ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL
    BOARD
    August
    9,
    1990
    NATIONAL STEEL CORP.,
    GRANITE CITY DIVISION,
    )
    Petitioner,
    PCB 90—150
    v.
    )
    (Provisional Variance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    DISSENTING STATEMENT (by J.D. Dumelle):
    My reason for dissenting
    lies in the incorrect technical basis
    for the IEPA recommendation to grant this provisional variance.
    The IEPA asserts that the two sprayings of adjacent roadways
    will reduce PM—b
    (particulate matter
    10 microns or
    less
    in size)
    by 29.74
    lbs/hr.
    The shutdown of the West Quench Tower and use of
    the non-complying East Quench Tower will increase PM—10 emissions
    by 27.70 lbs/hr.
    according to
    IEPA.
    As a technical matter all PM—b
    is not identical.
    Emissions
    from coke ovens are notoriously cancer-causing.
    Coke oven topside
    workers have a high documented incidence of
    lung cancer.
    On the
    other hand,
    roadway dust emissions may be relatively innocuous sand
    and dirt particles and may contain
    a low amount of the dangerous
    polyaromatic hydrocarbons
    (PAR).
    If,
    in fact,
    as the IEPA seems to assert
    the roadway dust is
    equivalent in toxicity to the coke oven emissions then why has IEPA
    not required the roadways
    to be paved?
    That would then permanently
    eliminate the PM-b
    emissions from this source which impinge daily
    upon Granite City residents, some of whom live as close as 1,000
    feet away.
    Finally,
    it seems
    to me that the provisional variance would
    have required that the non-complying East Quench Tower be equipped
    with grit arrestors so
    that
    in the future this situation would
    never
    again occur.
    For these reasons,
    I dissent.
    114—101
    I,
    Dorothy
    M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of
    the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board hereby certify
    that the above Dissenting Statement
    was
    submitted on
    the
    ~~j&L
    day of
    ~
    ,
    1990.
    /~.
    Dorothy M. punn,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pd1~.lutionControl Board
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