ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
August
28,
1975
CENTRAL
ILLINOIS PUBLiC SERVICE COMPANY,
Petitioner,
vs.
)
PCB 75—325
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by Mr. Henss):
Petitioner requests a six months variance to operate
Unit No.
3 at its Meredosia Power Station at maximum load
conditions which may exceed the Illinois standard for
particulate emissions and to operate
all its units
at
Meredosia though such operation may result in sulfur dioxide
omissions in excess of existing Rule 204(e) of the Illinois
Air Pollution Control Regulations.
The Petition does not
furnish the information which will be necessary for com-
pliance with the recent United States Supreme Court decision,
Train, Administrator etc.
vs. Natural Resources Defense
~:ouncil (No.
73--l742).
Under that decision it will be
necessary
to establish that the variance does not interfere
with the attainme~itand subsequent maintenance of national
ambient air quality standards.
The Petition does not allege
any facts from which the Board could draw such
a conclusion.
Petitioner
is ordered to amend the Petition within 45 days
of this Order supplying the missing information.
Petitioner
shall also file
a written statement which provides that the
90 day period for deciding this variance petition will commence
with the filing of the additional information or the filing of
an amended petition for variance.
If Petitioner does not
comply with this Order the petition for variance will be
dismissed for inadequacy.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Christan L. Moffett,
Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Co trol
Board,
oreby certify the above Order was adopted the
_________
day of
___________,
1975 by a vote of
3—O
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j.
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Christan L. Moffett,
er~
fi
Illinois Pollution Control roar
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