ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June 20, 1996
    MARATHON OIL COMPANY,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 96-254
    (Variance - Air)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
    On June 14, 1996 Marathon Oil Company (Marathon) filed a petition for variance
    through December 31, 1996 from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 212.123 and 212.381 concerning
    particulate emissions. The variance involves the Marathon petroleum refinery near the City of
    Robinson, Crawford County, Illinois.
    Marathon’s petition is deficient, as it fails to contain all of the information required by
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 104.121. The deficiencies in Marathon’s petition includes, but is not
    limited to, the following:
    Section 104.121 (e): Data describing in sufficient detail the nature and
    extent of present (or future) failure to meet the applicable standards.
    Section 104.121 (g): An assessment with factual information, of
    environmental impact that the variance will impose on human, plant, and
    animal life in the affected area, including, where applicable, data
    describing the existing air quality which the discharge may affect.
    Section 104.121 (k): A concise factual statement of the reasons the
    petitioner believes that compliance with the particular provisions of the
    regulations would impose as arbitrary or unreasonable hardship.
    If an amended petition curing all deficiencies is not filed within 45 days of the date of
    this order, this petition will be subject to dismissal. The filing of an amended petition will
    restart the Board’s timeclock pursuant to Section 38(a) of the Environmental Protection Act.
    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 ___________, 1996, by a vote of
    ______________.
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    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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