ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    May 22, 1975
    MOBIL JOLIET REFINING CORPORATION,
    )
    Petitioner,
    V.
    )
    PCB 73—402
    )
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    MR. JOSEPH E. COSTI~ZA,attorney for Petitioner;
    MR. LEE A. CAMPBELL, attorney for Respox~dent.
    ORDER OF
    THE
    BOARD
    (by Dr.
    Odell)
    On September 25,
    1973, Mobil Joliet Refining Corporation
    filed with the Illinois Pollution Control Board
    (Board)
    a
    Petition for Variance for a period of one year from Rule 203(d)
    of Chapter
    2, Air Pollution Regulations and/or Rule 3-3.111 of
    the Rules and Regulations Governing the Control of Air Pollution.
    The Board requested more information on September 26, 1973, and
    an Addendum to Petition for Variance was received by the Board
    on October
    30,
    1973.
    A Petition For Intervention was filed by Mobil Oil
    Corporation on October 30, 1973.
    The Petition is denied.
    Board
    action in this case makes clear that Mobile Oil is not prejudic-
    ed by this decision.
    Petitioner owns a petroleum refinery for processing crude
    oil into gasoline in Channahon Township, Will County, Illinois.
    Petitioner’s facilities include a fluid catalytic cracking unit
    (FCCV) which is the subject of this Petition for Variance.
    The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency) filed
    a Recommendation with the Board on December
    5,
    1973.
    Copies of
    letters from Petitioner
    to the Agency, which were received by the
    Board on December 21, 1973 and July 12, 1974, suggested that this
    facility may be in compliance and a variance may not be needed.
    On May 14, 1975,
    the Board received a Petition from Mobil
    Joliet Refining Corporation which “requests that its Petition for
    Variance
    .
    .
    .
    be withdrawn.”
    The Board hereby grants Petitioner’s motion to withdraw and
    dismisses without prejudice this Petition for Variance.
    IT IS
    SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, here~ycertify that the above Opinion and Order was adopted
    on the~~~day of May,
    1975, by a vote of
    ~‘—c~
    Chriitan L. Moffe ,*~4.~t1erk
    Illinois Pol1utio*~ontrolBoard
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