ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

March 1, 2001

IN THE MATTER OF: )

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EXEMPTIONS FROM THE )

DEFINITION OF VOM UPDATE, ) R01-19

USEPA REGULATIONS (July 1, 2000, ) (Identical-in-Substance

through December 31, 2000) ) Rulemaking - Air)

Proposed Rule. Dismissal Order.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by G.T. Girard):

Section 9.1(e) of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/9.1(e) (1998))

requires the Board to adopt regulations which are “identical in substance,” as defined at

Section 7.2 of the Act (415 ILCS 5/7.2 (1998)), to exemptions from the definition of “volatile

organic material” (VOM), those compounds that the United States Environmental Protection

Agency (USEPA) has found to be exempted from regulation under state implementation plans

for ozone due to negligible photochemical reactivity. USEPA has codified these exemptions as

part of its definitions at 40 C.F.R. 51.100(s). Accordingly, the Board reserved this docket for

USEPA amendments during the period between July 1, 2000, and December 31, 2000.

During that time period, USEPA did not amend its definition of VOM. Therefore, no

action is necessary, and the Board hereby dismisses this docket.

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 1st day of March 2001 by a vote of 7-0.

Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board