ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

April

15,

1982

IN THE

MATTER OF:

PROPOSED

AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER

2:

AIR

POLLUTION,

RULES 309,

312 AND 405,

)

R80—11

NON—METHANE

HYDROCARBON AND OZONE

STANDARDS,

OZONE EPISODE CRITERIA.

~ted

Rule,

Final_Order,

ORDER OF

THE BOARD

(by J.

Anderson):

At

its April

13,

1982 meeting the Joint Committee

on

Administrative

Rules determined that it had

no objection to the

proposed

rules sent

to second notice by

the Board~sOrder of

March 19,

1982,

During the second

notice period, however, the

Board had

agreed,

with Agency

concurrence,

to delete from the

last line

of Rule 312(b)

language stating “or by an

equivalent

method

approved by the Agency”.

The Board adopts the proposed Opinion of March 19,

1982

as its

Final Opinion.

The Board hereby adopts the

following

amendments

to Chapter 2,

and directs the Clerk to file

them

with the Secretary of State as final rules.

Rule

309:

p~ed.

Rule

312:

~

Ozone.

(a)

Standard.

The ambient air quality standard for

etee~eM~eaei~aft~s

ozone is O,l2fl~ ~6ø

(235

micrograms per cubic meter) +~9~-p~m4maximum

one—hour concentration not to he exceeded ~e~e

a~-e~ee—pe~yea~

on more ~

(h)

Measurement Method,

For determining conformance

with the phe~eehemea~-ex~aff~s

ozone air quality

standard, ~he~eehem~e

-e~a~s ozone shall

he

measured by the ozone~ethylene reaction method

as described in ~

~239~7-Nevembef~~2By

97-efy-a~—e~4va~eI~

~

40 CFR~Q~p~endix

D,

as amended.

46~i25

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Rule

405:

CRITERIA FOR DECLARING_EPISODE_STAGES

(a)

Watch, Alert,

and Emergency Levels

Averaging

Yellow

Red

Pollutant

Tiire

Watch

Alert

Alert

Err~rgency

Ozone

(ppm)

2-hour

T9~

.12

1—hour

9~ 0,20

0,30

0.50

IT IS SO ORDERED,

Board Chairman J, Dumelle concurred.

I,

Christan

L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois

Pollution

Control

Board, hereby cer~ifythat the above Order was

adop ed on

the

J~j’

day of

~

1982 by a vote

of

~

Christan

L. Moffe’t~,j7~lerk

Illinois Pollution

~óntrol