ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March 26,
    1992
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    )
    EXPANSION OF APPLICABILITY OF
    )
    REASONABLY AVAILABLE CONTROL
    )
    TECHNOLOGY FOR OZONE TO GOOSE
    )
    R91-28
    LAKE AND AUX SABLE TOWNSHIPS IN
    )
    (Rulemaking)
    GRUNDY COUNTY,
    ILLINOIS, AND
    OSWEGO TOWNSHIP IN KENDALL COUNTY
    )
    ILLINOIS:
    AMENDMENTS TO 35
    ILL.
    ADM. CODE PARTS 215 AND 218
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by R.
    C.
    Fleinal):
    On February 18,
    1992, the Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency
    (Agency)
    filed this proposal for rulemaking.
    The proposal
    is intended to expand the geographical applicability of
    reasonably available control technology
    (RACT)
    regulations to
    certain stationary sources of volatile organic material
    (VON)
    in
    Goose Lake and Aux Sable Townships in Grundy County,
    Illinois,
    and to Oswego Township in Kendall County,
    Illinois.
    OnFebruary
    27, l~92,the Board accepted this proposed
    rulemaking for hearing.
    Section 27 of the Act requires the
    Board,
    within 60 days of accepting a proposal for hearing, to
    determine whether an economic impact study
    (“EcIS”)
    should be
    conducted.
    That Section further allows a 21 day comment period
    for
    any
    person to request the Board to determine that an EcIS be
    prepared or not prepared.
    The 21 days expired on March 17,
    1992.
    In this proceeding,
    the Board received written comments from
    the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency),
    filed on
    February
    18,
    1992 with the proposal.
    The Agency requests that
    the Board determine that an EcIS not be prepared.
    The Agency
    states that
    it
    has identified the sources that would be affected
    by the expansion of the applicability of Part 218.
    The Agency
    further states that the Board did not require an EcIS for R9l-7,
    the proceeding by which the Board adopted Part 218.
    After consideration of the above comments and the proposed
    rulemaking,
    the Board presently believes that the presentation of
    economic information at hearing and in comments in this
    proceeding should be sufficient for the Board’s consideration of
    the economic impact of the proposed rule.
    The Board therefore
    finds that the preparation of an EcIS need not be conducted in
    this matter at this time.
    131—569
    2
    The Board further notes that Section 27 of the Act also
    provides for the Board to change its determination that an EcIS
    need not be prepared under specific circumstances:
    any time prior to the close of the record during
    the rulemaking proceeding,
    the Board may determine that
    an economic impact study be prepared,
    if the proposal
    has been substantially modified or if information in
    the recor~indicates that an economic impact study
    wo~ildbe advisable.
    IT
    IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy M. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Bo~~ hereby certify that the above Order was adopted on the
    r~~(CL4~~
    day of
    _____________________,
    1992 by a vote of
    ~
    Dorothy M. ,~nn,Clerk
    Illinois P~A1utionControl Board
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