ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January 20,
    1994
    GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
    )
    ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIVISION,
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    V.
    )
    PCB 91—160
    )
    (Variance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by C.A. Manning):
    On
    September
    5,
    1991,
    General
    Motors Corporation Electro-
    Motive Division (“GM”)
    filed a petition for an air variance for its
    facility located in LaGrange, Illinois.
    Pursuant to a December 16,
    1993
    Pollution
    Control
    Board
    order,
    GM
    and
    the
    Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency
    filed a
    joint status report on
    January
    14,
    1994.
    The parties
    indicate that the United States
    Environmental Protection Agency
    (“USEPA”)
    is promulgating
    a rule
    applicable to GM’s locomotive coating operations,
    and that USEPA
    had not yet responded to GM’s comments on the proposed rule.
    Both parties believe a hearing would be rendered unnecessary
    due to the USEPA’s reconsideration of the federal rules applicable
    to
    GM
    and
    the
    Agency’s
    position
    that
    it
    would
    not
    mandate
    compliance with 35
    Ill.
    Adm. Code Part 218 until that process
    is
    complete.
    Counsel for GM represents that the rules are currently
    before the Office of Management and Budget for review.
    The parties are hereby directed to file an additional status
    report with the Clerk of the Board on or before April 14, 1994.
    As
    was
    requested
    in
    the
    December
    16th
    order,
    the
    parties
    should
    indicate the status of the USEPA action on the locomotive coating
    operations rule, GM’s request to the Agency to reconsider the rules
    applicable to the silicone rubber priming and electrical insulating
    varnish
    operation,
    whether
    a hearing will be necessary and any
    projected tiineline for completion of these matters.
    A copy of the
    status report should also be served on the assigned hearing officer
    in this case.
    Finally,
    the
    joint
    status
    report
    also
    requests
    that
    the
    parties’ obligation to file a statement of disputed issues up to
    the date
    of
    the January
    14th
    status
    report
    be
    continued.
    The
    parties may file such a statement with the assigned hearing officer
    when serving him with a copy of the April status report.
    2
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy N. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby cer
    y that the above order was adopted on the
    ~
    day of
    -
    ,
    1994, by a vote of
    7-p
    .
    ~
    Dorothy M.,/1c~unn, Clerk
    Illinois Pô)dution Control Board

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