ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
December 1, 1994
ILLINOIS PETROLEUM
)
MARKETERS ASSOCIATION,
)
)
Petitioner,
v.
PCB 94—366
)
(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)), Illinois Petroleum Marketers
Association (IPHA) 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, 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 IPMA’s
members a forty—five (45)—day provisional variance for sixty—four
(64) 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 Ill. Adm. Code 218.586,
for the period beginning November 1, 1994, 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
IPMA has requested a provisional variance on behalf of sixty—four
(64) of its members facilities (service stations) in the Chicago
area, located as follows:
County
Number of Stations
Cook
42
DuPage
8
Kane
7
Lake
2
NcHenery
3
Will
2
2
Flossmoor Service
Station
Gas Stop
Grand & Wolf
Harders Gas &
Pantry
Indian Head Citgo
Jim’s Phillips 66
LaGrange & Ogden
Service
Marquette Gas
Midway Phillips
City
Summit, IL
60501
Northlake, IL
60164
Chicago, IL
60606
Alsip, IL
60658
Glenview, IL
60025
Arlington
Heights, IL
Chicago, IL
60640
Cicero, IL
60650
Chicago, IL
60618
Chicago, IL
60641
Bridgeview,
IL 60455
Harvey, IL
Chicago, IL
60647
Chicago, IL
60647
Dolton, IL
Chicago, IL
60618
Flossmoor, IL
60422
Chicago, IL
60630
North Lake,
IL 60014
Berwyn, IL
60402
LaGrange, IL
60525
Forest Park,
IL 60130
LaGrange, IL
60525
Chicago, IL
60629
Chicago, IL
The addresses of those stations
County
Facility
Cook
AFS Summit
Cook
AFS Northlake
Cook
AFS Halsted-The
Spot
Cook
Alsip Gas
Cook
Angelo’s Service
Station
Cook
Arlington Kwik
Stop
Cook
Ashland Bryn
Mawr
76
Cook
Austin Service
Cook
Barn’s Inc. Citgo
Cook
Belmont-Kostner 76
Cook
Bridgeview
Phillips
Cook
C+X Enterprises
Cook
Carreon Phillips
66
Cook
Diversey-Central
Park 76
Cook
Dolton Gas
Cook
F & 0 Service
Cook
Cook
Cook
Cook
Cook
Cook
Cook
Cook
Cook
are listed as follows:
Street Address
7665 Lawndale
2 E. Lake St.
222 N. Haisted
12249 S. Cicero
242 Waukegan Rd.
301 W. Central Rd
5550 N. Ashland
Ave.
6005 W. 35th St.
2816 W. Irving
Park
4357 W. Belmont
Ave.
8849 S. Harlem
14941 Dixie Hwy.
2346 N. Western
Ave.
3559 W.Diversey
Ave.
14209 S. Lincoln
3001 W. Belmont
Ave.
2733 Flossmoor Rd.
901 N. Pulaski
2900 N. Wolf Rd
1546 5. Lombard
6600 S. Willow
Springs Rd.
7400 W. Roosevelt
40 N. LaGrange Rd.
4300 W. 67th St.
4710 W. 63rd St.
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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
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 5. Hermen
Northbrook,
IL 60062
Cook
Western Citgo
8258 5. Western
Chicago, IL
60620
DuPage
Bensenville Citgo 1156 S. York Rd. Bensenville,
IL 60106
DuPage
Elnthurst Shell
152 N. Addison
Elinhurst, IL
Ave.
60126
DuPage
Naperville Union 2300 N. Rt. 59
Naperville,
76
IL 60540
DuPage
Petro Oil Co.
154 5. 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
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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 S. LaFox
S. Elgin, IL
60177
Lake
Seitz Corp
530 N. Western Ave Lake Forest,
IL 60045
Lake
Waukegan Public
1700 McAree Rd.
Waukegan, IL
Works
60085
McHenry
Harvard Amoco
360 S. Division
Harvard, IL
60033
McHenry
Boncosky Oil
4019 Main St.
McHenry, IL
60050
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 IPHA 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 IPHA’s member service stations listed on pages 1 thru 4 above
a provisional variance from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 218.586, subject to
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the following conditions:
1. The term of this provisional variance shall commence on
November 1, 1994 and it shall expire on the date each of
IPHA’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
Division of Air Pollution Control
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794—9276
Each of IPHA’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 IPHA’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
94—366, December 1, 1994.
Petitioner
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Authorized Agent
Title
Facility
Facility Address
Date
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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day of ___________________________, 1994, by a vote of
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Dorothy N. ~ünn, Cleri’c
Illinois PoZlution Control Board