ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November 11, 1971

CHICAGO VITREOUS CORP.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Opinion of the Board (by Mr. Currie)

Chicago Vitreous Corp. manufactures porcelain enamel

frits principally forthe appliance industry. It petitions for

confirmation of an Air Contaminant Emission Reduction Program

approved by the Air Pollution Control Board for bringing

particulate emissions into compliance with regulations.

Completion of the program has been delayed a few weeks but

is expected by December 15 of this year. Because of the brief

time involved we thought it not worthwhile to incur the ex-

pense and trouble of a hearing. The Agency’s recommendation

is that we grant the variance subject to the company’s having

a stack test performed and subject to the submission of information

and control programs for other plant sources. We shall do so,

omitting the usual bond requirement because the varaince is

to expire almost before a bond could be filed.

ORDER

Chicago Vitreous Corp. is hereby granted a variance to permit

the emission of particulate matter in excess of regulation limits

from its smelters numbered 4, 5, 7, and 8, until December 15,

1971, on the following conditions:

1. The submission of a report of stack tests under normal

operating conditions not later than January 15, 1972;

2. The submission of a report as to the status and

control plans for other potential contaminant sources

in the plant by January 15, 1972;

3. As agreed in the petition, until the control equipment for

the smelters included in this variance is operative, the

smelters shall not be operated during times when adverse

weather conditions create a hazard of nuisance.

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

certify that the Board adopted the above Opinion this _____day

of___________

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1971.

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