NOTICE OF HEARINGS

Proposed Rule. Second Notice.
PROCEDURAL HISTORY
BACKGROUND
PROPOSAL OVERVIEW
THE USE OF HIGH VOLUME LOW PRESSURE SPRAY GUNS
THE REQUIREMENT TO RECORD AND REPORT VOM CONTENT AND GALLONS OF ALL COATINGS BY CATEGORY AND BY BATCH
ECONOMIC IMPACT
CONCLUSION
ORDER
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    1. Section 218.112 Incorporations by Reference

ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

December 5, 2002

IN THE MATTER OF:

PROPOSED HORWEEN LEATHER

COMPANY SITE-SPECIFIC AIR RULE,

35 ILL. ADM.CODE 218.112 and 218.929

(Site–Specific

Rulemaking - Air)

. Second Notice.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by M.E. Tristano):

This matter comes before the Board upon a proposal to amend the Board’s air quality

regulations for organic material emissions in the Chicago area. The proposal was filed by the

Horween Leather Company (Horween). Horween requests that the Board issue a site-specific

rule from 35 Ill. Adm. Code 218.112 and add a new section 218.929 to change the volatile

organic material (VOM) control requirements as applied to a small amount of new specialty

leathers that Horween plans to produce at its facility located at 2015 North Elston Avenue,

Chicago, Cook County. The requested rule change would allow Horween to continue to produce

its existing specialty leather pursuant to existing regulations, and develop new specialty leather

products in compliance with the modified regulation.

By today’s action the Board adopts the proposed amendments for the purpose of second

notice, pursuant to the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act (5 ILCS 100/1-1). The rules

adopted here are unchanged from those adopted in the Board’s August 8, 2002 first-notice

opinion and order.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Horween filed its proposal for rulemaking on February 19, 2002. By order of March 7,

2002, the Board accepted the proposal for hearing. On March 10, 2002, the Board mailed a

request to the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (DCCA) to perform an

economic impact study on the proposed rulemaking. DCCA did not prepare an economic impact

study, and no questions were raised or comments were made on that issue at hearing or during

the first-notice comment period.

A public hearing was held before Hearing Officer William Murphy in Chicago on June

26, 2002. Horween presented the testimony of Mr. Arnold Horween III and Julie M.

Christensen, Director of Safety and Environmental Compliance. The Illinois Environmental

Protection Agency (Agency) presented the testimony of Mr. Gary E. Beckstead, Environmental

Protection Engineer.

Prior to testimony, Horween through its attorney Mr. Roy Harsch, acknowledged that the

Agency had rewritten the site-specific proposal submitted in February. Horween concurred with

the Agency revision with two exceptions and subsequently offered a joint motion for its

substitution for Horween’s original draft. Joint Motion.

The Board entered its first notice opinion and order on August 8, 2002. The first notice

publication of the rules appeared in 26

Illinois Register

13772 (September 20, 2002). No public

comments were received during the first-notice comment period, which ended November 4,

Horween submitted a petition for relief from technical restraints associated with making

new types of specialty leather. The production requirements of leather that use higher solvent-

based finishes were the subject of Illinois’ original adoption of amendments to the generally

applicable Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) leather coating rule (35 Ill.Adm.

Code 218.926 and 211.6170).

In 1994, the Board, after thoroughly evaluating the required production need of specialty

leathers with a high grease, wax, and oil content, adopted a special subcategory for this

“specialty leather.” 35 Ill. Adm. Code 218.926 and 211.6170. The Board rule allows emission

of VOM in the amount of 38 pounds (lbs.) per 1,000 square feet and further provides an

exemption for the stains used on leather. 35 Ill. Adm. Code 218.96. Furthermore, the rule

specifically defines “specialty leather.” 35 Ill. Adm. Code 211.6170. This particular rule was

approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and included in the

Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP). 59 Fed. Reg. 46567 (Oct. 11, 1994).

Horween has identified two types of what it believes to be other “specialty leathers” that

do not meet the current definition under 35 Ill. Adm. Code 211.6170. The first group of leathers

includes a minor change to Horween’s existing CHROMEXCEL specialty leather. The second

group, performance leathers, includes leather previously made by a closed tannery. This leather

is referred to by Horween as “GENTRY.” The Agency’s revision to the proposed site-specific

rule utilizes a more generic approach and does not specify particular names for the new leathers

Horween is planning to coat. Tr. at 59. By utilizing a generic approach, a new site-specific

regulation would not need filing each time the fashion emphasis changes in the leather industry.

Horween evaluated the existing RACT rules to review potential impacts on future

environmental compliance should these new products be produced. Consequently, Horween

realized that, they would not be able to put these new leathers into production and continue to

comply with the existing Illinois RACT rules. Horween maintains that even though the

production of the newly proposed products cannot meet the current RACT rules, there is a

negligible environmental impact from producing these new products. The production of the new

specialty leathers at this facility will replace production that has been lost since 1995 and would

not exceed the VOM emissions from 1995 with an additional 20 ton per year (TPY) cap on these

new specialty leathers. Furthermore, Horween maintains it would not exceed current emission

limits already in place in the facility’s Title V permit and Emissions Reduction Market System

(ERMS) baseline.

PROPOSAL OVERVIEW

Section 218.929 - Cementable and Dress or Performance Shoe Leathers

Horween has proposed adding Section 218.929 to the Board’s Organic Material Emission

Standards and Limitations for the Chicago Area that sets forth the specific requirements

applicable to certain other specialty leathers outlined within the Section caption. The Agency

has suggested some revisions that are generally agreeable to both parties.

Section 218.929(a) outlines a number of criteria which must be met. Subsection (a) sets

The applicability of the rule that limits all exemptions and volume

emission modification to Horween’s leather manufacturing facility

located at 2015 North Elston Avenue, Chicago, Illinois;

VOM emission limits for production of cementable shoe leather with a

percent content of wax, grease, polymer and oils between 12 and 25%

by weight that cannot meet the definition of specialty leathers of 35 Ill.

Adm. Code 211.6170;

VOM emission limits for production of dress or performance shoe

leather finished with water emulsified coating materials that cannot meet

the definition of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 211.6170; and

No exemption from the annual 10-ton VOM cap applicable to stains

pursuant to Section 218.926(b)(2)(i).

Section 218.929(b) provides numeric limitations on emissions from the production of the

new leather products. They are 14 lbs. VOM/1,000 square feet for non-water resistant leathers;

24 lbs. VOM/1,000 square feet of leather produced for water resistant leather; and a total annual

VOM emission limit of 20 tons.

Section 218.929(c) requires compliance with the company’s approved standard operating

and maintenance procedures (SOMP).

Section 218.929(d) outlines reporting and record keeping requirements which are

consistent with the Subpart and Section 39.5 of the Act (415 ILCS 5/39.5) and allows for use of

an equivalent alternative plan if approved by the Agency and the USEPA.

Section 218.112(a)(26) also incorporates by reference ASTM D2099-00 Standard Test

Method for Dynamic Water Resistance of Shoe Upper Leather by the Maeser Water Penetration

Tester as referenced in 218.929(b)(1).

Horween agreed with the Agency revisions to the proposed rulemaking with two

exceptions: 1) the use of high volume low pressure spray guns; and 2) the requirement to record

and report VOM content and gallons of all coatings by category and by batch.

THE USE OF HIGH VOLUME LOW PRESSURE SPRAY GUNS

To be consistent with the full RACT provisions as approved by USEPA for the Maine

facility, the Agency proposed specific language at Section 218.929(c)(4) which would require

Horween to either convert to HVLP spray guns or document the lack of feasibility or cost

effectiveness for its conversion to the USEPA. Section 218.929(c)(4) sets forth:

A procedure to install and use high volume low pressure (HVLP) spray guns for

the coating of these leathers within one-year after USEPA approves this rule as a

SIP revision or the Company shall document why HVLP spray guns are not a

technically feasible or cost-effective method for applying coating at this facility.

The Agency, through the testimony of Mr. Beckstead, offered that Horween did not

provide sufficient documentation in support of its assertion that they cannot use HVLP spray

guns in their operation. Tr. at 61. Horween argues that Section 172(c)(1) of the Clean Air Act,

42 USC 7505(c)(1), requires that the State Implementation Plans (SIP) for non-attainment areas

provide for the implementation of reasonably available control measures (RACM) including

emission reductions obtained through the adoption of RACT. The USEPA has historically

defined RACT as the lowest emission limitation that a particular source is capable of meeting by

the application of control technology that is reasonably available considering technological and

economic feasibility.

44 Fed. Reg. 53762 (Sept. 17, 1979). By regulation, the Pollution

Control Board has adopted the USEPA’s historical definition of RACT.

35 Ill. Adm. Code

Further, Mr. Horween testified that a brief test was conducted using the HVLP spray

guns suggested by the Agency. Tr. at 65. The results indicated that the specialty leather

produced would not be of sufficient quality to satisfy customer requirements. Mr. Horween also

indicated that the use of the HVLP spray guns would cause the specialty leather to become a

different product which customers would not purchase. Tr. at 66-69. Mr. Beckstead conceded

that the spray technology recommended by the Agency for testing by Horween currently did not

meet the criteria for HVLP spray guns listed in 211.2990 but that the manufacturer would like to

have it classified as such. Tr. at 63-65.

Based upon the evidence presented, the Board finds that HVLP spray guns are not

technically feasible for the specific Horween Company production of specialty leather allowed

by this site-specific rulemaking. As the Agency’s suggested amendment fails to meet the RACT

criteria for technological and economic feasibility contained within 35 Ill. Adm. Code 211.5370,

the Board has removed the corresponding language at Section 218.929(c)(4) from the proposed

THE REQUIREMENT TO RECORD AND REPORT VOM CONTENT AND GALLONS

OF ALL COATINGS BY CATEGORY AND BY BATCH

The current record keeping requirements for application of coatings to specialty leather

require VOM emissions to be tracked by category of leather produced. 35 Ill. Adm. Code

218.926(b)(2)(B). Equivalent alternative control plans may be used if approved by the Agency

and USEPA in a federally enforceable permit or as a SIP revision. 35 Ill. Adm. Code

218.926(c). Horween’s current specialty leather production does use an alternative plan. The

alternative plan was submitted in 1996 and approved by the Agency and USEPA. Tr. at 34.

Horween proposes to continue its alternative record keeping practices in this manner for

the new categories of leather proposed in this rulemaking. Tr. at 24-25. Horween proposes to

record the total amount of VOM-containing material “used in a month and divide it amongst the

production of standard leather.” Tr. at 75. Using a percentage based on the square footage of

each category of leather produced in that month, the VOM emissions produced from each

category are estimated. Tr. at 75.

The Agency proposed specific language which would require Horween instead to report

and record VOM content, gallons, and pounds of coatings by each batch of leather

during each month. The Agency did so based on USEPA’s indication that in light of the

additional categories of leathers, dress or performance water-resistant, dress or performance non-

water-resistant, cementable water-resistant, and cementable non-water-resistant, that the current

procedures were not adequate to verify compliance. Horween objects to the Agency’s proposed

record keeping and reporting requirements, arguing that the existing system which Horween uses

is adequate and has been accepted by both the Agency and USEPA. Horween argues that under

the Agency’s proposal there would be a substantial modification to the record keeping and

reporting procedures that it already follows. Tr. at 33, 37, 60, 61.

Further, Horween maintains that a substantial increase in record keeping would be

required by a batch recording system for a relatively limited amount of VOM compounds and

maximum actual emissions for those compounds per year. Tr. at 73, 79-80. Horween points out

that only two compounds are used on multiple types of leathers manufactured at the facility,

eukesolar dyes and unithane 9107. Tr. at 79-80.

By allowing modification of the finish formulation in this rulemaking, the ability of

Agency and USEPA field inspectors to verify Horween’s monthly estimates of all VOM

containing materials used for each of the new categories of specialty leather becomes of

increasing importance. The Agency’s suggest record keeping requirements “by batch” would

assist in this effort. To the extent that other means may be used to reach this goal of

demonstrating compliance, the Agency’s suggested wording at 218.929(d)(3) provides Horween

the opportunity to propose alternative record keeping procedures to the Agency and USEPA for

approval. Tr. at 60. This is consistent with the Board’s current specialty leather provisions

where the Board has designated that alternative plans are to be approved by the

USEPA. 35 Ill. Adm. Code 218.926(c).

The Board finds that the Agency’s request to record and report VOM content and gallons

of all coatings by category and by batch are acceptable and will be included.

ECONOMIC IMPACT

The impetus for the Horween proposal is that the adoption of the amendments would

have a beneficial economic impact by allowing them to compete in additional specialty leather

markets. Horween has experienced a significant loss in revenue over the last ten years from

sales of $32 million to $20 million. Tr. at 124-25. They have decreased employment from

almost 200 employees in 1992 to about 140 employees at present. Tr. at 125. The anticipated

increase in sales associated with production of specialty leathers permitted by this site-specific

rule is $2 to $2.5 million per year. Tr. at 125.

Based on the record, the Board finds that adoption of the following amendments, as

requested by Horween and largely agreed to by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, is

appropriate. The Board proposes this rulemaking for second-notice review by the Joint

Committee on Administrative Review.

The Board directs that the following rule be filed with the Joint Committee on

Administrative Rules for its second-notice review.

TITLE 35: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

SUBTITLE B: AIR POLLUTION

CHAPTER I: POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

SUBCHAPTER c: EMISSIONS STANDARDS AND

LIMITATIONS FOR STATIONARY SOURCES

ORGANIC MATERIAL EMISSION STANDARDS AND

LIMITATIONS FOR THE CHICAGO AREA

SUBPART A: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Abbreviations and Conversion Factors

Test Methods and Procedures

Compliance Dates

Operation of Afterburners

Exemptions, Variations, and Alternative Means of Control or Compliance

Vapor Pressure of Volatile Organic Liquids

Vapor Pressure of Organic Material or Solvent

Vapor Pressure of Volatile Organic Material

Incorporations by Reference

Monitoring for Negligibly-Reactive Compounds

Compliance with Permit Conditions

SUBPART B: ORGANIC EMISSIONS FROM STORAGE AND LOADING

Applicability for VOL

Control Requirements for Storage Containers of VOL

Storage Containers of VPL

Loading Operations

Petroleum Liquid Storage Tanks

External Floating Roofs

Compliance Dates

Compliance Plan (Repealed)

Testing VOL Operations

Monitoring VOL Operations

Recordkeeping and Reporting for VOL Operations

SUBPART C: ORGANIC EMISSIONS FROM MISCELLANEOUS

Separation Operations

Pumps and Compressors

Safety Relief Valves

SUBPART E: SOLVENT CLEANING

Solvent Cleaning in General

Open Top Vapor Degreasing

Conveyorized Degreasing

Compliance Schedule (Repealed)

SUBPART F: COATING OPERATIONS

Emission Limitations

Daily-Weighted Average Limitations

Solids Basis Calculation

Alternative Emission Limitations

Exemptions from Emission Limitations

Exemption from General Rule on Use of Organic Material

Compliance Schedule

Recordkeeping and Reporting

Cross-Line Averaging to Establish Compliance for Coating Lines

Recordkeeping and Reporting for Cross-Line Averaging Participating Coating

Changing Compliance Methods

Wood Furniture Coating Averaging Approach

Wood Furniture Coating Add-On Control Use

Wood Furniture Coating Work Practice Standards

SUBPART G: USE OF ORGANIC MATERIAL

Use of Organic Material

Alternative Standard

Fuel Combustion Emission Units

Operations with Compliance Program

SUBPART H: PRINTING AND PUBLISHING

Flexographic and Rotogravure Printing

Compliance Schedule

Recordkeeping and Reporting

Lithographic Printing: Applicability

Provisions Applying to Heatset Web Offset Lithographic Printing Prior to March

Emission Limitations and Control Requirements for Lithographic Printing Lines

On and After March 15, 1996

Compliance Schedule for Lithographic Printing On and After March 15, 1996

Testing for Lithographic Printing On and After March 15, 1996

Monitoring Requirements for Lithographic Printing

Recordkeeping and Reporting for Lithographic Printing

SUBPART Q: SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMICAL AND POLYMER

MANUFACTURING PLANT

General Requirements

Inspection Program Plan for Leaks

Inspection Program for Leaks

Repairing Leaks

Recordkeeping for Leaks

Report for Leaks

Alternative Program for Leaks

Open-Ended Valves

Standards for Control Devices

Compliance Date (Repealed)

Control Requirements

Performance and Testing Requirements

Monitoring Requirements

Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements

Compliance Date

SUBPART R: PETROLEUM REFINING AND RELATED INDUSTRIES;

ASPHALT MATERIALS

Petroleum Refinery Waste Gas Disposal

Vacuum Producing Systems

Wastewater (Oil/Water) Separator

Process Unit Turnarounds

Leaks: General Requirements

Monitoring Program Plan for Leaks

Monitoring Program for Leaks

Recordkeeping for Leaks

Reporting for Leaks

Alternative Program for Leaks

Sealing Device Requirements

Compliance Schedule for Leaks

Compliance Dates (Repealed)

SUBPART S: RUBBER AND MISCELLANEOUS PLASTIC PRODUCTS

Manufacture of Pneumatic Rubber Tires

Green Tire Spraying Operations

Alternative Emission Reduction Systems

Emission Testing

Compliance Dates (Repealed)

Compliance Plan (Repealed)

SUBPART T: PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING

Control of Reactors, Distillation Units, Crystallizers, Centrifuges and Vacuum

Control of Air Dryers, Production Equipment Exhaust Systems and Filters

Material Storage and Transfer

In-Process Tanks

Other Emission Units

Monitoring for Air Pollution Control Equipment

Recordkeeping for Air Pollution Control Equipment

SUBPART V: BATCH OPERATIONS AND AIR OXIDATION PROCESSES

Applicability for Batch Operations

Control Requirements for Batch Operations

Determination of Uncontrolled Total Annual Mass Emissions and Average Flow

Rate Values for Batch Operations

Performance and Testing Requirements for Batch Operations

Monitoring Requirements for Batch Operations

Reporting and Recordkeeping for Batch Operations

Compliance Date

Emission Limitations for Air Oxidation Processes

Definitions (Repealed)

Determination of Applicability

Emission Limitations for Air Oxidation Processes

Testing and Monitoring

Compliance Date (Repealed)

SUBPART W: AGRICULTURE

Pesticide Exception

SUBPART X: CONSTRUCTION

Architectural Coatings

Paving Operations

Cutback Asphalt

SUBPART Y: GASOLINE DISTRIBUTION

Bulk Gasoline Plants

Bulk Gasoline Terminals

Gasoline Dispensing Operations - Storage Tank Filling Operations

Gasoline Delivery Vessels

Gasoline Volatility Standards

Gasoline Dispensing Operations - Motor Vehicle Fueling Operations

SUBPART Z: DRY CLEANERS

Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaners

Compliance Dates (Repealed)

Compliance Plan (Repealed)

Exception to Compliance Plan (Repealed)

Standards for Petroleum Solvent Dry Cleaners

Operating Practices for Petroleum Solvent Dry Cleaners

Program for Inspection and Repair of Leaks

Testing and Monitoring

Applicability for Petroleum Solvent Dry Cleaners

Compliance Dates (Repealed)

Compliance Plan (Repealed)

SUBPART AA: PAINT AND INK MANUFACTURING

Exemption for Waterbase Material and Heatset Offset Ink

Permit Conditions (Repealed)

Open Top Mills, Tanks, Vats or Vessels

Compliance Schedule

Recordkeeping and Reporting

SUBPART BB: POLYSTYRENE PLANTS

Emissions Limitation at Polystyrene Plants

Emissions Testing

SUBPART CC: POLYESTER RESIN PRODUCT MANUFACTURING

Control Requirements

Compliance Schedule

Recordkeeping and Reporting for Exempt Emission Units

Recordkeeping and Reporting for Subject Emission Units

SUBPART DD: AEROSOL CAN FILLING

Control Requirements

Recordkeeping and Reporting for Exempt Emission Units

Recordkeeping and Reporting for Subject Emission Units

SUBPART FF: BAKERY OVENS (REPEALED)

Applicability (Repealed)

Control Requirements (Repealed)

Testing (Repealed)

Monitoring (Repealed)

Recordkeeping and Reporting (Repealed)

Compliance Date (Repealed)

Certification (Repealed)

SUBPART GG: MARINE TERMINALS

Control Requirements

Compliance Certification

Testing and Monitoring

Recordkeeping and Reporting

SUBPART HH: MOTOR VEHICLE REFINISHING

Emission Limitations

Alternative Control Requirements

Equipment Specifications

Surface Preparation Materials

Monitoring and Recordkeeping for Control Devices

General Recordkeeping and Reporting

Compliance Date

Applicability of Subpart BB (Renumbered)

Emissions Limitation at Polystyrene Plants (Renumbered)

Compliance Date (Repealed)

Compliance Plan (Repealed)

Special Requirements for Compliance Plan (Repealed)

Emissions Testing (Renumbered)

SUBPART PP: MISCELLANEOUS FABRICATED PRODUCT

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

Permit Conditions (Repealed)

Control Requirements

Compliance Schedule

Cementable and Dress or Performance Shoe Leather

SUBPART QQ: MISCELLANEOUS FORMULATION MANUFACTURING

Permit Conditions (Repealed)

Control Requirements

Compliance Schedule

SUBPART RR: MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIC CHEMICAL

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

Permit Conditions (Repealed)

Control Requirements

Compliance Schedule

SUBPART TT: OTHER EMISSION UNITS

Permit Conditions (Repealed)

Control Requirements

Compliance Schedule

SUBPART UU: RECORDKEEPING AND REPORTING

Exempt Emission Units

Subject Emission Units

Section 218.Appendix A:

List of Chemicals Defining Synthetic Organic Chemical and

Polymer Manufacturing

Section 218.Appendix B:

VOM Measurement Techniques for Capture Efficiency

Section 218.Appendix C:

Reference Methods and Procedures

Section 218.Appendix D:

Coefficients for the Total Resource Effectiveness Index (TRE)

Section 218.Appendix E:

List of Affected Marine Terminals

Section 218.Appendix G:

TRE Index Measurements for SOCMI Reactors and Distillation

Section 218.Appendix H:

Baseline VOM Content Limitations for Subpart F, Section 218.212

Cross-Line Averaging

AUTHORITY: Implementing Section 10 and authorized by Section 28.5 of the Environmental

Protection Act [415 ILCS 5/10 and 28.5].

SOURCE: Adopted at R91-7 at 15 Ill. Reg. 12231, effective August 16, 1991; amended in R91-

24 at 16 Ill. Reg. 13564, effective August 24, 1992; amended in R91-28 and R91-30 at 16 Ill.

Reg. 13864, effective August 24, 1992; amended in R93-9 at 17 Ill. Reg. 16636, effective

September 27, 1993; amended in R93-14 at 18 Ill. Reg. at 1945, effective January 24, 1994;

amended in R94-12 at 18 Ill. Reg. at 14973, effective September 21, 1994; amended in R94-15

at 18 Ill. Reg. 16392, effective October 25, 1994; amended in R94-16 at 18 Ill. Reg. 16950,

effective November 15, 1994; amended in R94-21, R94-31 and R94-32 at 19 Ill. Reg. 6848,

effective May 9, 1995; amended in R94-33 at 19 Ill. Reg. 7359, effective May 22, 1995;

amended in R96-13 at 20 Ill. Reg. 14428, effective October 17, 1996; amended in R97-24 at 21

Ill. Reg. 7708, effective June 9, 1997; amended in R97-31 at 22 Ill. Reg. 3556, effective

February 2, 1998; amended in R98-16 at 22 Ill. Reg. 14282, effective July 16, 1998; amended in

R02-20, at_______Ill. Reg____, effective_______.

BOARD NOTE: This Part implements the Environmental Protection Act as of July 1, 1994.

Section 218.112 Incorporations by Reference

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Section 218.929

Cementable and Dress or Performance Shoe Leathers

The rule requirements of this Section apply to a leather manufacturing facility

located at 2015 North Elston Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The VOM emission

limits set forth in this Section shall only apply to the following types of select

grade of chrome tanned, bark/polymer retanned specialty leathers:

Cementable Shoe Leather is leather which is:

Hot stuffed without the presence of water, fat liquored or wet

stuffed by direct contact with wax, grease, polymers and oils in

liquefied form at elevated temperatures. The content of wax,

grease, polymers and oils embedded into the leather shall be over

12 percent but less than 25 percent by weight, measured on a dry

weight basis. Applicable leathers shall be determined using the

equation below:

P = percent content of wax, grease, polymer, and oils

W = weight of wax, grease, polymers and oils in pounds added to

L = dry weight of the leather in pounds before addition of wax,

greases, polymers and oils.

Finished with coating materials which adhere to the leather surface

that feels oily; and

Used primarily for manufacture of shoes and cannot meet the

definition for specialty leather pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code

Section 211.6170.

Dress or Performance Shoe Leather is leather which is:

Finished with coating materials containing water emulsified

materials using water miscible solvent materials to protect the

leather and pigmented coating; and

Used primarily for manufacture of sewn shoes where the leather

must be capable of soaking with a fine, dressy finish that cannot

meet the lbs. per gallon VOM limitations set forth in Section

218.926 of this Subpart and cannot meet the definition for

specialty leather pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code Section 211.6170.

The requirements of this Section do not apply to the production of those

specialty leathers that meet the definition of specialty leathers pursuant to

35 Ill. Adm. Code 211.6170 or to the production of leathers that can meet

the control requirements of Section 218.926 of this Subpart.

The 10-ton exemption for stain pursuant to Section 218.926(b)(2)(i) of

this Subpart does not apply to leathers produced pursuant to the

requirements of this Section.

The production of specialty leather as defined in subsection (a) of this Section is

subject to the following limitations:

For both water resistant and non-water resistant leathers, the leather will

be designated as water resistant or non-water resistant in the shipping

room by using ASTM D 2099-00, as incorporated by reference in Section

218.112 of this Part.

For non-water resistant leathers, the total VOM emissions shall not exceed

14.0 lbs VOM/1,000 square feet of leather produced on a 12-month rolling

For water resistant leathers, the total VOM emissions shall not exceed

24.0 lbs VOM/1,000 square feet of leather produced on a 12-month

rolling average basis.

The total emissions of VOM from leathers produced pursuant to the

emission limits in this Section shall not exceed 20 tons per year.

The owner or operator shall comply with their approved standard operating and

maintenance procedures (SOMP). The SOMP will contain the following

A procedure to minimize the volatilization of solvents during the

measuring of coating proportions and/or mixing of coatings.

A procedure to minimize VOM fugitive losses from the coating and

solvent storage rooms. Procedures should include methods of securely

sealing containers and methods to clean up accidental spills.

A procedure to minimize solvent usage or VOM losses during equipment

cleanup and during transport (including the transferring of coatings from

the mixing areas to the coating lines).

Owner or operator shall perform the reporting and record keeping consistent with

the requirements of Section 218.929 of this Subpart and Section 39.5 of the Act

(415 ILCS 5/39.5), and shall include at a minimum the following:

The VOM content and gallons of each coating and the total pounds of

VOM of all coatings applied to each category of leather, e.g., cementable

non-water resistant, dress water resistant, by batch during each month; and

The total area of each category of leather produced during the month

based on the number of items produced and the area of such items,

measured or established in accordance with procedures set forth in a

federally enforceable permit.

3) Notwithstanding the requirements of subsections (d)(1) and (d)(2) of this

Section, the owner or operator may comply with an equivalent alternative plan

for reporting and record keeping that has been approved by the Agency and

the USEPA in a federally enforceable permit or as a SIP revision

(Source: Amended at___________, effective_____________)

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the Board

adopted the above opinion and order on December 5, 2002, by a vote of 6-0.

Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board