    On
    September
    5,
    1991,
    General Motors
    Corporation Electro-
    Motive Division
    (GM) filed
    a petition for an air variance for its
    facility
    located
    in
    LaGrange,
    Illinois. The
    last status report
    (March
    29,
    1993),
    filed
    in response to a hearing officer order,
    indicates
    that the United States Environmental Protection Agency
    (USEPA)
    is
    promulgating
    a
    rule
    applicable
    to GM’s
    locomotive
    coating
    operations,
    and
    that
    at that
    time,
    USEPA had
    not yet
    responded to GM’S comments on the proposed rule.
    The status report
    further states that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency)
    had
    not
    taken
    any
    final
    action
    on
    GM’s
    request
    to
    reconsider
    rules applicable to GM’S silicone rubber priming and
    electrical insulating varnish operations.
    As of March
    29th, GM did not believe that a hearing would be
    necessary due to the USEPA’s reconsideration of the federal rules
    and the Agency’s position that it would not mandate compliance with
    35 Ill.
    Adin. Code Part 218 until that process is complete. GM also
    indicated USEPA was expected to take final action in April of 1993.
    The parties are hereby directed to file a status report with
    the Clerk of the Board on or before January 14,
    1994.
    The parties
    should indicate the status of the USEPA action on the locomotive
    coating operations rule,
    GM’S request to the Agency to reconsider
    the rules applicable to the silicone rubber priming and electrical
    insulating varnish operation, whether a hearing will be necessary
    and any projected tiineline for completion of these matters.
    A copy
    of the status report should also be served on the assigned hearing
    officer in this case.
    Finally, the March 29th status report further indicated that
    the parties were
    inclined to continue with their obligation
    of
    filing a statement of disputed issues up to the date of next status
    report.
    If this obligation remains appropriate, the parties may
    file such a
    statement
    in conjunction with the January
    14,
    1994
    status report with the Clerk of the Board and the assigned hearing
    officer.
    2
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    hereby
    certify that the above order
    was
    adopted on the
    ~
    day of
    ~
    ,
    1993,
    by a vote of
    7—
    ion Control Board

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