ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September 12, 1974
    ILLINI ~OftILtIITYHOSPITAL,
    Petitioner,
    )
    PC8
    74—128
    ENVI RONIENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    S
    Respondent.
    I
    OPINION
    AND ORDER OF
    THE
    BOARD (by Mr. Seaman):
    On April 3, 1974, Illini Ccwiunity Hospital filed
    its
    Petition
    For Variance, seeking therein permission to continue operation of
    its non-approved incinerator until said incinerator can ~e
    replaced
    by a unit approved by the Agency. Specifically, relief is sought
    from
    Illinois Pollution Control
    Board
    Regulations, Chapter 2, Part I,
    Rule 103(b) and Illinois Pollution Control Board Regulations, Chapter
    2, Part II,
    Rule
    2O3(e)(3).
    Petitioner is a not-for-profit Illinois Corporation with total
    revenues in fiscal year 1973 of 1.7 million dollars ($1,700,000).
    Petitioner operates a hospital in Pittsfield, Pike County, Illinois.
    The subject of the Petition for Variance is a single chamber unfired
    incinerator vented to a boiler stack fifty feet
    (SOS)
    high. Petitioner
    processes in this incinerator approximately 500 pounds of waste
    daily.
    Rule 203(e)(3) limits Petitioner5s incinerator to maximum allowable
    emissions of 0.2 grains per standard cubic foot of effluent gases
    at 1.3 grains per standard cubic foot. The emissions to be expected
    from the burning of Petitioner5s wastes in an unfired incinerator are:
    Particulates
    35 lb/ton
    Carbon Monoxide
    300 lb/ton
    Hydrocarbons
    100 lb/ton
    Nitrogen Oxides
    I lb/ton
    Sulfur Oxides
    negligible
    Petitioner burns about 500 pounds per day and therefore
    the anticipated emissions
    would be:
    Particulates
    8.75 lb/day
    Carbon Monoxide
    75.00 lb/day
    Hydrocarbons
    25.00 lb/day
    Nitrogen Oxides
    .25 lb/day
    Sulfur Oxides
    negligible
    13-577
    Petitioner~s proposed compliance plan contemplates the installation
    of a Federal Enterprises Model FE-3 double burner incinerator. The
    Agency is convinced that this incinerator can meet applicable regu-
    lations for types 0, 1 or 2 wastes if waste consumption is limited
    to 140 pounds per hour and the primary and secondary burners heat
    input is rated at 350,000 BTU for both secondary burners. Petitioner’s
    timetable is:
    Order New Incinerator
    7-1-74
    Delivery
    11-1-74
    Operable by
    1—1-75
    Acting promptly upon the suggestion of an Agency representative,
    Petitioner has investigated the alternative of hauling away refuse
    until the new incinerator is installed and operativve. The cost of
    hauling refuse would be ~60.00per month. Based on a three-month period
    to replace the
    existing incinerator
    with a suitable substitute, the
    total
    projected expense of hauling would be approximately $180.00.
    Our Order will allow Petitioner to operate the subject incinerator
    until October 1, 1974 in order to allow Petitioner sufficient time to
    arrange for its refuse to be hauled to an approved landfill site. The
    cost to Petitioner will be minimal compared to adverse affect that
    continued violative emissions would have
    Ofl
    the community.
    This Opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions of
    law of the Board.
    IT IS THE ORDER of the Pollution Control Board that Illini Community
    Hospital be granted a variance from the provisions of Rule 203(e)(3)
    until October l, 1974 to allow the continued operation of the subject
    incinerator until that date, subject to the following conditions:
    I.
    Petitioner shall arrange to have its wastes hauled to an approved
    landfill site until such time as the new incinerator is operational.
    2. Petitioner shall submit monthly progress reports to the
    Agency at the following address:
    Environmental Protection Agency
    Division of Mr Pollution Control
    Variance Section
    2200 Churchill Road
    Springfield, Illinois 62706
    3. Petitioner shall submit Construction and Operating Permit
    Applications to the Agency as required by the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board Regulations.
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    578
    I, Christan L ~ffett.Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, certify that the above Opinion and Order was adopted on this
    ~
    day ~
    1974 by a vote of
    13—579

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