ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

August 21,

1980

ALLIS—CHALMERS,

Petitioner,

v.

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PCB 80—85

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

)

AGENCY,

Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by

I.

Goodman):

This petition was filed before the Board on April

21,

1980

by Allis—Chalmers,

Incorporated (Allis—Chalmers) and requested

variance from Rule 205(k) of Chapter

2 of the Board’s Air Pollution

Control Rules and Regulations.

No hearing was held in this matter

and the Board has received no public comment.

Allis—Chalmers requests variance from Rule 205(k)’s compliance

date of July

1,

1980 for a vapor degreaser

located at its Engine

Division facility

in Harvey,

Illinois.

Variance is requested from

July

1,

1980 up to and including December 31,

1980.

The degreaser

is used for cleaning diesel nozzle parts and it currently emits

21.4 pounds per hour of trichloroethane.

In its Recommendation

the Agency points out that Allis—Chalmers has been unable to meet

the compliance date due to a backlog

in production of the degreasing

control equipment caused by current demand for the device.

In

addition, the degreaser,

a custom designed unit, requires time for

fabrication at the time of installation.

The Agency states that

granting this variance will not result in any significant harm to

the environment.

The Board finds that denial

of the proposed variance would

create an arbitrary and unreasonable hardship upon Allis—Chalmers,

especially considering the good faith efforts put forth by the

company to comply with the regulation and the lack of any sig-

nificant harm to the environment.

The Board shall,

therefore,

grant variance from Rule 205(k) from July

1,

1980 up to and

including December 31,

1980 for the facility.

The Order of

the

Board of July 24,

1980 is hereby rescinded.

This opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions

of

law of the Board in this matter.

ORDER

It is the Order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board that

Allis—Chalmers,

Incorporated be granted variance from Rule 205(k)

of Chapter

2 of the Board’s Air Pollution Control Rules and

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Regulations

for

a

vapor

degreaser

located

in

its

Engine

Division

facility at Harvey, Illinois from July

1,

1980

up to and

including December 31,

1980,

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify that the above Opinion and Order

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of

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1980 by a vote

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