ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

September

11,

1986

IN THE MATTER OF:

)

PARTICULATE EMISSION STANDARDS

)

R84-42

FOR CONTINUOUS AUTOMATIC

)

STOKING PATHOLOGICAL WASTE

)

INCINERATORS

PROPOSED RULE

SECOND NOTICE

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by B.

Forcade):

This matter comes before

the Board on a November

1,

1984,

regulatory proposal by Basic Environmental Engineering,

Inc.

(“Basic”).

Basic proposes

a new statewide general regulation

that would establish particulate emissions standards for

continuous automatic stoking pathological waste

incinerators

(“Basic

incinerator”).

Hearings were held on April 24,

1985,

in

Chicago and on June

3,

1985,

in Springfield.

On October

8, 1985,

the Department of Energy and Natural Resources

(“DENR”) filed

a

letter of negative declaration of economic impact, obviating the

need

for

a formal economic

impact study.

The Economic and

Technical Advisory Committee of the DENR concurred with this

action on October

17, 1985.

On June 20,

1986,

the Board proposed regulatory language for

first notice comment which was published

at

10

Ill.

Reg. 11751,

July 11,

1986.

The statutory 45—day comment period ended

on

August 25,

1986.

One comment was received from the

Administrative Code Unit of the Secretary of State’s Office

regarding non—substantive format corrections.

Those changes have

been incorporated

in the second notice order.

A detailed discussion of the evidence and Board resolution

of the issues is provided

in the June

20,

1986, Opinion

in this

matter and will not

be repeated here.

However,

a brief

discussion of the subject and issues involved

is provided.

The

proposed rule would allow animal pathological incinerators using

continuous automatic stoking

to apply a different basis

for

determining the emission limit than existing 35 Ill.

Adm. Code

212.181.

The continuous automatic stoking pathological

incinerator cannot comply with the existing particulate

regulation which utilizes

a concentration based limitation with a

correction factor

for CO2.

The continuous automatic stoking

pathological incinerator

can comply when charcoal or some other

material with high carbon content is added

to the animal

charge.

The proposed rule, which would allow a mass emissions

(pounds of emissions/pounds of charge) method of calculating

compliance rather than the existing concentration based method

would obviate the need to add charcoal, while ensuring that

actual particulate emissions are equivalent to those allowed

under 212.181.

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The Board will propose this

rule for second notice review by

the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.

The only two

modifications made

at this time are the capitalization of the

word

“section”

in Section 212.185(a)

and the addition of

a

section source

note.

As previously noted,

these changes are made

in response

to Administrative Code Unit comments.

ORDER

The Clerk of the Pollution Control Board

is directed

to

submit the following proposed rule to the Joint Committee on

Administrative Rules for second notice review:

Section 212.185

Continuous Automatic Stoking Animal

Pathological Waste Incinerators

a)

For purposes of this Section,

the following definitions

apply:

“Animal Pathological Waste” means waste composed

of whole or parts of animal carcasses not exceeding ten

percent by weight of other materials such as plastic,

p~perwrapping and animal collars.

“Animal” means any

organism other

than a human being of the kingdom,

Animal, distinguished from plants by certain typical

characteristics such as the power

of locomotion,

fixed

structure and limited growth, and non—photosynthetic

metabolism.

“Continuous automatic stoking” means

the

automatic moving

of animal pathological waste during

burning, by moving

the hearth

in

a pulse cycle manner,

which process

is designed

to provide

a continuous

burning

rate in which the design charging

rate per hour

equals the burning rate every hour without limitation,

and results

in emission rates which are similar over any

hour of the burning process.

b)

Section 212.181

shall not apply to continuous automatic

stoking pathological waste incinerators

if all of the

following conditions are met:

1)

The incinerator

shall burn animal pathological

waste exclusively, except as otherwise prescribed

by the Agency during specified test operation.

2)

The

incinerator shall burn no more than 907

kilograms

(2000

pounds)

of waste per hour.

3)

The

incinerator shall be multi—stage controlled

air

combustion incinerator having cyclical pulsed

stoking hearth.

c)

No person shall

cause or allow the emission of

~articu1ate matter into

the atmosphere from any

incinerator, as defined

in this section,

to exceed

1

g~m

of emission per

1 kilogram of

animal pathological

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waste charge

(0.1 lb/ba

lb

).

d)

The particulate matter emissions produced when burning

animal pathological waste

using gaseous auxiliary fuel

shall

not exceed

the pound per hour emission rate

equivalent

to

the maximum concentration rate set forth

in Section 212.181(d), when applied

to burning

a maximum

of 2000 lb of mixed char~geanimal pathological waste

plus solid waste

for demonstration

of compliance.

“Mixed charge”

shall contain

no more than 25

by weight

of solid waste other

than animal pathological waste.

(Source:

Added

at

Ill.

Reg.

_______________

effective

___________________)

IT

IS

SO ORDERED.

I, Dorothy

M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereby certify that the

ove Opinion and Order was

adopted

on the

/1~

day of

______________,

1986,

by a vote

of

__________

Dorothy

M. dunn,

Cleilc

Illinois Pollution Control Board

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