ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January 5,
    1989
    MONSANTO COMPANY,
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 88-206
    Docket
    A
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    )
    ORDER
    OF THE BOARD
    (by
    B.
    Forcade):
    In
    Monsanto Company
    v.
    EPA, PCB 88-2068, Monsanto Company
    (“Monsanto”)
    filed
    a December 30,
    1988 petition
    for variance from Section 215.966,
    35
    Ill.
    Adm. Code 215.966
    (1988),
    of the Board’s Air Pollution rules.
    Monsanto
    claimed
    four narrow items
    of
    information as trade secrets not subject
    to
    Section
    7 disclosure.
    See
    Ill.
    Rev.
    Stat.
    ch.
    111
    1/2, par. 1007 (1988).
    Accompanying that petffT6n was
    a Statement
    of Justification.
    See 35
    Ill. Adm.
    Code 120.201(a)(3)
    &
    120.202 (1988).
    The Board has reviewed the Monsanto petition for variance
    as submitted to
    the Board, the claimed trade secret
    information contained therein,
    and
    Monsanto’s Statement of Justification
    in light of Sections 120.103, 120.201,
    and 120.202
    of its Identification and Protection of Trade Secrets rules.
    The
    Board has not received
    a
    request for the claimed information nor any objection
    to the claims.
    See Sections 120.103 & 120.210.
    The Board determines the claimed items of information are subject to
    protection as confidential
    information.
    The Board will protect this
    information pursuant to
    Part 120, Subpart
    C
    of Title
    35 of the Illinois
    Administrative Code, until
    such
    a time as
    it receives official nbtification of
    a
    final
    order by
    a reviewing body which
    reverses this determination,
    or until
    such time as P08 88-2068 proceeding has terminated and Monsanto has requested
    the return of
    all
    copies
    of the variance petition containing the subject
    information.
    ORDER
    The Board hereby orders
    the Clerk
    of the
    Board to protect these articles
    pursuant
    to Subpart
    C
    of
    35
    Ill. Adm. Code 120,
    and to mark these items with
    the word “DETERMINED” pursuant
    to
    35
    Ill.
    Adn. Code 120.310.
    IT
    IS
    SO ORDERED.
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    I, Dorothy
    M.
    Gunn, Clerk
    of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby
    certify
    t
    at the above Order was adopted
    on the
    Zi
    day
    of ______________________,
    1988,
    by
    a vote of
    7—ø
    Illinois Pollution Control
    Board
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