2—3~~O4
IO:39~’I
CLERK’S OFFICE
ORIGINAL
~~302004
STATE OF ILLINOIS
BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION
CONTROL BOARWbJj~tj~n
Control Board
OF THE
STATE
OF ILLINOIS
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION
Ultra Low Sulthr Diesel Project
PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION NUMBER
10-22-100-006-0010
TO:
Dorothy Gunn, Clerk
Robert F. Cowgill
Illinois Pollution Control Board
ExxonMobil Oil
Corporation
State ofillinois Center
P.O. Box
53
100W. Randolph Street, Suite
11-500
Houston, Texas 77001-0053
Chicago, illinois
60601
Steve Santarelli
Illinois Department ofRevenue
101
West Jefferson
P.O. Box
19033
Springfield, illinois 62794
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Ihave today filed with the Office ofthe Pollution
Control Board the APPEARANCE and RECOMMENDATION ofThe Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency, a copy of which is herewith served upon the applicant and a representative
ofthe Illinois Department ofRevenue.
Respectfully sub
tted by,
Robb H.
Layman
~
Special Assistant Attorney General
Date:
December 30, 2004
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY
1021 North Grand Avenue East
P.O. Box
19276
Springfield, IL 62794-9276
Telephone: 217/782-5544
Facsimile:
217/782-9807
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
I~1
0
P CB~
(Tax Certification)
NOTICE
2
—-33
0:
3
SAIvI
OR
G
NA’
RECEnFED
L
CLERK’S OFFICE
BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION
CONTROL BOAR~EC
302004
OF THE STATE
OF ILLINOIS
STATE OF ILUMOIS
Pollution Control Board
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION
)
Ultra Low Suiftir Diesel Project
)
)
PCB,1~(-
)
(Tax Certification)
PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION NUMBER
)
10-22-100-006-0010
)
APPEARANCE
I hereby file my
Appearance in this proceeding on behalf of the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency.
Respectfully submitted by,
•
______
Robb H. Layman
Special Assistant Attorney General
Date:
December 30, 2004
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
1021
North Grand Avenue East
P.O. Box
19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
Telephone: 217/782-5544
Facsimile:
217/782-9807
39CA,I
-•
•----••••-
~
ORiG1i\’~~~
DEC 30
2004
BEFORE THE
ILLINOIS POLLUTION
CONTROL
BOARD
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS
STATE OF ILLINO1S
PoHut~on
Control Board
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION
)
Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Project
)
)
PCBO~
)
(Tax Certification)
PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION NUMBER
)
-
10-22-100-006-0010
-
)
•
RECOMMENDATION
NOW COMES the ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
(“Illinois EPA”), through its attorneys, and pursuant to
35 ill.
Adm. Code 125.204ofthe
ILLINOIS POLUTION CONTROL BOARD’S (“Board”) procedural regulations, files the
Illinois
EPA’s Recommendation in the above-referenced request
for tax certification of
pollution control facilities.
In support thereof, the Illinois EPA states as follows:
U
On August
19, 2004, the Illinois EPA received a request and supporting
information from EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION (“Exxon Mobil”) concerning the
proposed tax certification ofcertain air emission sources and/or equipment located at its
-
Charniahon, Illinois refineryin Will County, Illinois.
A copy ofthe relevant portions ofthe
application is attached hereto.
EExhibit A.
2.
The applicant’s address is as follows:
ExxonMobil Oil Corporation
P.O. Box 53
Houston, Texas 77011-0053
-
3.
The pollution control facilities involved in this request
are located at the:
aforementioned address and consist ofthe installation of new equipment, described as the Ultra
Low Sulfur Diesel Project, that will allow the refmery to reduce the sulfur content in the:
2—30--C4
10:39AM
EC;0
production ofdiesel fuel.
The primary purpose ofthe Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Project is to
reduce sulfur content in
diesel fuel and thereby reduce sulfur dioxide
emissions at the point in
which the diesel fuel is consumed by on-road motor vehicles.
The project requires the
installation ofreactors
to support the removal capability of an existing catalytic
hydrodesulfuiization unit.
Compression facilities at the refinery will
also be upgraded to
manage the additional hydrogen sulfide and
othergases produced
in the process.
The project
assures that the refinery will comply with federal regulations promulgated at 40 CFR Parts
69,
80 and
86.
4.
Section
11-10 ofthe Property Tax
Code, 35 LCS
200/11-10
(2002), defines
“pollution control facilities” as:
“any system, method, construction, device or appliance appurtenant thereto, or
any portion ofany building or equipment, that
is designed, constructed, installed
•
or operated forthe primary purpose of:
(a) eliminating, preventing, or reducing
air or water pollution..,
or (b) treating, pretreating, modifying or disposing of
any potential solid,
liquid, gaseous pollutant which if released without
treatment, pretreatment, modification or disposal might be harmful, detrimental
or offensive to human, plant or animal life, or to property.”
5.
Pollution control facilities are entitled to
preferential tax treatment, as provided
by
35
ILCS 200/11-5 (2002).
-
-
-
6.
Based on information in the application and the underlying purpose ofthe Ultra
Low Sulfur Diesel Project to prevent, eliminate or reduce air pollution, it is the illinois EPA’s
engineering judgment that the described project and/or equipment maybe considered as
“pollution control facilities”
in accordance with the statutory definition and consistent with the
Board’s regulations at 35 III. Adm.
Code
125.200.
-
1—10:
39Aki
-
•
EC~
7.
Because the Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Project satisfies the aforementioned
criteria, the Illinois EPA recommends that the
Board issue the applicant’s requested tax
certification.
Respectfully
submitted by,
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Robb H. Layman
Special Assistant Attorney General
DATED:
December 30, 2004
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
1021
North Grand Avenue East
P.O.
Box 19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
Telephone:
217/782-5544
Facsimile:
217/782-9807
-
THIS FlUNG IS SIJBMI1TED ON RECYCLED PAPER
I
2—3C—0~-
:10:
314M
•
ORIGINA.
C1ERrçSo~~~c~
CERTIFICATE
OF SERVICE
STATE OF ILLINOIS
POlI~t~~n
Control Board
I hereby certify that on the 30th day ofDecember, 2004, I did send, by First Class
Mail,
with postage thereon fullypaid and deposited into the possession ofthe United States Postal
Sth~vice,one (1) original and nine (9) copies ofthe following instruments entitled
NOTICE,
APPEARANCE and
RECOMMENDATION
to:
Dorothy Gunn, Clerk
•
-
Illinois Pollution Control Board
100 West Randolph Street
•
Suite
11-500
Chicago, illinois
60601
and a true
and
correct copy ofthe same foregoing instruments, by First Class Mail with postage
thereon fully paid and deposited into the possession ofthe United States Postal
Service, to:
Steve Santarelli
Robert F, Cowgill
Illinois Department ofRevenue
ExxomMobil Oil Corporation
101
West Jefferson
•
P.O.
Box 53
P.O.
Box 19033
Houston, Texas 77001-0053
Springfield, illinois 62794
Robb H. Layman
Special Assistant Attorney General
This filing
is submitted on recycled paper.
TOTAL
~
EC:
I 2—30—C)4
:•
:
Cl:
39AFv1
RECEIVED
CLERK’S OFFICE
DEC
30. 2004
•
.
STATE OF ILLINOIS
ILLINOIS
ENVIRONMENTAL PROT
ECTION
AGE~IflftionControl
Board
DWISION OF LEGAL COUNSEL
1021 NORTH GRAND AVENUE
EAST,
POST
OFFICE
BOX
19276
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
62794-9276
TELEPHONE (21 7)782-5544’FACSIMELE (2 17)782~98O7
PLEASE DELIVER THE FOLLOWING PAGE(SJ TO:
FROM:
Re:
t~m~
-C
~,
.
‘
.:.
~.
TOTAL
NUMBER
OF PAGES (INCLUDING TI-uS PAGE):
HARD
COPY
WiLL
K
WILL
NOT________
FOLLOW.
IF
YOUDO NOT
RECEIVE
ALL
OF THE PAGES, PLEASE CALL 217-782-5544.
COMMENTS:
-
éL~’
~&~C4
IMPORTANT
-
THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED
ONLY FOR THE USE
OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITYTO WHICH iT
IS
ADDRESSED;
AND
MAY
CONTAIN
INFORMATION
THAT
IS
PRIVILEGED,
CONFIDENTIAL,
AND EXEMPT
FROM
DISCLOSURE
UNDER
APPLICAPLE
LAW.
IF THE
READER OF
THE MESSAGE IS NOT THE
LN~NDED
RECIPIENT, OR THE
EMPLOYEE
OR AGENT
RESPONSIBLE
TO DELIVER IT TO THE INTENDED RECIPIENT,
YOU
ARE
HEREBY
NOTIFIED
THAT
READING,
DISSEMINATING,
DISTRffitJTING,
OR
COPYING
THIS
COMMUNICATION
IS
STI~1CTLYPROFIIBTED.
flYOtJ HAVE
RECEIVED
THIS
COMMUNICATION
IN ERROR,
PLEASE IMMEDIATELY
NOTIFY
US BY
TFLEPHONE.
AND RETURN
THE
ORIGINAL
MESSAGE
TO
US AT THE
ABOVE ADDRESS
VIA
THE U.S. POSTAL
SERVICE. THANK
YOU.
IL 532
2624
ADM
214 Feb-99
ORIGINAL
DATE:
2~G
q
FACSIMILE TRANSMITTAL
SREET
PARTY’S NAME:
________
FIRMICOMPANYS NAME:
FACSIMILE NO.:
_____
TELEPHONE NO.:
4
7~cj’ç~,
43
