Alton Packaging Corp. v. Pollution Control Board

Alton Packaging Corporation (Alton) appeals requesting administrative review of two orders of the Pollution Control Board (the Board) dismissing and refusing to vacate its dismissal of Alton’s petitions for a variance and a site-specific limitation. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. HV-k, par. 1041.

In February 1983, the Board adopted Rule 204(f) (now codified as 35 Ill. Adm. Code sec. 294.141). This rule established an emission limitation for sulfur dioxide of 1.8 pounds per million British Thermal Units of energy produced (mBTU). On April 13, 1983, Alton filed petitions seeking a five-year variance…