ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June
    29, 1972
    BELOIT FOUNDRY COMPANY
    v.
    )
    PCB 72—182
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    OPINION
    OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Kissel):
    Beloit Foundry Company
    (“Beloit”)
    seeks
    an
    extension
    until
    August
    11,
    1972 to comply with the March
    20, 1972 deadline imposed
    by the Board in its Order of October
    28, 1971 in PCB 71-101.
    That
    Board Order directed that Beloit pursue
    with diligence
    a program
    intended to bring its particulate emissions from a gray
    iron cupola
    into compliance with the applicable state
    standards.
    Beloit’s pro-
    gram contemplates the installation of
    a baghouse,
    afterburner and
    associated equipment.
    Beloit contends that
    the
    five-month delay
    in completing
    in-
    stallation
    is attributable
    to suppliers’
    late delivery and strikes
    at
    the
    equipment manufacturers.
    Several items
    of
    correspondence
    submitted with the variance application substantiate Beloit’s dili-
    gence
    in
    seeking to obtain expedited delivery.
    In addition, Beloit
    has
    installed most of the control equipment which has been delivered
    to
    it.
    The Agency recommends that the variance be granted since
    the delay
    in installation has not been due to Beloit’s negligence,
    but rather to delays over which Beloit had no control,and since
    Beloit has shown diligence in installing the equipment upon arrival.
    We agree, but will impose the conditions which the Agency
    recommends:
    keeping the $150,000 performance bond in force and
    effect;
    and submitting monthly progress reports to the Agency.
    ORDER
    Beloit Foundry Company is hereby granted a variance until
    August
    11,
    1972
    from Paragraph
    1
    of the Board order in PCB
    71-101,
    decided October
    28,
    1971,
    subject to the following conditions:
    1.
    Beloit shall keep
    in
    force and effect the $150,000
    performance bond~utilsuch time
    as the
    emission
    control system is
    c~mplete.dand meets Agency approval
    as
    to
    its satisfactory operation.
    4— 749
    2.
    Beloit shall submit monthly progress reports
    to the Agency.
    3.
    Beloit shall act with utmost diligence and
    expedition
    in completing the emission control
    program.
    I, Christan L. Moffett,
    Clerk of the Pollution Control Board,
    cert4.fy that the Board adopted the above Opinion and Order this
    ~q”’
    day of
    June,
    1972, by
    a vote of
    4~’—~
    4
    —
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