ILLINOIS

POLLUTION

CONTROL BOARD

December

17,

1981

IN THE MATTER OF:

)

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER

2,

)

R77-15

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL RULES AND

)

REGULATIONS, RULES 204(c)(l) AND 204(h).)

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by

I.

Goodman):

On December

10, 1981 the Board received CPC Internationals

Inc.’s

(CPC) Motion to Expedite the Board’s adoption of relaxed

SO

emission limitations

for its boilers located in Pekin,

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no~s,which is encompassed by the Peoria major metropolitan area.

Essentially, CPC requested that the Board include CPC in this pro-

ceeding’s final adoption of Rule 204(c)(l)(E).

Rule 204(c)(1)(E)

is designed to relax the

SO., standards for three existing

sources

in the Peoria major metropotitan area which presently use Illinois

coal, and thereby do not meet the State Implementation Plan

(SIP)

limit of 1.8-lb. per million Btu of actual heat input.

CPC,

having converted to low sulfur coal, does comply with the SIP

SO.,

emission limitation.

Having been the “good sport” by so

dotng, CPC argues that it should be included under this relaxed

rule so that it may begin reconversion to Illinois coal.

Relaxation of the SO

emission limits

for sources such as

CPC is more properly cons~deredin a pending related proceeding.

R80-22.

R80-22 addresses the. Illinois Enviro~er~ta1

?rote.ctioT~

Agency’s (Agency) proposed amendments to Chapter

2

of the Board

regulations

for

SO., emission standards for existing fuel combus-

tion sources.

Thin proposal was the outcome of §9.2 of the

Act’s

mandate that the Agency review SO2 emission limits for sources

located in major metropolitan areas

(Peoria being one),

submit

proposed amendments to the Board, and that any such proposed

standards

“.

.

.be designed to enhance the use of Illinois

coal

.

.

.“

(Ill.Rev.Stat,,

Ch.

111½,

§1009.2,

1981).

Therefore, both CPC,

in requesting inclusion in R77—l5 so that

it may now reconvert pursuant to the limit set out therein, and

the Board,

should it grant such a motion, would be anticipating

the final outcome of the R8O~22proceeding.

Although R80-22 is delayed pending submittal of the Economic

Impact Study,

the Board anticipates

final action as soon there-

after as the strictures of Title

VII

of the Act and Administra-.

tive Procedure Act will allow,

CPC~smotion herein is denied.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I,

Christan L.

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Boyd, hereby ce tify that the above Order was adopted

on the

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day of

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1981 by a vote of

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Christan L. Mof

,

Clerk

Illinois Pollut

Control

board

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