ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

October

17,

1996

IN MATTER OF:

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Petition of Abbot Laboratories

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AS

94-5

for an Adjusted

Standard from

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(Adjusted

Standard

-

Air)

35 Ill.

Adm.

Code 218

Subpart RR

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ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by J.

Theodore Meyer):

This matter comes before the Board

on a joint status report and request for extension of

stay filed October

10,

1996 by Abbott Laboratories and the Illinois

Environmental Protection

Agency

(Agency).

The present matter

is

subject to a

stay pending approval of the United

States Environmental Protection Agency

(USEPA) of rulemaking R94-3 1,

an amendment to

35

Ill.

Adm.

Code 218

Subpart T.

The amended rule, however,

has not been approved by

the

USEPA

as a revision to the Illinois

State

Implementation Plan.

The parties report

that USEPA

requested information from

the Agency which the Agency

is currently collecting.

The parties

request that the

stay

in this matter be extended to allow USEPA to review and approve the

additional information.

The motion for stay

is granted until

December 19,

1996.

The parties are directed to

file status

reports,

either jointly or separately, no

later than December

16,

1996.

IT IS SO

ORDERED.

Board Member K. M. Hennessey abstained.

I,

Dorothy M. Gunn,

Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board,

hereby certify that

the aboye order was adopted on the

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day of

~

,

1996,

by a vote of

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Dorothy M. ~nn,

Clerk

Illinois Poll~(ion

Control Board