ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    May
    3,
    1973
    )
    SWIFT EDIBLE OIL COMPANY
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    )
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB
    73-102
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    )
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    )
    )
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr.
    Dumelle)
    Petition for variance was received March
    9,
    1973 to operate
    a pilot project
    at Champaign to dry and cool soybeans
    in two “farm
    type” batch dryers for
    a two week period
    at
    300 bushels per hour,
    16 hours per day and five
    days per week.
    The petitioner alleges
    that the beans
    are clean and that only soybean hulls
    in small quan-
    tity would be discharged without public injury.
    The Agency estimates that
    54
    lbs./hr.
    of particulate would be
    emitted but does not contrast that with whatever
    is permitted under
    Rule
    3-3.111.
    Thus the Board has no comparison before
    it.
    The
    Agency further points
    out that no
    complaints were received from the
    public on
    a similar pilot run last summer.
    It goes on
    to recommend
    dismissal without prejudice stating that the
    drying period would be
    from March
    26
    to April
    6 which are dates already past
    at the time
    of the Agency filing of its recommendation on April
    19.
    We
    do not know on this record whether or not Swift did in fact
    dry during
    the dates
    the Agency said it would.
    The variance may now
    be moot but we feel that research into grain drying
    is badly needed
    in Illinois
    (see R72-17 and R72-18 proposed regulations authorized
    for publication on this date)
    and ought to be encouraged.
    In addition,
    Swift may need
    a shield from prosecution if it has already operated
    the dryers.
    Variance
    is granted from Rule
    3-3.111 until June
    30,
    1973 for
    a
    two weeks period of pilot soybean drying commencing March
    26,
    1973.
    IT
    IS
    SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Christan L.
    Moffett, Clerk
    of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Boar2,
    hereby certify the above Opinion and Order were adopted on the
    .J~
    day of May,
    1973 by
    a vote
    of
    4~—o
    Illinois Pollution
    1 Board

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