ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September 6
    ,
    1979
    INTERNATIONAL MINERALS
    &
    )
    CHEMICAL
    CORPORATION,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB
    79—150
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Dr.
    Satchell):
    It is the Order of the Pollution Control Board that Petitioner
    International Minerals and Chemical Corporation is granted a var-
    iance for eighteen months from the provisions of §505, Part V1
    Chapter 2:
    Air Pollution subject to the following conditions:
    1.
    The Petitioner shall submit to the Board a report from
    a competent expert that the National .kmbient Air Quality
    Standards will not be adversely affected as a result of
    the granting of this Order.
    2.
    Only the FNH material presently stored at the Marion site
    shall be burned.
    3.
    During the time of such burning the Petitioner shall have
    at least two
    (2)
    trained men on the site who shall be
    equipped with adequate fire fighting equipment to provide
    fire protection.
    The neighboring fire department
    shall
    be placed on a standby basis
    to prevent spread of fire.
    4.
    The burning shall be conducted under the direction of
    personnel trained in explosive burning procedures and
    shall be carried
    out between the hours of
    8
    a.m.
    and
    3 p.m.
    5.
    Petitioner shall follow all procedures outlined in
    Technical Order #llA-l-34, Department of the Army and
    Air Force, Washington,
    D.C.,
    28th of November,
    1967
    pertaining to the disposal, destruction and decontamina-
    tion of explosives outlined in Exhibit 3 of the Petition—
    er’s variance for the disposal of explosive waste.
    35—331
    —2—
    6.
    Not more than 20,000 pounds of FNH material shall be
    burned per day,
    and not more than 5000 pounds of explosive
    shall be burned at any one time.
    7.
    Petitioner shall notify the Agency’s Region
    3 office via
    telephone
    (618)
    345—0700 on the day of the scheduled
    burning before burning takes place.
    8.
    Petitioner shall notify the local office of the United
    States Department of the Interior, Fish and
    Wildlife
    Service, on the day of the burning before burning takes
    place.
    9.
    If ambient air quality or weather conditions are not
    favorable to burning, the manager of the Agency’s Region
    3 office or his representative shall have the right to
    instruct the Petitioner to postpone the burning.
    10.
    Petitioner shall file quarterly reports with the Agency’s
    Region
    3 Office at ll5A West Main Street, Collinsville,
    Illinois 62234 listing the amount of material burned on
    each specific day that burning took place during the
    quarterly period.
    11.
    Within ninety days of the date of this Order, Petitioner
    shall set forth in a letter to the Agency a complete list
    of all materials and facilities
    at the site which may
    require open burning within the next five years.
    12.
    The Petitioner shall within forty-five days of the date
    of this Order, execute and forward to the Air Pollution
    Control Division, Environmental Protection Agency, 2200
    Churchill Road,
    Springfield,
    Illinois 62706
    a Certificate
    of Acceptance and Agreement to be bound to all terms and
    conditions of this variance.
    This forty-five day period
    shall be held in abeyance for any period this matter is
    being appealed.
    The form of the certificate
    shall be as
    follows:
    35—332
    —3—
    CE RTIFl CATI ON
    I,
    (We),
    ,
    having
    read
    and
    fully
    understanding
    the
    Order
    in
    PCB
    79-150,
    hereby
    accept
    that Order and agree to be bound by all of its terms and conditions.
    SIGNED
    TITLE
    DATE
    I, Christan L.
    Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Cont1zol Board,
    h
    ________
    _______________,
    1979 by
    a vote of
    _________
    (,t~
    day of ~
    the above Order was ad~tedon the
    Illinois
    Pollut.
    trol
    Board
    35—333

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