ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

October 14, 1971

COOK COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT

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71—304

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Preliminary Order:

Petitioner seeks to burn landscape waste. Under our new

regulations this is basically a matter to be handled by the EPA

on a permit basis, and the Agency~’saction with regard to a permit

request is not stated. The implication, however, is that the

case does not come within the requirements for issuance of a

permit, presumably that’portion of the regulations recuiring

use of an air—curtain destructor within certain restricted areas.

We therefore assume the petition is a timely response to a permit

denial, subject to refutation at a later date.

The petition seeks two things: to burn without a destructor

until installation of one can be completed, by no later than

December 1; and thereafter to burn, without the destructor, wastes

in excess of its capacity. On the second request a hearing is

hereby authorized. On the first a hearing would exhaust the period

of the variance request, and therefore we shall retain that portion

of the case for decision without hearing upon receipt of the

Agency’

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recommendation.

I, Regian E. Ryan, Clerk of the Pollution Control Board, certify

that the Board adopted the above Preliminary Orc1~this

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day of_October

,

1971.

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