ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September
    8,
    1988
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    THE PETITION OF JOHN DEERE
    HARVESTER-MOLINE (FORMERLY
    )
    R87-1
    PLOW
    & PLANTER) WORKS OF
    DEERE & COMPANY
    )
    PROPOSED RULE.
    SECOND NOTICE.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J. Theodore Meyer):
    This matter
    is before the Board on a petition
    for amendment
    to regulations filed by John Deere Harvester—Moline (formerly
    Plow and Planter) Works of Deere
    & Company (herein Deere)
    on
    December
    23,
    1986.
    Deere’s petition seeks
    to add a new section
    to 35
    Ill.
    Adm.
    Code 215,
    which imposes organic material emission
    standards and limitations.
    Specifically, the petition requests
    that Deere’s Harvester—Moline Works be exempted from 35
    Ill.
    Adm.
    Code 215.204(k), which sets a limit of 3.5—4.8 pounds per gallon
    (lb/gal)
    on volatile organic material
    (VOM)
    emissions
    from the
    coating
    of heavy off—highway vehicles.
    Deere asks that its
    existing green and yellow flocoating operations be allowed
    to
    emit up to
    a weekly average
    of 6.2 lb/gal.
    On May 19, 1988,
    the Board proposed the requested rule
    for
    First Notice.
    The proposed rule was published
    in the Illinois
    Register on June 10, 1988,
    at 12
    Ill. Reg. 9787.
    The Board’s
    rationale
    for proposing
    the rule
    is set forth
    in
    the Proposed
    Opinion of May 19,
    1988.
    The Board
    received only one public comment during First
    Notice.
    The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs .~tated
    that this proposed rule will have no effect on small businesses.
    The Board
    finds no reason
    to alter
    its proposal.
    Thus,
    the Board
    hereby proposes the following amendments
    for Second Notice, which
    are to be filed with the Joint Committee
    on
    Administrative Rules.
    TITLE
    35:
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
    SUBTITLE B:
    AIR POLLUTION
    CHAPTER
    I:
    POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    SUBCHAPTER
    C:
    EMISSION STANDARDS AND
    LIMITATIONS FOR STATIONARY SOURCES
    PART 215
    ORGANIC MATERIAL EMISSION STANDARDS
    AND LIMITATIONS
    92—237
    —2—
    SUBPART
    F:
    COATING OPERATIONS
    Section
    215.206
    Exemptions from Emission Limitations
    a)
    The limitations of
    this Subpart shall not apply to:
    1)
    Coating plants whose emissions of volatile organic
    material as limited by the operating permit will
    not exceed 22.7 Mg/year (25 T/year),
    in the
    absence of air pollution control equipment; or
    2)
    Sources used exclusively for chemical or physical
    analysis or determination of product quality and
    commercial acceptance provided that:
    A)
    The operation of the
    source is not an
    integral part of the production process;
    B)
    The emissions from the source do not exceed
    363
    kg
    (800
    lbs)
    in any calendar month;
    and
    C)
    The exemption is approved
    in writing by the
    Agency.
    3)
    Interior body spray coating material for
    three—
    piece steel cans used by National Can Corporation
    at its Rockford can manufacturing plant
    in Loves
    Park, Illinois,
    provided that:
    A)
    The emission of volatile organic material
    from the interior body spray coating line
    shall
    not exceed 0.70 kg/l (5.8 lb/gal)
    of
    coating material, excluding water, delivered
    to the coating applicator; and
    B)
    The emission of volatile organid mater.tal
    shall comply with the provisions of Section
    215.204 by use of the internal offset
    provisions of Section 215.207 computed on a
    weekly weighted average basis.
    b)
    The limitations
    of Section 215.204(j)
    shall not apply
    to the Waukegan,
    Illinois, facilities of the Outboard
    Marine Corporation,
    so
    long
    as the emissions
    of
    volatile organic material related
    to the surface
    coating of miscellaneous metal parts and products at
    those facilities do not exceed 35 tons per year.
    c)
    Notwithstanding
    the limitations of Section
    215.204(k)(2), the John Deere Harvester—Moline Works of
    Deere
    & Company, Moline,
    Illinois,
    shall not cause
    or
    92—238
    —3—
    permit the emission of volatile organic material
    from
    its existing green and yellow flocoating operations to
    exceed a weekly average of 6.2 lb/gal.
    (Source:
    Amended at 12 Ill. Reg.
    ______,
    effective
    ____________
    IT
    IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    hereby certify that the above Proposed Order was adopted
    on th~~’~ day of
    _________________,
    1988,
    by a vote
    ~
    Dorothy M.
    G).~1~n,Clefk
    Illinois Pc~,XutionControl
    Board
    92—239

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