ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

February

3,

1977

IN

THE

MATTER

OF

TEMPORARY

EMERGENCY

AMENDMENT

OF

RULES

205,

203(e)

and

204(c)

OF

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THE AIR POLLUTION REGULATIONS

INTERIM ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr.

Goodman):

The State of Illinois

is currently faced with

a severe health

emergency due

to the abnormal harshness of this year’s winter.

The

high demand for fuel due

to the season’s severe temperatures has

created

a fuel shortage.

Pursuant

to

a request

from the Governor

and pursuant to the emergency power granted the Board by Section

27(b)

of the Environmental Protection Act,

the Board hereby adopts

the following temporary amendments

to Rules

205,

203(e)

and 204(c)

of the Air Regulations.

These amendments shall be effective immedi-

ately and are hereby authorized

for hearing:

AMENDMENT TO RULE 205 OF CHAPTER

2:

(k)

The substantive limitations on organic material

emissions

of this Rule 205 shall not apply from

February

3,

1977 until March

7,

1977 to any exist-

ing source

which

has received a

valid

op~ating

permit for a natural gas fired afterburner to

control

emissions.

This

regulation

is a~plicable

only

in Cook,

DuPage,

Lake and Will

Counties.

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(e)

Particulate Emission Standards and Limitations

for

Incinerator

(6)

Exception:

Subparagraphs

(1),

(2) and

(3)

of this

Rule 203(e)

shall not apply from February

3,

1977,

until March

7,

1977,

to incinerators controlled by

afterburners

fired by natural

gas,

if the followinq

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conditions are met:

(A)

This exception shall apply only

to existing

incinerators

in Cook, DuPage, Will and Lake

Counties.

(B)

This exception shall not apply

to the incinera-

tion of pathological or highly toxic waste

materials.

(C)

This ~

shall apply only to incinerators

possessing valid operating permits.

AMENDMENT TO RULE 204(c) (2)

OF CHAPTER

2:

(2)

Liquid Fuel Burned Exclusively.

No person shall cause

or allow the emission of sulfur dioxide into the atmos-

phere in any one hour period from any existing fuel

combustion emission source, burning liquid fuel exclu-

sively:

(A)

to exceed 1.0 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million

btu of actual heat input when residual fuel oil is

burned:

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as further provided below in Rule

204 (c) (2) (C)

(B)

to exceed 0.3 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million

btu of actual heat input when distillate

fuel oil

is burned.

(C)

to exceed 2.5 pounds of

~

per million btu of

actual heat input when residual fuel oil is burned

and further provided that this Rule 204(c) (2) (C)

shall only apply to sources other than electrical

utility generating facilities,

as follows:

(i)

Only during the period February

3,

1977

through March

7,

1977

and,

further

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that

thereafter Rule 204(c) (2) (A) shall apply

to all

existing sources when residual fuel oil is burned

and

(ii)

Only in the counties of Cook,

DuPage, Lake,

and Will

and

(iii)

Onl~yafter the ~

receives notice of

intent in accordance with procedures which shall be

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adopted by the Agency pertaining to the requirements

for the contents and addressee of such notice and filed

with the

Index

Division of the Office of the Secretary

of State as required by “An Act concerning administra-

tive rules,” ~p~d

June 14,

1951,

as amended.

For purposes of rule 103 of Part

I of this Chapter,

no facility or

j~p~

which changes

its operations

within the provision of this Rule 204(c) (2) (C)

shall be

deemed to be modified as otherwise provided in Rule 101

Definitions,

Modification and ~

existing valid permit

issued pursuant to Rule 103 shall continue

in full force

and effect so long as the facility or equipment remains

otherwise

in compliance wiEh the terms and conditions

of

said permit.

I, Christan L.

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Contro’

Board, hereby certify the above Interim Order was adopted on the

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1977 by a vote oft-p

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Illinois Pollution C n rol

Board

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