July
    18,
    1974
    ACME
    BARREL
    COMPANY,
    Petitioner,
    ‘Is
    PCB
    74—141
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
    AGENCY,
    Respondent
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by
    Mr.
    Seaman):
    This Petition for Variance was filed with the Board
    On
    April
    22,
    1974.
    On
    April
    25, 1974, the Board ordered Petitioner
    to submit additional
    information.
    Said additional
    information was
    filed with the Board
    on May 14,
    1974.
    Petitioner operates
    a facility in Chicago which reclaims and
    reconditions steel
    barrels.
    Included in Pet1tioner~soperations are
    paint spray
    units
    and curing ovens, which are the subject of the
    Petition for Variance.
    Petitioner
    is seeking
    a variance from Rule 2O5(f~of the
    Mr
    Pollution Control
    Regulations for an indeterminate period of time
    in order to emit photochemically reactive hydrocarbons
    in excess of
    the prescribed standard.
    Rule 205(f)
    limits emissions of photochemically reactive hy-
    drocarbons
    to 8
    lbs/hr.
    Petitioner contends that
    it
    would be able
    to comply with the regulation
    if it could obtain an adequate supply
    of
    exempt solvents.
    Petitioner alleges that due to durrent shortages~
    it is only able to obtain 80-85
    of
    its needs,
    Petitioner estimates that the emission rate from its spray booth
    when using non-exempt solvents
    is
    94 lbs/hr.
    Agency surveillance personnel
    estimate the emission rate to be 190 lbs/hr.
    Petitioner plans
    to achieve compliance as soon as
    it is possible
    to obtain 100
    of
    its needs.
    In the meantime, Petitioner states
    that it will make every effort to assure that only one paint station
    at
    a time will
    use non-exempt solvents,
    Petitioner states that to date
    it has been unable
    to successfully use water base paints
    in
    its process.
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    Petitioner’s facility has been the subject of a prior Board
    Order.
    In PCB 72-404, the Board found Petitioner to be causing
    an odor nuisance.
    Petitioner
    is currently taking necessary steps
    to eliminat~the odor problem.
    Citizens contacted by Agency personnel
    indicate that whereas the odor has not been totally eliminated, much
    progress has been made.
    The Agency is
    in agreement with Petitioner that denial
    of the
    variance would cause
    a hardship.
    The Board
    is aware of the current
    nationwide shortage of non-photochemically reactive solvents and
    notes that Petitioner is not unique in its inability to obtain such
    solvents~. The variance will be granted; but not, of course,
    for the
    indefinite period requested.
    The six-month period recommended by the
    Agency appears adequate to meet Petitioner’s problem.
    This Opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions of
    law of the Board.
    IT IS THE ORDER of the Pollution Control Board that Petitioner be
    granted
    a variance from the provisions of Rule 205(.f) of the Air
    Pollution Regulations for
    a period of six months from the date of this
    Order,
    subject to the following conditions:
    a.
    Comencing 30 days from the date of this Order, Petitioner
    shall submit monthly progress reports
    to the Agency detailing:
    1.
    total amount of solvents used during the month;
    2.
    nature and amount of non-exempt solvents used;
    3.
    nature and amount of exempt solvents used;
    4.
    nature and amount of exempt solvents
    purchased
    (indicating the supplier);
    5.
    nature and amount of non-exempt solvents purchased
    (indicating the supplier);
    6.
    nature and amount of solvents in inventory at the
    beginning of each month.
    Said reports shall
    be sent to:
    Environmental
    Protection Agency
    Division of Air Pollution Control
    Control
    Program Coordinator
    2200 Churchill Road
    Springfield, Illinois
    62706
    b.
    Petitioner shall utilize
    as much exempt solvent formulations
    as
    can be furnished by its suppliers.
    c.
    Within one hundred and eighty days of the date of this Order,
    Petitioner shall submit
    a compliance plan to the Agency.
    This plan may:
    1.
    Achieve compliance at the expiration of the Variance
    by replacement
    of photochemically reactive solvents
    with non-reactive solvents demonstrated to
    be
    readily available; or
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    2.
    Achieve compliance ~tthe expiration of the
    Variance by qualification under the Alternative
    Standard of Rule 205(f)(l); or
    3.
    Achieve compliance by May 30, 1975 under the
    provisions of Rule 205(f)(2)(D).
    I,
    Christan
    L. ~bffett,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board
    tertify that the abov
    Opinion and Order was adopted on this
    ___________
    day of
    ,
    1974 by
    a vote of
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