ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    November 21,
    1991
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    )
    PETITION OF MARATHON OIL
    )
    R91-23
    COMPANY FOR SITE-SPECIFIC
    )
    (Site—Specific Rulemaking)
    WATER REGULATION:
    35
    ILL.
    )
    ADM. CODE 303.323
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by M. Nardulli):
    On August
    19,
    1991, Marathon Oil Company
    (Marathon)
    filed a
    petition for amendment to the existing site—specific regulation
    applicable
    to
    its
    petroleum
    refinery
    located
    near
    Robinson,
    Illinois
    in Crawford County.
    On October
    3,
    1991, Marathon filed
    its response to the Board’s order noting certain deficiencies
    in
    the
    petition
    and,
    on October
    10,
    1991,
    the Board
    accepted the
    petition for hearing.
    By the instant petition, Marathon seeks to increase chlorine
    limitations discharged into an unnamed tributary of
    Sugar Creek.
    tOn
    October
    31,
    1991,
    the
    Department
    of
    Energy
    and
    Natural
    Resources filed its comment on the appropriateness of an Economic
    Impact
    Study
    (EcIS).
    ENR believes that
    a
    formal
    EcIS
    is
    not
    necessary
    because
    a
    substantial
    record
    regarding
    technical
    feasibility
    and
    economic
    reasonableness
    was
    generated
    in
    the
    previous site-specific rulemaking proposed by Marathon which it now
    seeks to amend.
    (See, R87-2.)
    According to ENR, “any
    petition-
    specific gaps in that information can be filled in during the
    merit
    hearings
    ...
    .“
    Marathon also filed
    a comment asking that the
    Board enter
    an
    order
    finding that
    no EcIS
    is necessary because
    “Marathon
    itself
    is the only person that will have
    an economic
    interest
    in this relief
    ...
    •“
    The Board agrees with ENR and Marathon that no EcIS should be
    prepared in this proceeding.
    The Board will,
    of course, consider
    the economic impact of this proposal.
    (Ill. Rev.
    Stat.
    1989,
    ch.
    111 1/2, par.
    1027(a).)
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    B~ard,hereby certify that the above Order was adopted on the
    ~,‘—~--~
    day
    of
    ~
    1991
    by
    a
    vote
    of
    ~‘
    -
    lution Control Board
    127—39 7

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