ILLINOIS POLLUTION

CONTROL BOARD

February

9,

1984

MOBIL

CHEMICAL CO.,

)

Petitioner,

V.

)

PCI3 83—166

ILLINOIS

ENVIRONMENTAL

P1~OTECTI0N

I

Respondent.

ORDER OF

THE BOARD

(by B.

Forcade):

On

February

3,

1984,

Mobil

Chemical

Co.

(Mobil) filed an

Amended

Petition for Variance seeking

an extension of the

variance

previously granted in PCB

82~18

(November 12,

1982,

49

PCB 275).

On page

8,

the Amended

Petition

requests variance from

the

ammonia nitrogen water quality

standard of 15 mg/i.

In PCB 82~18Mobil was granted a

variance from the 15 mg/i

water

quality standard of 35

Ill.

Admin,

Code 302.208.

Since

that

time the ammonia nitrogen requirements

of Section 302.208

have

been deleted and replaced by

Section 302.212 which regulates

ammonia

nitrogen and un—ionized

ammonia,

Mobil has provided no

information on

un~ionizedammonia levels

nor requested limita—

tions to

replace Section 302.212

(b.

Unless

an

Amended Petition is filed within

45 days of the

date of

this Order curing the above~noted

defect, this petition

will

be subject to dismissal.

On p.

8 of the Amended Petition,

Mobil asserts that Outfall

002 is

not a point source within

the purview of the Clean Water

Act.

The

parties are requested to

address

this issue

in light of

U.S.

v,

~

14 ERC 1321

(E.D.

Penn,

1980).

IT IS SO ORDERED,

I, Christan L,

Moffett, Clerk of the

Illinois Pollution

Control

Board, hereb

c rtify the above

Order was adopted

O~

the

~

day of

~?

~

1984 by a vote of

Christan

L. Moffett,

C~e~rk

Illinois Pollution Control Board