ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March 24,
    1988
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    PROPOSED SITE—SPECIFIC RULE
    )
    R88—4
    CHANGE FOR CONTAINER
    )
    CORPORATION’S CAROL STREAM
    )
    PLANT:
    35
    ILL.
    ADM.
    CODE
    )
    215.245
    )
    PROPOSED RULE
    FIRST NOTICE
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Michael Nardulli):
    This matter comes before the Board on a Petition
    for Site
    Specific Rule Change filed on behalf
    of the Container Corporation
    of America’s Carol Stream Plant on January
    20r
    1988.
    On October
    29,
    1987,
    in the R85—21(b) proceeding,
    the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board adopted
    a revised
    35
    Ill.
    Adm.
    Code Section
    215.245.
    Prior
    to the adoption of the new Section 215.245,
    sources
    of volatile organic material
    (hereinafter
    ~VOM”)
    emissions which had aggregate uncontrolled VOM emissions of less
    than one—thousand
    (1000)
    tons,
    and were located
    in ozone non—
    attainment areas, were exempted from Subpart P of Part 215 of the
    Board’s Air Pollution Rules
    (35 Ill.
    Adm. Code 215.401—
    215.407).
    Subpart P requires sources operating rotogravure and
    flexographic printing presses
    to limit VOM emissions
    from those
    presses either by the use of low—VOM
    inks and/or by installing
    and operating control equipment with an overall efficiency of 60
    for flexographic presses and 65
    for packaging rotogravure
    presses.
    The adoption of the new Section 215.245
    reduced the
    level
    for exemption from one—thousand
    (1000)
    tons to one-hundred
    (100)
    tons for ozone non—attainment counties.
    The Board
    specified
    in its October
    28,
    1987 order
    that sources which became
    subject
    to Subpart P because of the revision to Section 215.245
    must comply with Subpart
    P by December
    31,
    1987.
    As
    a result of the revision to Section 215.245
    the Container
    Corporation of America’s Carol Stream Plant
    is now subject
    to
    Subpart
    P
    of Part 215
    of the Board’s Air Pollution Rules
    (35 Ill.
    Adm.
    Code
    215.401—215.407).
    Pursuant
    to Section
    27 and 28 of the
    Environmental Protection Act
    (Ill.
    Rev. Stat.
    ch.
    lllI/~, Secs.
    1027—1028
    (1987))
    and Part 102
    of the Board Procedural
    Rules
    (35
    Ill. Mm.
    Code Secs.
    102.101—102.220)
    the Petitioner
    petitions
    the Board
    to amend
    35
    Ill. Mm.
    Code Sec.
    215.245
    to add a new
    Subsection
    (c)
    as set forth below.
    On January
    21,
    1988, the Board adopted Resolution
    88—1,
    which outlined various procedures which
    the Board would begin to
    utilize in order
    to expedite the rulemaking process.
    One of
    87—319
    these procedures
    is
    for
    the Board
    to send
    a regulatory proposal
    to First Notice before ruling on the merits
    of
    the proposal.
    The
    Board
    finds
    that
    it
    is appropriate
    to utilize that procedure
    in
    this proceeding.
    As a result,
    the Board hereby adopts the proposal set forth
    below for First Notice and directs
    the Hearing Officer
    to cause
    the publication of
    the proposal
    in the Illinois Register.
    This
    action
    is
    in no way
    to be construed
    as
    the Board’s substantive
    position with regard
    to this matter.
    Also,
    consistent
    with Res88—1,
    the Board directs the Hearing
    Officer
    to schedule only one merit hearing
    in this matter.
    No
    other hearings will be scheduled unless
    the Board
    finds
    that the
    issues of this proceeding warrant further investigation.
    In
    addition,
    the Hearing Officer
    is
    to establish deadlines for the
    pre—filing
    of testimony and exhibits
    for anyone who wishes
    to
    introduce evidence at the merit hearing.
    Those who do not
    prefLie
    such materials will be able
    to present
    their evidence
    only
    if
    time permits
    at the end of
    the hearing process.
    The Board believes that such procedures will
    accelerate the
    rulemaking process and at the same time provide continued
    opportunity
    for public participation.
    Proposed Regulation
    Section 215.245
    Flexographic and Rotogravure Printing
    a)
    The limitations
    of Subpart P shall apply unless the
    facility’s aggregate uncontrolled rotogravure and/or
    flexographic printing press emissions of volatile organic
    material are limited by operating permit conditions to
    90.7 Mg (100
    tons)
    per year
    or less in the absence of air
    pollution control equipment or whose actual emissions
    in
    the absence
    of air pollution control equipment would be
    less than or equal to 90.7 Mg
    (100 tons)
    per year when
    averaged over
    the preceding three calendar years.
    b)
    If an owner or operator
    of
    a packaging rotogravure
    printing press proposes
    to comply with the limitations
    of
    Section 215.401 pursuant to subsection
    (3)
    of
    that
    Section,
    then the combined capture and control system
    must provide an overall reduction in volatile organic
    material emissions of at
    least
    65 percent.
    87—320
    c)
    This Section shall not apply to the folding carton plant
    (currently owned
    by Container Corporation of America)
    located on North Avenue
    in Carol Stream,
    Illinois.
    IT SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy M Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify that the above Order was adopted on the
    c~~SI~i
    day of _______________________,
    1988,
    by a vote of
    Dorothy
    M.
    Gunn, Clerk,
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    87—321

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