ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

July

22,

1971

ILLINOIS NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Opinion of the Board

(by Mr. Currie):

As

in Lake County Forest Preserve District

V.

EPA, ~7l—64

(April

28,

1971),

we

are asked to allow the open burning of

vegetation

in wildlife areas

for ecological research

and

management purposes.

For reasons given in that opinion we grant

the

petition subject to conditions stated below and suggested

by the Agency,

Burning serves important naturalistic purposes

in these cases, and the areas to be burned are relatively small

and remote.

ORDER

The Illinois Natural History Survey is hereby granted

a

variance to allow

the open burning

of the following areas:

120 acres

in the Sam Dale Conservation Area, Wayne

County;

10 small plots in the Stephen

A,

Forbes State

Park, Marion County;

25 acres

in

the Marion County Prairie

Chicken Sanctuary;

and 100

acres

in the Jasper County Prairie

Chicken Sanctuary,

subject to the following conditions:

1)

burning shall

take place only between 10

a.m. and

4

p.m.

and only when weather conditions assure maximum

dispersion and

minimum impact on adjacent properties;

2)

burning shall be completed by December

31,

1971;

3)

a report shall

be

filed with

the Agency advising when

the burning is completed and giving the circumstances and de-

tails of the burning.

I,

Reging

E.

Ryan, Clerk

of the

Board, certify that the Board

adopted

the above Opinion this

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