ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

April 27,

1989

IN THE MATTER OF:

)

LIMITS TO VOLATILITY OF

)

R88—30

GASOLINE

)

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by J.D. Dumelle):

This matter comes before

the Board upon an April

4,

1989

proposal for rulemaking filed

by the Chicago Lung Association

(Association).

The Association submitted

a proposed rule to set

limits on the volatility of gasoline.

On April

6,

1989, The Board adopted an Order noting that

additional information would be required before the Board

could

accept

the proposal for hearing.

On April

13,

1989,

the

Association

responded to the Board’s April

6 Order.

The

Association filed

a proof of service upon the Illinois

Environmental Protection Agency and upon the Department of Energy

and Natural Resources

(Department).

Also,

the Association stated

its belief that there

is adequate

information

in the record,

or

which can be introduced

at hearing,

to address the issue of

the

economic impact of the proposed

rule.

Therefore,

the Association

recommends

that a formal economic impact study

(EcIS)

need not be

prepared by the Department.

The Board hereby accepts the proposal for hearing.

The

Board directs

the Hearing Officer

to establish a hearing

schedule, which may include

a schedule for

the pre—filing of

materials to be presented at hearing.

Pursuant

to Section 27(a)

of

the Environmental Protection

Act

(Act), within 21

days of the date of this Order,

any person

may request the Board

to determine that an EelS should or should

not

be prepared.

Such requests are to be made in writing and

must “detail the reasons for the request and describe,

to the

extent reasonably practicable,

the economic impact of the

proposed rule”.

IT

IS SO ORDERED.

I,

Dorothy M.

Gunn, Clerk of

the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, here~y_certifythat

e abpve Order was adopted on

the

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da.y of

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1989 by

a vote

of

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Dorothy M. 20n, Clerk

Illinois P~Ji1utionControl Board

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