ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January
    6,
    1994
    SHELL OIL COMPANY,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 94—li
    )
    (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)), Shell Oil Company has requested
    that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency)
    recommend that the Board grant a provisional variance to allow
    several of Shell Oil Company’s gasoline dispensing operations
    (service stations) to continue operating even though they did not
    install operational vapor recovery equipment by November 1,
    1993.
    Such request for a provisional variance and the Notification of
    Recommendation was filed with the Board by the Agency by fax on
    Tuesday, January 4,
    1994,
    followed by a hard copy on Wednesday,
    January
    5,
    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 Shell Oil
    Company a forty-five (45)-day provisional variance for ninety-
    four
    (94)
    of its 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.
    Adin. Code 218.586,
    for the period beginning December 16, 1993,
    and continuing for
    forty-five
    (45) days or until the required vapor recovery
    equipment is installed, whichever comes first.
    This recommendation is essentially that the Board extend
    a
    previously-granted provisional variance that expired December 15,
    1993.
    The docket number of the previous provisional variance was
    PCB 93—208, granted on November 4,
    1993.
    The Agency’s provisional variance recommendation states that
    Shell Oil Company has requested a provisional variance on behalf
    of numerous of its service stations in the Chicago area,
    located
    as follows:
    County
    Number of Stations
    Cook
    52
    DuPage
    21
    Will
    8
    Lake
    5
    2
    McHenry
    5
    Kane
    3
    The addresses of those stations are listed in an attachment to
    the Agency’s recommendation as follows:
    County
    City or Village
    Street Address
    Cook
    BERWYN
    7143 W ROOSEVELT ROAD
    Cook
    BLUE ISLAND
    11901 S WESTERN(GC)
    Cook
    BRIDGEVIEW
    7901 S ROBERTS RD/79TH
    Cook
    BROADVIEW
    2425 W ROOSEVELT RD
    Cook
    BURBANK
    7900 S CICERO AVE
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    1160 W. DIVERSEY/RACIN
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    11100 S CORLISS/I—94
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    3181 N. MILWAUKEE/BELM
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    4401 N.
    CICERO/MONTROS
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    2941 E 83RD/COMMERICAL
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    5701 N BROADWAY/HOLLYW
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    2401
    W. ROOSEVELT/WEST
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    4002 W.
    CHGO/PULASKI
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    30 W. ONTARIO/DEARBORN
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    505 N. ASHLAND/GRAND
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    130 W. NORTH/LASALLE
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    801 W GARFIELD/HALSTED
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    215-25 W 31ST ST/WELLS
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    1400 W FULLERTON/SOUTH
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    801 W. ADDISON
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    3201 W 26TH ST/KEDZIE
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    5201 N. WESTERN/FOSTER
    Cook
    CHICAGO
    6401 N. RIDGE/DEVON
    Cook
    COUNTRYSIDE
    6101 S LA GRANGE RD
    Cook
    DOLTON
    1445 E SIBLEY/MICHIGAN
    Cook
    EVERGREEN
    PARK
    2635 W.
    87TH
    @
    TALMAN
    Cook
    FOREST PARK
    7201 W. MADISON
    Cook
    HANOVER PARK
    1507 W IRVING
    P1
    Cook
    HOFFMAN ESTATES
    2
    E. HIGGINS
    Cook
    LA GRANGE
    6701 JOLIET RD
    Cook
    LINCOLNWOOD
    6400 LINCOLN/DEVON
    Cook
    LINCOLNWOOD
    7201 N.
    CICERO/TOUHY
    Cook
    MATTESON
    4755 VOLMER/CICERO
    Cook
    MORTON GROVE
    6941 W. DEMPSTER/WAUKE
    Cook
    MORTON GROVE
    5600 DEMPSTER
    Cook
    MOUNT PROSPECT
    820 N.
    RIVER/EUCLID
    Cook
    MOUNT PROSPECT
    927
    S. BUSSE/GOLF
    Cook
    MOUNT PROSPECT
    1798 S ELMHURST/ALGONQ
    Cook
    NILES
    5900 TOUHY/LEHIGH
    Cook
    OAK FOREST
    16702
    S CICERO AVE
    Cook
    OAK LAWN
    10601 5 CICERO AVE. (GC
    Cook
    OAK PARK
    1 W. HARRISON
    Cook
    PALATINE
    1393
    E. DUNDEE ROAD
    Cook
    PALOS HEIGHTS
    12121 S RIDGELAND
    3
    Cook
    PALOS PARK
    13056 S LA GRANGE RD
    Cook
    PROSPECT HTS
    2
    N. ELMHURST/CP MCDON
    Cook
    RIVER FOREST
    7201 W. NORTH/HARLEM
    Cook
    SCHAUMBURG
    575 S. ROSELLE ROAD
    Cook
    SCHAUMBURG
    517 MALL/HIGGINS
    Cook
    SKOKIE
    5025 OLD ORCHARD ROAD
    Cook
    WESTCHESTER
    10200 W ROOSEVELT RD
    Cook
    WILNETTE
    399 RIDGE/WILMETTE
    DuPage
    ADDISON
    500 E.
    LAKE
    DuPage
    BENSENVILLE
    4 W.
    IRVING PARK/YORK
    DuPage
    BLOOMINGDALE
    201 E. LAKE
    DuPage
    CAROL STREAM
    106 W NORTH/GARY
    DuPage
    DARIEN
    8226 S CASS
    /
    1—55
    DuPage
    DOWNERS GROVE
    2212-50 OGDEN/BELMONT
    DuPage
    DOWNERS GROVE
    10 S 281 LENONT RD/ I-
    DuPage
    ELMHURST
    301 W. BUTTERFIELD/SPR
    DuPage
    ELMHURST
    103 W.
    3RD/YORK
    DuPage
    HINSDALE
    210 E OGDEN/YORK
    DuPage
    LISLE
    4300 LINCOLN/WARRENVIL
    DuPage
    LOMBARD
    18 W 622 ROOSEVELT/MEYE
    DuPage
    NAPERVILLE
    1295 S RICKERT/75TH
    DuPage
    OAK BROOK
    2210 W 22ND ST
    DuPage
    ROSELLE
    4 IRVING PARK/ROSELLE
    DuPage
    VILLA PARK
    401 E.
    ST CHARLES RD
    DuPage
    VILLA PARK
    17 W 621 ROOSEVELT/MIDW
    DuPage
    WHEATON
    100 W. GENEVA/MAIN
    DuPage
    WHEATON
    NEC NAPERVILLE/EAST LO
    DuPage
    WOOD DALE
    110 E IRVING P1/WOOD
    D
    DuPage
    WOODRIDGE
    7500 LENONT RD/75TH ST
    Kane
    CARPENTERSVILLE
    25TH/HAZARD
    Kane
    GENEVA
    1491 E STATE ST
    @
    KIRK
    Kane
    WEST DUNDEE
    RT 31(8TH ST)/RT 72(MA
    Lake
    BARRINGTON
    100 NW HWY/MAIN
    Lake
    DEERFIELD
    2 WAUXEGAN/COUNTYLINE
    Lake
    HIGHLAND PARK
    1411 PARK AVE
    Lake
    HIGHLAND PARK
    10 SKOKIE HWY/CNTY LIN
    Lake
    MUNDELEIN
    25809 N.
    MIDLOTHIAN
    McHenry
    ALGONQUIN
    2 N. MAIN(RT 31)/RT 62
    NcHenry
    CRYSTAL LAKE
    681 TERRA COTTA
    (RTS.
    McHenry
    CRYSTAL LAKE
    220 E. VIRGINIA/KEITH
    Mcflenry
    FOX RIVER GROVE
    848 NORTHWEST HWY
    McHenry
    MCHENRY
    2022 W.
    ROUTE 120
    Will
    BOLINGBROOK
    255 N NAPERVILLE/BOUGH
    Will
    CRETE
    1400 E STEGER RD./I-39
    Will
    FRANKFORT
    7600 W RTE 30(GC)
    Will
    JOLIET
    4230 W JEFFERSON(US
    52)
    Will
    JOLIET
    3021 PLAINFIELD RD
    Will
    LOCKPORT
    15861 BELL RD. (CC)
    Will
    LOCKPORT
    12810 143RD
    @
    BELL
    Will
    STEGER
    500 W 234TH ST/KING
    4
    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 Petitioner.
    The Agency
    recommendation states that installation of Stage II vapor
    recovery equipment at the Shell Oil Company facilities
    is not
    possible by the November
    1,
    1993 deadline for compliance because
    vapor recovery equipment for its gasoline dispensers was 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.
    (~ç~415 ILCS 5/35(b)
    &
    (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
    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
    December
    16,
    1993,
    and it shall expire on the date the
    Petitioner completes the required installation of vacuum
    assist Stage II vapor recovery equipment,
    or after forty—
    five
    (45) days have elapsed, whichever comes first;
    2.
    The Petitioner 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
    5
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, do hereby certi
    above order was adopted on the
    ~
    day of
    1994, by a vote of
    /
    Control Board

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