ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

February 20,

1985

IN THE MATTER OF:

CLIFFORD—JACOBS FORGING

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R83-25

COMPANY PETITION FOR A

SITE-SPEC.LFLC OPERATIONAL

LEVEL PURSUANT TO 35 ILL.

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ADM. CODE 901.105(d)

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PROPOSED RULE.

SECOND NOTICE.

PROPOSED OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by J.

Marlin):

In its Proposed Opinion and Order of December

6,

1984,

the Board proposed to adopt a new rule,

35

Iii.

Adm. Code

901.119.

First notice of this proposal was published

at

9

Ill. Reg.

29 on January

4,

1985.

The first notice

comment period expired on February

19, 1985.

The ~d~inistrative

Code Unit submitted a comment on January 24, 1985 concerning

Illinois Register first notice format.

On January

3,

1985,

Engineering Dynamics International of

St. Louis, Missouri

suggested adding

a subsection c to the proposed rule:

“wjhen

upgrading facility, replace worn out hammers with

those that produce

less sound”.

The engineer also suggested

that Clifford-Jacobs buy nearby land as an economical

buffer zone.

No other comments have been received.

In response to the comments by Engineering Dynamics

International, while the record does not show

if surrounding

land

is available for purchase by Clifford—Jacobs,

the

Board doubts that such action would be beneficial.

~?gardL~ss

of who o~tnsthe surrounding land, the noise levels would

remain

the

same when measured at the Class A residences.

The Board declines to add a subsection c.

The idea

of

upgrading with less noisy equipment is already mentioned

on page three of the December 6,

1984 Opinion.

The

hearing

r~cor~1

does not provide adequate support for requiring such equipment

or even establish that

it currently exists.

If noise

levels become excessive,

citizens have the right to initinte

proceedings to change the rule.

Tht~:efore, the Board directs that second notice of

the following proposed rule be submitted to the Joint

Committee on Administrative Rules:

TITLE

35:

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

SUBTITLE H:

NOISE

CHAPTER

I:

POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

PART 901

SOUND EMISSION STANDARDS AND LIMITATIONS

FOR PROPERTY LINE-NOISE-SOURCES

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Section 901.119

Clifford-Jacobs Operational Level

Clifford-Jacobs Forging Company and future owners of the

forging facility located at North Market Street, cham~aign,

‘Illinois,

shall comply with the following site—specific

operational level:

a)

~rate

no more than fourteen hammers at~~

one time; and

b)

~

its forging hammers only between the

hours of 6:00

a.m.

and ~

Monday through

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Dorothy M. Gunn,

Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify that the above Order was

adopted on the

____________

day of

J--~-~

,

1985

byavoteof

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Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control

Board