ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June
    2,
    1994
    IN THE
    MATTER
    OF:
    PETITION OF ABBOTT LABORATORIES
    )
    AS 94-5
    FOR AN ADJUSTED STANDARD FROM
    )
    (Adjusted Standard)
    35
    ILL. ADN.
    CODE 218 SUBPART RR
    )
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by
    J. Theodore Meyer):
    This matter is before the Board on a joint motion for
    stay,
    filed on
    May
    27,
    1994 by Abbott Laboratories and the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency (Agency).
    The parties state that
    as
    a result of the Board’s adoption of new reasonably available
    control technology
    (RACT) regulations’, some of Abbott’s
    equipment, used to produce chemicals such as Gibberellin,
    is now
    subject to two sets of RACT requirements.
    The Agency has agreed
    that the RACT requirements set forth at 35
    Ill. Adm. Code
    218.Subpart T are the appropriate requirements, and not the
    requirements in
    35 Ill.
    Adm.
    Code 218.Subpart RR.
    The parties
    maintain that the Agency intends to submit to the Board, this
    summer,
    a proposed rule amending Subpart T.
    The parties state
    that such amendment would provide the relief requested by Abbott
    in its petition for adjusted standard.
    Thus,
    the parties request
    that the Board stay this proceeding until adoption of that
    amended rule.
    The motion for stay is granted.
    However, we will not stay
    this matter indefinitely, pending the outcome of a rulemaking
    that has not yet been filed with the Board.
    This matter is
    stayed until September 15,
    1994.
    The parties are directed to
    file status reports,
    either jointly or separately, no later than
    September 6,
    1994.
    The status reports shall include detailed
    information on the progress of the anticipated rulemaking.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I
    Reasonably Available Control Technology for Malor
    Sources Emitting Volatile Organic Materials in the Chicago Ozone
    i~pnattainmentArea:
    25 Tons
    (Amendments to 35 I11.Adm. Code
    Parts 211 and 218
    (January
    6,
    1994), R93—14.
    Those amendments
    were adopted by the Board on January
    6,
    1994,
    and became
    effective
    on
    January
    24,
    1994.
    2
    I, Dorothy M.
    Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    hereby certify that the above order was adopted on the
    ,L~A
    day of
    ______________,
    1994,
    by a vote of
    ~
    Control Board

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