ILLINOIS
    POLLUTION
    CONTROL BOARD
    January
    24,
    1972
    CERTAIN-TEED PRODUCTS CORP.
    v.
    )
    # PCB 71—349
    ENVIRONP~’ENTALPROTECTION AGENCY
    Opinion of
    the
    Board
    (by Mr.
    Currie)
    Certain—Teed has an approved program for installing air
    pollution control equipment on its asphalt saturators
    in
    Chicago Heights.
    In light of our decision in EPA v.
    Commonwealth
    Edison Co.,
    70—4
    (Feb.
    17,
    1971),
    the company filed
    a petition
    seeking that we reaffirm its permission
    to emit
    in excess
    of
    the regulations during completion of
    its program,
    asking that
    the date for ultimate compliance be accelerated
    from December
    1972
    to December
    1971.
    On December
    5,
    1971,
    the Agency received
    a letter construed
    by the Agency
    as
    an amended Petition
    for
    a variance re~uestinq
    that
    a variance be granted until March
    31,
    1972.
    An Agency investigation on November
    17,
    1971 disclosed
    ccnsiderable progress with regard to installation
    of after-
    burners
    on its asphalt saturator machines.
    The company has
    significantly accelerated
    its program,
    and we grant
    the variance
    on conditions suggested by the Agency.
    ORDER
    Certain—Teed Products
    Corp.
    is hereby granted
    a variance
    to
    permit particulate emissions in excess of those oermitted
    by regulations
    from equipment covered by
    its control program,
    until March
    31,
    1972 subject to
    the following conditions:
    1.
    That
    the Petitioner shall post
    a performance bond
    in the
    amount
    of $30,000 to ensure completion
    of
    the proposed
    program on or before March
    31,
    1972.
    2.
    That the Petitioner shall not operate above
    the current
    production level
    as described
    in
    the petition until
    completion
    of the proposed control project.
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    3.
    That Petitioner shall promptly submit
    a permit application
    for the oil-water separator
    to
    the Water Pollution Control
    Division of the Agency.
    4.
    That the Petitioner shall submit bi—weekly reports de-
    tailing
    its progress or
    lack of progress on the proposed
    control equipment and the production level of operation
    of their facilities until the control program is complete.
    I,
    Christan Moffett, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board, certify
    that the Board adopted the above Opinion this 24th day of
    January,
    1972 by vote of 3-0.
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