ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    July 27, 2000
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    )
    EXEMPTIONS FROM THE
    )
    DEFINITION OF VOM UPDATE,
    )
    R01-6
    USEPA REGULATIONS (January 1, 2000,
    )
    (Identical-in-Substance
    through June 30, 2000)
    )
    Rulemaking - Air)
    Proposed Rule. Dismissal Order.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by G.T. Girard):
    Section 9.1(e) of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/9.1(e) (1998))
    requires the Board to adopt regulations which are “identical in substance,” as defined at Section
    7.2 of the Act (415 ILCS 5/7.2 (1998)), to exemptions from the definition of “volatile organic
    material” (VOM), those compounds that the United States Environmental Protection Agency
    (USEPA) has found to be exempted from regulation under state implementation plans for ozone
    due to negligible photochemical reactivity. USEPA has codified these exemptions as part of its
    definitions at 40 C.F.R. 51.100(s). Accordingly, the Board reserved this docket for USEPA
    amendments during the period from January 1, 2000, through June 30, 2000.
    During the period from January 1, 2000, through June 30, 2000, USEPA did not amend
    its definition of VOM. Therefore, no action is necessary, and the Board hereby dismisses this
    docket.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, do hereby certify that
    the above order was adopted on the 27th day of July 2000 by a vote of 6-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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