ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
April 20,
1995
RIVERSIDE LABORATORIES,
INC.,
)
Petitioner,
v.
)
PCB 90—164
PCB 91—161
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
)
(Consolidated)
PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
(Variance-Air)
)
Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by J.
Yi):
Riverside Laboratories Inc.
(Riverside)
and the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency
(IEPA),
on October 28,
1994,
filed a joint status report pursuant to the Board’s order of
November
3,
1994,
a motion for continuance of stay, and a waiver
of decision deadline until October
6,
1995.
In the status report, Riverside states that a related permit
appeal
is pending before this Board in PCB 90-165.
This
consolidated variance arising out of IEPA’s denial of Riverside’s
permit on grounds that the Part 218 papercoating regulations of
the State Implementation Plan
(the
“SIP’t)
were applicable to
Riverside’s operation.
Riverside filed a Petition for Review
challenging the papercoating limitations as they applied to
Riverside.
Further, Riverside states that currently pending
before the United States Environmental Protection Agency
(tJ.S.EPA)
is its request for review of the Federal Implementation
Plan
(FIP)
for ozone which specifically challenges the
papercoating limitations as applied to Riverside, and that
TJ.S.EPA has granted Riverside a stay of enforcement of the
papercoating limitations pending final review.’
On December
16,
1993 a Notice of the Proposed Rulemaking was
published in the Federal Register and that the relevant public
comment period ended January 18,
1994.
(58 Fed. Reg.
65688
(December 16,
1993).)
A public hearing was held by U.S.EPA on
April
6,
1994 and it reopened the public comment period until Nay
16,
1994 at the request of Riverside.
As of April
14, 1995,
U.S.
EPA has not issued a final rulemaking in this matter but
anticipates that the final rule will be sent to the Administrator
‘The Board’s regulations at 35
Ill. Mm.
Code 218.103 (a) (2)
stay the effectiveness of Part 218 as applied to each FIP
appellant to the extent that each appellant receives a stay of
the FIP from the U.S.EPA.
2
to be signed within the next few weeks.
Riverside filed
a Waiver of Decision Deadline and requested
a stay until October
6,
1995.
The Board grants a stay in this
matter until June 15,
1995, which allows the Board sufficient
time,
if necessary,
to process this case prior to the new
decision deadline.2
Riverside and the Agency shall file another
status report, or any other appropriate motion, on or before June
8,
1995.
That filing and any future requests for continuation of
stay and status reports should be directed to the assigned
hearing officer, with a copy being filed with the Board.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board,
hereby certi~ythat the above order was adopted on the
~
day of __________________________,
1995,
by a vote of
7’
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Dorothy M.
G~mnn, Clerk
Illinois Po’l/lution Control Board
2Due to the regulatory notice requirements, the time
required to conduct the hearing and deliberate the matter, the
Board requires a 120 day period of time between the stay and the
decision due date
in the matter.