ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 13, 1992
    IN THE MATTER OF:.
    )
    GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
    )
    R90-23
    SITE-SPECIFIC EXCEPTION TO
    )
    (Rulemaking)
    35 ILL.
    ADM. CODE 216.381
    )
    FOR FERROUS FOUNDRIES IN
    )
    VERMILION COUNTY.
    )
    Proposed Rule.
    Second Notice.
    OPINION
    AND
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by B. Forcade):
    This matter comes before the Board on the October 10,
    1990,
    proposal of General Motors Corporation
    (GM)
    for site-specific
    relief from Section 216.381
    (35 Ill. Adm. Code 216.381) and GM’s
    amended petition filed on December 21,
    1990.
    Section 216.381
    limits the emission of gases containing carbon monoxide from
    cupolas to a concentration of carbon monoxide of 200 ppm.
    The
    petition seeks exception to this limit for foundries located in
    Vermilion County and imposes a limit of 2,000 ppm for carbon
    monoxide emissions from cupolas in Vermilion County.
    In a March 14,
    1991,
    order,
    the Board determined that an
    Economic Impact Statement was not required.
    Hearings were held
    on August 27,
    1991 in Chicago,
    Illinois and on August 29,
    1991 in
    Danville, Illinois.
    The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency) and the Department of Energy and Natural Resources
    (DENR)
    participated in the hearings.
    Several members of the
    public also attended the hearings.
    GM filed a memorandum in
    support of the petition on October 30, 1991,
    along with the
    engineering studies and stack test reports requested at the
    hearing.
    Public comments were received from DENR and the Agency.
    In
    P.C.
    #1, DENR provided the Board with a list of foundries in
    Illinois.
    The Agency,
    in P.C.
    #2, supported the proposed rule.
    By order of June
    4,
    1992, the Board sent this proposal to
    first notice, pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Illinois
    Administrative Procedure Act.
    First notice publication occurred
    at
    16 Ill. Reg.
    9297,
    June 19,
    1992.
    The 45 day comment period
    ended on August
    3,
    1992.
    A public comment was received from the Administrative Code
    Division of the Office of the Secretary of State noting some
    typographical errors and changes to the source notes.
    The
    suggested changes will be made to the proposed amendment.
    A review of the proposed rule prompts the Board to make one
    minor change.
    In Section 216.382, that portion that reads
    “Section 216.381 does not apply
    ...“
    will read “35 Ill. Adm. Code
    0135-
    OL~05
    2
    216.381 shall not apply
    •.“
    The Board makes no further
    revision and will hereby propose the rule for second notice
    publication.
    ORDER
    The Board hereby directs that second notice of the following
    proposed amendments be submitted to the Joint Committee on
    Administrative Rules.
    SUBPART 0:
    PRIMARY
    AND
    FABRICATED
    METAL
    PRODUCTS
    Section 216.381
    Cupolas
    No person shall cause or allow the emission of gases
    containing carbon monoxide into the atmosphere from any
    cupola with a manufacturer’s rated melt rate in excess
    of
    5 tons per hour,
    unless such gases are burned in a
    direct flame afterburner so that the resulting
    concentration of carbon monoxide in such gases is less
    than or equal to 200 ppm corrected to 50 percent excess
    air or such gas streams are controlled by other
    equivalent pollution control equipment approved by the
    Agency according to the provisions of 35 Ill.
    Adm. Code
    201.
    Section 216.382
    .
    Exception.
    General Motor’s Ferrous
    Foundry in Vermilion County
    The standard for carbon monoxide of
    35
    Ill.
    Adm. Code
    216.381 shall not apply to the existing ferrous foundry
    located adiacent to Interstate 74 at G Street in
    Vermilion County.
    owned by General Motors Corporation
    on the effective date of this regulation.
    The emission
    of carbon monoxide from this foundry shall not exceed
    2,000 ppm corrected to
    50 percent excess air.
    (Source:
    Added at
    Ill. Reg.
    _________,
    effective
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy N.
    Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certJ~ythat the above opinion and order was
    adopted on the Ji~i~-day of
    ________________,
    1992, by a vote
    of
    7—c
    .
    *
    /~
    Dorothy N.
    ,~/nn,
    Clerk
    Illinois PáYlution Control Board
    0135-01+06

    Back to top