Section 180.101  Purpose

These rules establish the procedures and the criteria which the Agency will use to review applications and to make recommendations to the Pollution Control Board (Board) for granting provisional variances.  Section 35(b) of the Act states that such provisional variances shall be granted by the Board "upon notification from the Agency that compliance on a short term basis with any rule or regulation, requirement or order of the Board, or with any permit requirement would impose an arbitrary or unreasonable hardship."