ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL
    BOARD
    October 29,
    1992
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    PETITION OF CABOT CORPORATION
    )
    AS 91-10
    FOR AN ADJUSTED STANDARD FROM
    )
    (Adjusted Standard)
    THE REQUIREMENTS OF 35 ILL.
    )
    ADMIN. CODE SECTION 725.293
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J. Anderson):
    On October 13,
    1992,
    Cabot Corporation (Cabot)
    filed
    a
    motion for an extension of time to file its reply to the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency’s (Agency) Response to
    Petitioner’s Demonstration.
    Cabot requests an extension until
    December
    15,
    1992 from its present filing deadline of October 16,
    1992.
    This matter concerns Cabot’s December 27,
    1991 petition for
    an adjusted standard and its June 25,
    1992 alternative design and
    operating practices demonstration.
    Cabot seeks an adjusted
    standard from certain secondary containment requirements for
    tanks containing hazardous waste.
    See 35 Ill.
    Adm. Code 725.293.
    Cabot requests the extension of time so as to have
    additional discussions with the Agency in an effort to resolve
    outstanding issues.
    An additional meeting has been scheduled
    with the Agency for October 29,
    1992.
    Cabot simply asserts,
    without more,
    that the extension until December
    15 “will not
    prevent Cabot from meeting existing deadlines by which to install
    secondary containment if that becomes necessary.t’
    (Cabot motion,
    October 13,
    1992 at
    2..)
    As the Board has pointed out to Cabot in considerable detail
    in two previous orders, adjusted standard relief from these
    particular RCRA standards involves procedurally unique
    requirements.
    See Orders of March 26 and July 9,
    1992.
    These
    requirements include the need to “time” the Board decision early
    enough for Cabot to comply with a federally-derived deadline for
    compliance with the secondary containment requirements should the
    Board not grant the relief.
    That RCRA deadline is January,
    1994.
    The Board grants the time extension until December 15,
    1992.
    However, we caution Cabot that it bears the burden of assuring
    that its time estimates are sufficient to meet the deadline.
    We
    emphasize that those time estimates must include ample time for
    the Board to independently review, deliberate and act upon
    Cabot’s adjusted standard request.
    IT
    IS
    SO
    ORDERED.
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    109
    2
    I, Dorothy
    M.
    Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify
    that
    the above order wa~adopted on the
    ~
    day of
    (i’-
    —t~-u2
    ,
    1992 by a vote of
    7
    C
    7
    Dorothy N. 9~n, Clerk
    Illinois
    P,Ø’l ution Control Board
    Cr1370110

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