ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

June

28,

1971

AMERICAN STEEL FOUNDRIES

*

71—79

*

71—96

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Opinion of the Board

(by Mr. Currie):

The company first petitioned

(#71-79)

for permission

to conduct

open burning

for

the purpose of instruction in firefighting

techniques on April

27, 197l~

Since the petition was filed April

19,

there was

no time for us to pass on it;

a second petition

(#71-96)

superseded

the first and changed the date to July

8.

As we have

done in past cases

(see Deere

& CoW,

v.

EPA,

#70-20,

DecO

22,

1970),

we grant the petition subject to conditions suggested by the

Agency,

recognizing that there is no substitute for firefighting

in learning to fight fires

and that the benefits

of such instruction

far outweigh the little pollution it causes under proper conditions.

I.

American Steel Foundries is granted

a variance

to permit

open burning on any one

day during July,

1971 for the purpose of

instruction

in lirefighting techniques on its plant grounds on Granite

City subject to

the following conditions:

I)

burning shall be conducted only when the

wind

is from the east or west; only when the wind

speed

is

5

to

20 miles per hour;

only when

the

sky

is not overcast; and only between the hours

of

10

a,rn,

and

5 p~m.

2)

burning shall he limited to

10 gallons

of

#2

diesel oil

and 100 pounds of wood.

3)

the company shall file

a report of the burting with

the Agency within one month after the session.

The

report shall describe wind conditions,

the number of

employees attending,

the types

and amounts of con—

hustibles burned,

and the total duration of burning

and smoke emission.

2.

The petition

in #71—79 is dismissed as moot,

1,

heqina

F.

Ryan,

Clerk of the Pollution Contpol Board, certify~

that

the Board acueted t~cabove ominion th1s~

day ~

1971

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