CLLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
July 31,
1975
FIRESTONE TIRE
AND
RUBBER COMPANY,
Petitioner,
v.
)
PCB 75—227
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
Respondent.
OPINION
AND
ORDER OF THE
BOARD
(by Dr. Odell)
On June
2, 1975, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
(Firestone)
filed a Petition for Variance with the Illinois Pol-
lution Controi E~oard (Board).
Firestone requested
a Variance
from Rule 204
(C)
(2)
(A) of Chapter
2, Air Pollution Regulations,
for one year to allow the use of approximately 820,000 gallons of
No.
6 fuel oil with
a maximum sulfur content of 1.8
by weight,
in order to consume existing supplies on hand as of May 30,
1975.
This oil
is standby fuel for three boilers located at the Fire-
stone plant in D’3catur, Illinois, which provide building heat
and process steam for tire manufacturing operations.
The three
boilers involved
(Nos.
4,
5, and
6)
in this Petition for Variance
are fired with natural gas from Illinois Power Company as a
primary fuel and residual oil as
a standby fuel for use during
periods of natural gas interruption.
There is no discharge con-
trol equipment on these boilers.
On June
6,
1975, the Board requested more information
concerning the a~nbientair quality in the area affected by Peti—
tioner’s faci1it~. This information is needed by the Board
in
order to evaluat~?air quality in relation to the United States
Supreme Court decision, Train v. Natural Resources Defense Council,
43 LW 4467
(April 15, 1975).
Firestone was given thirty
(30) days
to supply the needed air quality information to the Board or
subject its Petition for Variance to dismissal for inadequacy.
Firestone has not submitted the requested air quality
information to the Board.
Therefore,
It Is The Order.of the
Illinois Pollution Control Board that the instant Petition for
Variance is hereby dismissed for inadequacy.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board, hereby c’?rt~
that the above Opinion and Order was
adopted on the
day of July,
1975, by a vote of
~
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18—274
Illinois Pollutio
ntrol Board