ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September 26,
    1q72
    AMOCO CI-IEMICALS CORPORATION
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    PCB 72—370
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by Mr. Dumelle)
    The Amoco Chemicals Corporation of Joliet (Amoco) filed a letter dated
    September 11, 1972 with the Agency requesting a variance of 90 days from an
    October 1, 1972 deadline for filing an air pollution operating permit.
    The application is herewith rejected as inadequate without prejudice.
    Chapter 2, Rule 103(b)(2)(A) requires that industries such as Amoco
    in the Chemical and Allied products classification possess an operating per-
    mit by December 1, 1972 and apply for such a permit not less than 90 days in
    advance (September 1, 1972 in this case). The Amoco petition speaks of an
    amended deadline” of October 1, 1972 for filing the permit and the date of
    permit holding as being January 1, 1973.
    The Board has received no notification by the Agency that the two dates
    in question have been extended by 30 days. The Agency has the power under
    Rule 103 (b)(2)(B) to waive the 90-day minimum period in which applications
    must he filed in advance of possession requirements.
    Amocos petition
    makes no allegation that the Agency has refused to waive the 90-day period
    and thus Amoco has not exhausted its administrative remedies.
    The petition also is defective and inadequate from the requirements
    of the Act in that it does not detail the hardship to Amoco or to the public
    that would be incurred by the denial or grant of the variance.
    The petition is dismissed as premature and inadequate without prejudice.
    It is so ordered.
    I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby
    certify the above Opinion & Order were adopted on the
    ‘day of September,
    1972 by a vote of
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    Christan U. Moffett, /~B~rk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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