ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
March 21, 1974
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MOBIL OIL CORPORATION
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PCB 73-563
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by Mr. Dumelle):
Mobil Oil Corporation (Mobil
Oil) filed two petitions
on December 28, 1973 for variances from Rules
205(a) (2) (A) and
Rule
205(b) (1)
of the Air Pollution Regulations
(Air Regulations).
On January
3,
1974
the Board consolidated the two variance requests.
The Agency filed
a Recommendation
to Grant the Variances on
February
8,
1974.
No hearing •was held.
Mobil
Oil operates an oil bulk terminal located
in North
Pekin, Tazewell County,
Illinois.
This facility has five storage
tanks
and a drop-arm-type truck loading rack.
Annual through-put
in this facility is
20.3 million gallons of gasoline and 9.0
million gallons
of fuel oil per year.
Mobil seeks
a variance
from Rule
205(b) (1) of the Air Regulations for its truck
loading
rack to October
31, 1974 in order to complete modifications
to
allow the use
of submerged pipe filling on the truck loading
rack.
Mobil
also seeks variance from Rule 205(a) (2) (A)
of the
Air Regulations
for the three storage tanks with storage capacity
greater than 40,000 gallons until October
31, 1974
in order
to
allow it
to
install and make operational
a floating roof.
The
compliance date
for both these rules was December 31,
1973.
Mobil
alleges that
the reason for the delay in compliance
was due
to the potentially high cost of complying with Rule
205
before
the Pollution Control Board modified Rule
205(b) (1) on
December 20,
1973 pursuant to the request by the Illinois Petro-
leum Council, R73-6 which was filed on March
29,
1973.
The Board
on December 20,
1973 adopted the proposed modification to Rule
205(b) (1) which accepted submerged pipe loading
as
an alternative
to vapor recovery systems.
Mobil alleges
that it would have closed
or divested itself of
the facility rather than to spend the funds
necessary to comply with Rule
205(b) (1)
as
it originally existed.
Mobil further alleges
that to require compliance by December 31,
1973 would have required the closing of the
facility and thus
would have constituted an arbitrary and unreasonable hardship.
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The Agency agrees that Mobil
is entitled to
a variance
and that Mobil’s compliance schedule showing compliance by
October 31,
1974 is reasonable.
While Mobil has not alleged any data as to the environmental
impact that these continued emissions would have,
the Agency
has calculated the hydrocarbon emission rate from the storage
tanks
to be approximately 67 lbs. per hour and
is unable to
calculate
the emission rate from the tank truck loading
facility.
The Agency has stated that Mobil’s compliance system
will result in compliance with bpth rules.
This Opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of
fact and
conclusions .of law.
ORDER
Mobil Oil
is hereby granted a variance from Rules
205(a)
(2)(A)
and 205(b) (1) of the Air Regulations until October
31,
1974 for its three storage tanks
and loading facility subject
to the following conditions:
1.
Mobil shall submit progress reports to the Division of
Air Pollution Control,
Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency, beginning one month after the date
of this Order,
continuing thereafter quarterly;and
2.
Mobil
shall post
a Performance Bond in the amount of
$10,000 by April
30,
l974.guaranteeing installation of the
floating roofs
and submerged pipe system as specified in this
proceeding.
IT
IS SO ORDERED.
I, Christan L.
Moffett, Clerk
of the Illinois Pollution Control
Boar~d, hereby certify the above Opinion and Order were adopted on the
~‘f~’-
day of March,
1974 by a vote of
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Christan L. Moffett, Cl~’fk
Illinois Pollution Control Boar~
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