ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June
    21,
    1973
    BUNGE CORPORATION,
    Petitioner,
    vs.
    )
    PCB 73—130
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    Alex Saliba,
    Jr. for the Petitioner
    Thomas A.
    Cengel, Assistant Attorney General for the EPA
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Henss)
    Petitioner operates a grain elevator in East Hannibal,
    Pike County,
    Illinois.
    The facility includes a dump pit, dryer,
    elevator legs and a barge loading station.
    Petitioner requests
    a variance until September 15, 1973 to bring its truck dump,
    receiving and shipping legs,
    and transfer conveyors into com-
    pliance with the Regulation controlling fugitive dust emissions
    and a variance until June 1,
    1974
    to bring its grain dryer into
    compliance.
    It is stated that failure to obtain additional
    time may result in
    a loss of employment for persons working at
    the elevator and a loss to area farmers of an active marketing
    facility.
    The elevator in 1971 shipped more than
    3 million
    bushels of grain, .representing production of over 60,000 acres
    cf nearby farmland.
    Petitioner is installing
    a system to control emissions from
    the truck
    dump,
    receiving and shipping legs and the transfer
    conveyor which will be operational in
    late September 1973.
    Bunge’s study of its grain dryer problem indicates that control
    equipment for this facility could not be operational prior to
    June
    1,
    1974.
    Petitioner might decide to install a new dryer
    replacing the existing dryer as
    a part of its control program.
    The grain elevator is in a remote area with the nearest
    resident living
    approximately 1/4 mile away.
    We believe that Petitioner’s request is reasonable.
    We
    would grant the variance, but action taken in
    R72-lB
    subsequent
    tc the filing of the Bunge request, makes the grant
    f a variance
    unnecessary.
    On June
    15, 1973 in R72-l8 this Board approved an
    amendment to the Air Pollution Control Regulations extending the
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    deadlines for obtaining operating permits and for compliance
    with the emission regulations.
    Under the recent amendment
    a grain handling and conditioning operation must obtain an
    operating permit by September
    1,
    1974 and comply with the
    emission regulation by May 30,
    197.5.
    If Bunge follows the program outlined to us these
    deadlines will be met.
    Therefore,
    Petitioner will be in
    compliance with the law and no variance is needed.
    ~e will
    dismiss the variance petition without prejudice.
    ORDER
    The variance petition is dismissed without prejudice.
    I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify the above Opinion and Order was adopted
    this
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    day of June,
    1973 by a vote of
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