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ENVIROOMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

OPINION )ND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by Mr. Dumelle

This is a petition for a variance from SecUon i(c) of the Environmental

Protection Act IlL Rev, Stat, 1971, ch. Ill~l,2 par. 1009(c) and from the

Illinois Pollution Control Board~s Rules and Regulations, chapter 2, Part V,

Rules 502(a) and 504 (a)(4)(ii), to allow open burning of landscape waste with

the aid of an air curtain destructor which it has already purchased.

Rule

504

(a)(4)(ii) of the Rules provides in substance that the Agency

may not issue an open burning permit if the burning will occur within 1000 Oct

of any residential or other populated area

In the instant case there are two

residences located within 1000 feet of the proposed burning site, There is no

alternative site because the Village~sfinances will not allow the purchase of

additional land,

Attached to the Villag&s petition are

letters

from the

occupants of

those

two residences stating,

in effect, that neither

one objects to the granting

of the

variance provided that the air curtain destructor is properly used,

maintained and approved and also that the burning takes place under weather

conditions which will readily dissipate the contaminants. An Agency investigator

has interviewed those occupants, verifying they do not object to the variance.

The Agency recommends that the variance be granted provided that

certain conditions, as specified in the Agency recommendation, are met, We

agreeS

In

our Opinion covering the Open Burning Regulations

(H

70-11) we

acknowledged the use of

air

curtain destructors as an excellent means of

landscape waste disposal while creating a minimum amount

of air

pollution~

We feel

that the

use of a destructor

in this

case would

be the

most reasonable

method of

solving

the

Village~sproblem. We will grant

the variance but

only

upon the conditions enumerated in the Agency~srecommendation,

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This opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of fact and conclusions of

law.

ORDER

The Village of Peotone is granted a variance to burn landscape waste

with the aid of an air curtain destructor at the proposed site under the following

conditions:

1.

An operator must be in attendance at all times when landscape waste

is being burned.

2.

The feed to the destructor shall be adjusted so as to prevent any

visible emissions from the destructor during burning.

3.

The Village shall notify the Agency’s Regional Office (Illinois National

Armory, East Randolph at the Lake, Chicago, Illinois 60606, telephone,

312/341-4696) prior to the first operation so that the Agency may make

an on-site inspection during burning.

4.

The material used to promote combustion shall be of no lesser quality

than number 2 fuel oil.

5.

Burning shall be conducted only on days when the wind velocity is between

5 and 25 miles per hour.

6.

Burning shall be conducted only between the hours of 8:00 a. m. and 4:00 p.m.

(Central Standard Time). Quantities of materials 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 necessary to control accidental fires.

8.

Materials to be burned shall be limited to landscape wastes.

9,

The air curtain destructor shall be operated in accordance with the

manufacturer’ s operating instructions.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby

certify the above Opinion and Order was adopted on the J~”day of August, 1972

byavoteof

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Illinois Pollution

Board

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