ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

June 13, 1974

NATIONAL BY-PRODUCTS, INC.

Petitioner,

vs.

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PCB 73—208

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by Mr. Henss):

On March 14, 1974 National By-Products, Inc. was granted

a variance from Section 9(a) of the Environmental Protection

Act and Rule 802(b) of the Air Pollution Control Regulations

for its Decatur rendering plant until August 15, 1974 for

the purpose of constructing a cover over its hotwell and

evaluating the odor reduction effects of such cover. The

variance was made subject to certain conditions including

in Paragraph 2 the following:

~The installation of the hotwell cover and sub-

sequent routing of all.noncomhustible gasses from

the hotwell to the plant boiler shall be completed

not later than June 1, 1974”.

The Company now reports that because of unusually heavy

rain the plant was flooded for the first time in thirty years

and it is estimated that it

will

be thirty days before the

plant can be put back into operation. The Company requests a

thirty day extension for completion of Item 2 of the Board Order

so that the hotwell cover program will he completed by July 1,

1974

rather than the original June 1, 1974.

This matter

was

originally docketed as a new variance

petition but upon reconsideration the Board chooses to consider

it a motion ~uhsequent to entry of final order, The reason for

this is

that

the motion could be allowed without extending the

variance which was originally granted to August 15, 1974. The

Board specifically extends the time within which any party may

file a motion for rehearing or modification of the Order to and

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including the date when Petitioner’s reauest was filed.

Agency response shall he filed within 10 days of the date

of this Order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan L~ Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois

Pollution Contçol

Board, hereby certify the above Order was adopted this

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