ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

March 28,

1991

IN THE MATTER OF:

)

STEPAN COMPANY

)

AS 88-2

(Adjusted Standards)

ORDER OF THE BOARD BY

(J.

C. Marlin):

This matter is before the Board on Petitioner Stepan

Company’s

(“Stepan”)

Status Report and Motion to Hold Hearings in

Abeyance filed March

13,

1991.

The status report and

accompanying motion advises the Board that Stepan’s appeal of the

Federal Implementation Plan

(FIP)

has now been severed from that

of co-petitioners’

in that federal proceeding,

in order for the

United States Environmental Protection Agency and Stepan to

jointly work toward a federal site specific regulatory proposal

for Stepan.

Stepan believes its state action should now be held

in abeyance while its federal action moves forward.

The current

state docket should be retained, Stepan argues,

for completion of

the state adjusted standard rulemaking.

Stepan advises that

status reports of its progress on the federal level would be

filed every

90 days should the Board grant this motion.

Stepan~smotion is granted.

Stepan shall provide the Board

with

a status report of progress on the federal rulemaking on or

before June

28,

1991 and every 90 days thereafter until the

federal rulemaking

is either granted or denied.

Thereafter, both

parties are ordered to move as expeditiously as possible toward

the completion of this docket.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I,

Dorothy M. Gunn,

Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board

hereby certify that the above Ord~rwas adopted on the

____________

day of _______________________,

1991 by a vote

of

7 ~

.

Dorothy M. 9~nn,Clerk

Illinois porlution Control Board

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