ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November

10, 1976

QUALITY READY MIX CONCRETE COMPANY,

)

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 76—224

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

)

Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Dr. Satchell):

This matter comes before the Pollution Control Board

(Board)

upon

a petition for variance filed September 3,

1976.

Two previous variances have been granted by the Board

concerning the same process

in PCB 75—73,

17 PCB 31

(1975)

and PCB 75-383,

19 PCB 729

(1976).

Quality Ready Mix Concrete

Company

(Quality)

is seeking a five year extension of a variance

from Rule

502(a)

of the Chapter

2: Air Pollution Control Regu-

lations

(Regulations)

in order to operate an air curtain

destructor to burn certain wood wastes resulting from the

stripping of old railroad cars.

The Agency filed its recom-

mendation on October 15,

1976.

The air curtain destructor

site is located approximately

one mile south of Fulton, Illinois.

The nearest residence is

some 800 feet from the site

in

an easterly direction.

The

Agency contacted the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office and

the Mayor of the City of Fulton and found that neither

Office had any complaints concerning Quality’s past operations.

Petitioner states that the one way distance to the

nearest

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economic

burden

on

the

company.

Quality

further

states

that

landfill personnel are reluctant to accept large volumes of

relatively non-compressible material.

Quality states that it is planned that an average of

ten cars per day will be burned.

Each car contains an esti-

mated twelve cubic yards of clean untreated lumber for disposal.

About fifteen to twenty percent is good enough to salvage for

reuse.

Petitioner states that all burning should be done

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within fifteen hours

a week,

aiving Petitioner ample time

to choose days best suited for burning.

The air curtain

destructor

in use is

a Model

200, manufactured by

w.

A.

Kutrieb

Inc. of Janesville, Wisconsin, purchased in 1975.

In PCB 75—73 the destructor

is stated to have

a rated design

capacity of

12 to 15 tons per hour; Petitioner

at that time

planned to burn at a rate of 10 tons per hour.

The Agency

recommendation states that based on estimates extracted from

“The Effects of Operating Variables and Refuse Types from a

Pilot Scale Trench Incinerator,” Proceedings before the

Incinerator Division of ASME,

1968 by

J.

0. Burckle, et al.

that emissions from burning clean wood in an air curt~Tn

destructor would be 4.6 pounds per ton for particulate matter,

0.2 pounds per ton for hydrocarbon and 4.0 pounds per ton for

nitrogen oxides.

The Agency further states that the nearest

Illinois ambient air quality monitoring locations East Moline

and Sterling are too distant to be pertinent in this matter.

The Agency has received information from the Iowa Department

of Environmental Quality concerning ambient air quality moni-

toring in Clinton,

Iowa.

There are two monitoring

sites that

have been in operation for at least one year.

They have shown

annual geometric means for particulate matter of 59 and 82.5

micrograms per cubic meter.

These sites are approximately

four to six miles west of Quality’s air curtain destructor

location.

The Agency states that it finds the site in well main-

tained condition and the conditions justifying the prior

variances are still in effect.

The Agency recommends

the

grant of a variance for a five year period.

The Board finds that on the information presented, the

Agency recommendation and the fact that Petitioner has

apparently carried out the conditions of the prior variances

in good faith that a variance should be granted to Petitioner

for a period of five years subject

Lo the conditions of

PCB 75—73 and PCB 75—383.

This opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of fact

and conálusions of

law.

ORDER

It is the order of the Pollution Control Board that

Quality Ready Mix Concrete Company be granted variance from

Rule 502(a) of the Air Pollution Control Regulations until

September

2, 1981 in order to dispose of clean wood waste

with an air curtain destructor,

subject to the following

conditions:

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1.

Only

clean,

unpainted

and

untreated

lumber

waste

shall

he

incinerated,

all

other

lumber

and

debris

shall

be

separated

prior

to

burning

and

disposed

of by some other method.

2.

An operator must be in attendance at all times

when the air curtain destructor is

in operation.

3.

Feed to the destructor shall be adjusted so as

to prevent any visible emissions from the destruc—

tor during burning.

4.

Material used to promote combustion shall be of

no lesser quality than #2 fuel oil.

5.

Burning shall be conducted only on days when wind

velocity is between

5 and

25 miles per hour.

6.

Burning shall be conducted only between the hours

of

8 a.m and 4 p.m.

Quantities of material to be

burned shall be restricted

to an amount which can

be consumed within these hours.

7.

The burning site shall be provided with adequate

fire protection and with such equipment as neces-

sary to control accidental

fires.

8.

The air curtain destructor shall be operated

in

accordance with the manufacturer’s operating

instructions.

9.

Within fourteen

(14)

days of this order Petitioner

shall execute and forward to the Program Coordinator

at:

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Aiency

Division

of

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Pollutlon ConLrol

Control

Proqrani Coord in

~i

for

2200 Churchill Road

Springfield,

Illinois

62706

the

Certificate

of

Acceptance

and

Agreement

to

be

bound by all the terms and conditions of the variance.

The form of said Certification shall be as

follows:

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CERTIFICATION

I,

(We)

,

_______________________________

having

read

and fully understanding the Order of the Illinois Pollu-

tion Control Board in PCB 76-224 hereby accept said

Order and agree to be bound by all of the terms and

conditions thereof.

Signed by:_____________________

Title:____________________________

Date: ___________________________

Mr.

Dumelle

dissented.

I,

Christan

L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby certify the above Opinion and Order

were adopted on

the

~

day of

~

1976

by

a

VOLI’

of

1/_j

U1U~c~~

Christan

L. Moffet~4çler~

Illinois

Pollution’~d’ntrol

Board

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