ILLINOIS

POLLUTION

CONTROL

BOARD

March

3,

1971

QUINCY

SOYBEAN

CO.

)

)

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ENVIPONNENTAL

PROTECTION

AGENCY

)

Opinion

of

the

Board

(by

hr.

Currie)

Quincy

asks

a

variance

for

the

open

burning

of

trees

arid

brush.

II; alleges

no special hardship but

only

its

disagreement

with

tnc

phllosophy

of

the

regulations

and

of

the

statutory

proh:i.bition

of

open

burning.

The

allegations

arc

ourely

conclusory,

not

Factual:

Quincy

says

it

sees

“no

suitable

alternative’

to burning and that the burning

“will

not.

Inpose

mi

ury

on the

Public.

“

This

petition

does

not

meet

the

recuirements

of

our

Procedural

Rule

~40l.

Pee

City

OF

Jacksonville

v.

EPA,

#

70—30,

decided

January

27,

1971.

Because

the

petition

is

insufficient,

no

hearing

ll

necessary.

The

petition

is

dismissed.

This

ooinicn

constitutes

the

findings

of

fact,

con-

clusions

of

law,

and

order

of

the

Board.

I,

Regina

E.

Ryan,

Clerk

ofthe

Pollution

Control

Board,

certi~y

that

the

Board

adapf~ed

the

above

Opinion

this

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