ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

May 10, 1972

ILLINOIS POWER CO.

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#72—190

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Preliminary Order of the Board (by Mr. Currie):

Illinois Power asks to be exempted from our new sulfur

dioxide emission regulations with regard to its large Wood River

unit #1. The company fnvites us to take official notice

of our voluminous record as to technology for sulfur dioxide

control just compiled in #R 71-23, Emission Standards, as a

result of which the regulations were adopted. We shall do so,

as we have no intention of repeating all that evidence in the

present proceeding. We hereby authorize a hearing limited

to facts relevant to the unit in question that allegedly make

compliance there a particular hardship as contrasted with a

relitigation of the merits of the regulation as a whole. That

issue has been fully litigated and decided in the extensive

rule-making proceeding in which Illinois Power participated

most considerably.

I, Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board,

certify that the Board adopted the above Preliminary Order

this 10th day of May by a vote of 5-0.

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