ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March 2,
    1995
    ILLINOIS PETROLEUM
    )
    MARKETERS ASSOCIATION,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 95—67
    (Provisional Variance-Air)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE
    BOARD
    (by R.C. Flemal):
    Pursuant to Section 35(b)
    of the Environmental Protection
    Act
    (Act)
    (415 ILCS 5/35(b)), Illinois Petroleum Marketers
    Association
    (IPMA)
    has requested that the Illinois Environmental
    Protection Agency
    (Agency) recommend that the Board grant a
    provisional variance to allow several of IPMA’s member gasoline
    dispensing operations
    (service stations)
    to continue operating
    even though they did not install operational vapor recovery
    equipment by November 1,
    1994.
    Such request for a provisional
    variance and the Notification of Recommendation was filed with
    the Board by the Agency on Tuesday, February 28,
    1995.
    Pursuant
    to Section 35(b)
    of the Act, the Board must issue the variance
    within two
    (2) days of this filing.
    Specifically, the Agency recommends that we grant IPMA’s
    members a forty—five (45)—day provisional variance for sixty—two
    (62)
    of its member facilities located
    in six
    (6)
    counties in the
    Chicago metropolitan statistical area from the Stage II vapor
    recovery requirements,
    as set forth
    in 35
    Iii. Adm.
    Code 218.586,
    for the period beginning February 2,
    1995 and continuing for
    forty-five (45)-days or until the required vapor recovery
    equipment is installed, whichever comes first.’
    The Agency’s provisional variance recommendation states that
    IPHA has requested a provisional variance on behalf of sixty—two
    (62)
    of its members facilities
    (service stations)
    in the Chicago
    1
    The Board previously granted
    a provisional variance to
    the IPMA that expired December 15,
    1994.
    The docket number of the
    previous provisional variance was PCB 94—366, granted on December
    1,
    1994.
    Two individuals, Elmhurst Shell and Gas Stop were granted
    individual provisional variances on January 11,
    1995.
    The docket
    numbers of the previous provisional variances were PCB 95—21 and
    PCB 95-23.
    2
    area,
    located as follows:2
    County
    Number of Stations
    Cook
    40
    DuPage
    8
    Kane
    7
    Lake
    2
    McHenery
    3
    Will
    2
    The addresses of those stations are listed as follows:
    County
    Facility
    Street Address
    City
    Cook
    AFS Summit
    7665 Lawndale
    Summit,
    IL
    60501
    Cook
    AFS Northlake
    2
    E. Lake St.
    Northiake,
    IL
    60164
    Cook
    AFS Halsted-The
    222 N. Halsted
    Chicago,
    IL
    Spot
    60606
    Cook
    Alsip Gas
    12249
    S. Cicero
    Alsip,
    IL
    60658
    Cook
    Angelo’s Service
    242 Waukegan Rd.
    Glenview,
    IL
    Station
    60025
    Cook
    Arlington Kwik
    301 W. Central Rd
    Arlington
    Stop
    Heights,
    IL
    Cook
    Ashland Bryn Mawr
    5550 N. Ashland
    Chicago,
    IL
    76
    Ave.
    60640
    2Section 36(c)
    of the Act imposes limitations on the Board’s
    ability to extend a provisional variance:
    Any provisional variance granted by the Board pursuant to
    subsection
    (b)
    of Section
    35 shall
    be for
    a period of
    time
    not
    to
    exceed
    45
    days.
    Upon
    receipt
    of
    a
    recommendation
    from
    the
    Agency
    to
    extend
    this
    time
    period,
    the Board
    shall
    grant
    up
    to an additional
    45
    days.
    The
    provisional
    variances granted
    to
    any
    one
    person shall not exceed
    a total
    of
    90 days during any
    calendar year.
    Since the variances granted on January
    11,
    1995 in PCB 95-21 and
    PCB 95-23 both expired on January 29,
    1995,
    and fewer than ninety
    (90)
    days
    elapsed
    in
    this
    calendar
    year,
    the
    Board
    interprets
    Section 36(c)
    as allowing Elmhurst Shell and
    Gas Stop the Agency
    recommended forty—five
    (45)-day extensions.
    3
    Cook
    Austin Service
    6005 W. 35th St.
    Cicero, IL
    60650
    Cook
    Bam’s Inc. Citgo
    2816 W.
    Irving
    Chicago, IL
    Park
    60618
    Cook
    Belmont-Kostner 76
    4357 W. Belmont
    Chicago,
    IL
    Ave.
    60641
    Cook
    Bridgeview
    8849 S. Harlem
    Bridgeview,
    Phillips
    IL 60455
    Cook
    C+X Enterprises
    14941 Dixie Hwy.
    Harvey,
    IL
    Cook
    Carreon Phillips
    2346 N. Western
    Chicago,
    IL
    66
    Ave.
    60647
    Cook
    Diversey-Central
    3559 W.Diversey
    Chicago,
    IL
    Park 76
    Ave.
    60647
    Cook
    Dolton Gas
    14209
    S.
    Lincoln
    Dolton, IL
    Cook
    F
    & 0 Service
    3001 W. Belmont
    Chicago, IL
    Ave.
    60618
    Cook
    Flossmoor Service
    2733 Flossmoor Rd.
    Flossmoor,
    IL
    Station
    60422
    Cook
    Gas Stop
    901 N. Pulaski
    Chicago, IL
    60630
    Cook
    Grand
    & Wolf
    2900 N. Wolf Rd
    North Lake,
    IL 60014
    Cook
    Harders Gas
    &
    1546 S. Lombard
    Berwyn, IL
    Pantry
    60402
    Cook
    Indian Head Citgo
    6600 S. Willow
    LaGrange, IL
    Springs Rd.
    60525
    Cook
    Jim’s Phillips 66
    7400 W. Roosevelt
    Forest Park,
    IL 60130
    Cook
    LaGrange
    & Ogden
    40 N. LaGrange Rd.
    LaGrange, IL
    Service
    60525
    Cook
    Marquette Gas
    4300 W.
    67th St.
    Chicago,
    IL
    60629
    Cook
    Midway Phillips
    4710 W. 63rd St.
    Chicago,
    IL
    Cook
    Oak Park 76
    333 Lake St.
    Oak Park,
    IL
    Service
    60302
    Cook
    Ogden
    & Carrol
    335 N. Ogden Ave.
    Chicago, IL
    Service Stations
    Cook
    Palos Petroleum
    12301
    S.
    80th Ave.
    Palos Park,
    IL
    Cook
    Pete’s Phillips
    6717 W. 79th St.
    Burbank, IL
    Cook
    Petro Service
    7100 S. Martin
    Chicago,
    IL
    Station
    Luther King Dr.
    60619
    Cook
    R
    & A Citgo
    3037 W. 63rd St.
    Chicago,
    IL
    60629
    Cook
    Raffco II Unocal
    3700 W. 111th St.
    Chicago,
    IL
    60655
    Cook
    Raj Citgo
    11200
    W.
    31st St
    Westchester,
    IL 60154
    Cook
    Ruben’s Mobil
    5726 N. Nagle
    Chicago,
    IL
    60646
    4
    Cook
    Sheppard’s Gas for
    874
    E. Higgins
    Elk Grove
    Less
    Village, IL
    60007
    Cook
    Twist Service,
    5200 W. Addison
    Chicago,
    IL
    Inc.
    St.
    60641
    Cook
    Tuxedo Junction
    4701
    S. Western
    Chicago, IL
    Blvd.
    60609
    Cook
    Uptown Service
    4900 N.
    Broadway
    Chicago,
    IL
    Station
    60640
    Cook
    Village Tire
    1530 S. Hermen
    Northbrook,
    IL 60062
    Cook
    Western Citgo
    8258 S. Western
    Chicago, IL
    60620
    DuPage
    Bensenville Citgo
    1156
    S. York Rd.
    Bensenville,
    IL 60106
    DuPage
    Elmhurst Shell
    152
    N. Addison
    Elmhurst, IL
    Ave.
    60126
    DuPage
    Naperville Union
    2300 N. Rt.
    59
    Naperville,
    76
    IL 60540
    DuPage
    Petro Oil Co.
    154
    S. York
    Bensenville,
    IL 60106
    DuPage
    Ronlin Auto Center
    47
    E. 55th St.
    Westmont, IL
    Inc.
    60559
    DuPage
    Roselle’s Service
    445 E. Irving Park
    Roselle, IL
    Center
    60172
    DuPage
    Shannon’s
    610 S. Main
    Lombard, IL
    Specialty
    60148
    DuPage
    Willowbrook Citgo
    6900 S.
    Rt.
    83
    Willowbrook,
    IL 60514
    Kane
    Elgin Car Wash
    313 Dundee Ave
    Elgin,
    IL
    60120
    Kane
    Geneva Carwash
    618 S.
    First
    Geneva,
    IL
    60134
    Kane
    Goding’s Union 76
    1150 Prairie St
    Aurora,
    IL
    60506
    Kane
    Harper Oil Co. #26
    1116
    E. New York
    Aurora, IL
    60505
    Kane
    Kimball “66”
    50 Kimball
    Elgin, IL
    60120
    Kane
    Petro Pantry
    601 Villa
    Elgin, IL
    60120
    Kane
    W-D Oil Co.
    1775 5. LaFox
    S. Elgin,
    IL
    60177
    Lake
    Seitz Corp
    530 N. Western Ave
    Lake Forest,
    IL 60045
    Lake
    Waukegan Public
    1700 NcAree Rd.
    Waukegan, IL
    Works
    60085
    McHenry
    Harvard Amoco
    360 S. Division
    Harvard, IL
    60033
    McHenry
    Boncosky Oil
    4019 Main St.
    McHenry,
    IL
    60050
    5
    McHenry
    Boncosky Food
    &
    400 Northwest
    Fox River
    Fuel
    Highway
    Grove,
    IL
    60021
    Will
    Scotts U Save
    3400 S. Union St.
    Steger, IL
    60475
    Will
    Wilmington Citgo
    809 E. Baltimore
    Wilmington,
    IL 60481
    Upon receipt of the request, the Agency issued its
    recommendation, notifying the Board that the failure to grant the
    requested forty—five
    (45)—day provisional variance would impose
    an arbitrary or unreasonable hardship on the petitioner.
    The
    Agency recommendation states that installation of Stage II vapor
    recovery equipment at the IPMA member facilities was not possible
    by the November
    1,
    1994 deadline for compliance because the
    IPMA’s member facilities had contracted for the purchase and
    installation of vacuum assist vapor recovery equipment, but that
    the equipment and the crews necessary to install it were not
    available before the compliance deadline.
    Provisional variances are by their very nature temporary.
    The responsibilities of the Agency and the Board in these short-
    term provisional variances are different from the
    responsibilities in standard variances.
    (See 415 ILCS 5/35(b)
    &
    36(c)).
    In provisional variances it is the responsibility of the
    Agency to make the technical determinations and finding of
    arbitrary or unreasonable hardship.
    The Board’s responsibility
    is to adopt a formal order,
    to assure the formal maintenance of
    the record,
    to assure the enforceability of the variance, and to
    provide notification of the action by a press release.
    Having received the Agency recommendation notifying the
    Board that a denial of the requested relief would impose an
    arbitrary or unreasonable hardship, the Board hereby grants each
    of IPMA’s member service stations listed on pages
    1 thru 4 above
    a provisional variance from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 218.586, subject to
    the following conditions:
    1.
    The term of this provisional variance shall commence on
    February 2,
    1995 and it shall expire on the date each of
    IPMA’s member service stations complete the required
    installation of vacuum assist Stage
    II vapor recovery
    equipment,
    or after forty—five
    (45)-days have elapsed,
    whichever comes first;
    2.
    Each of IPMA’s member service stations shall notify the
    Agency of the installation of the vapor recovery equipment,
    by sending notification addressed as follows:
    Mr. Terry Sweitzer, P.E.
    Manager, Air Monitoring Section
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    6
    Division of Air Pollution Control
    P.O. Box 19276
    Springfield, Illinois
    62794—9276
    Each of IPMA’s member service stations shall execute a copy of a
    Certificate of Acceptance of this provisional variance and
    forward that copy addressed as follows:
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Division of Legal Counsel
    2200 Churchill Road
    P.O. Box 19276
    Springfield, Illinois
    62794—9276
    Attention:
    Brooke Peterson
    Each of IPMA’s member service stations shall forward that copy
    within forty-five
    (45) days of the date of this order of the
    Board,
    and The Certificate of Acceptance shall take the following
    form:
    CERTIFICATION
    I
    (We),
    ,
    hereby accept
    and agree to be bound by all terms and conditions
    of the order of the Pollution Control Board in PCB
    95—67, March
    2,
    1995.
    Petitioner
    Authorized Agent
    Title
    Facility
    Facility Address
    Date
    7
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    do hereby certify that the above order was adopted on the
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    ,
    1995,
    by a vote of
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