ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    December
    1,
    1994
    ALAMO
    RENT-A-CAR,
    INC.,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 94—353
    )
    (Provisional Variance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by C.
    A. Manning):
    Pursuant to Section 35(b)
    of the Environmental Protection
    Act
    (Act)
    (415 ILCS 5/35(b)), Alamo Rent—A-Car,
    Inc.
    (Alamo) has
    requested that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency) recommend that the Board grant a provisional variance to
    allow Alamo’s gasoline dispensing operation (service station) to
    continue operating even though it did not install operational
    vapor recovery equipment by November 1,
    1994.
    This provisional
    variance is being requested because petitioner has contracted for
    the purchase and installation of vacuum assist vapor recovery
    equipment, but that the equipment was not available before the
    compliance deadline.
    This request for a provisional variance and
    the Notification of Recommendation was filed with the Board by
    the Agency on Tuesday, November 29,
    1994.
    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 Alamo a
    forty-five (45)—day provisional variance for its facility located
    at 6525 South Cicero Avenue,
    Chicago, Cook County,
    Illinois in
    the Chicago metropolitan statistical area from the Stage II vapor
    recovery requirements, as set forth in 35
    Ill.
    Adm. Code 218.586,
    for the period beginning November 7,
    1994,
    and continuing for
    forty-five (45)-days or until the required vapor recovery
    equipment is installed, whichever comes first.
    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.
    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.
    (~
    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
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    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 the
    petitioner 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
    November 7,
    1994, and continue for forty-five
    (45)—days or
    until the required vapor recovery equipment is installed,
    whichever comes first.
    2.
    The petitioner shall notify the Agency upon
    installation of the Stage II gasoline vapor recovery
    equipment, by sending notification addressed as follows:
    Mr. Terry Sweitzer, P.E.
    Manager, Air Monitoring Section
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Division of Air Pollution Control
    P.O. Box 19276
    Springfield, Illinois
    62794—9276
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy H. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board~ do hereby certify that the ,above order was adopted on the
    ______
    day of
    ~
    ,
    1994,
    by a vote of
    ____________
    .
    ///~~~
    Dorothy M. ~$nn, Clerk
    Illinois P~tlutionControl Board

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