ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

December

2,

1976

OLIN CORPORATION,

a Virginia Corporation,

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 76—213

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr.

Goodman):

On September 16,

1976 Olin Corporation

(Olin)

filed a Petition

before the Board requesting extension

of variance from certain Air

Pollution Control Regulations

for its pyrotechnic destructor in-

cinerator

(destructor)

and retort destructor incinerator

(retort)

located in Williamson County near Marion,

Illinois.

The Illinois

Environmental Protection Agency

(Agency)

filed its recommendation

in

this matter on November

8,

1976.

No hearing was held,

and no public

comment has been received.

Olin requests

a five year extension of

a variance granted in

PCB 75-333 which expires December

5,

1976.

The relief requested

is from Air Pollution Control Regulations,

Chapter

2,

Rules

104,

203 Ce),

and 206 (b).

Both the destructor and the retort are utilized

in the

di

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1

of

explosive

wasL(’s

and

are

von

Led

to

the

same

stack

and control

equipment.

The destructor

is

used

to destroy

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primers and explosive projectiles from intermediate caliber ammu-

nition.

The variance sought

is for the operation of both incine-

rators.

The Agency,

in its Recommendation,

indicates

that,

due to

the

unusually high amount of secondary air required in this type of in-

cineration,

the existing emission standards may not be well suited

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for

application

to

the burning of explosive wastes.

The Agency

also believes that the possibility that Olin will violate the ambient

air quality in the area during the proposed variance is minimal and

proposes

that the Board grant variance under certain conditions.

The Board finds Olin has continued to act in good faith in

trying to solve

its waste disposal problem.

In addition, the equip-

ment used by Olin represents

the state of the art for elimination

of highly explosive wastes and,

therefore, denial of a variance at

this point

in time would place an unreasonable and arbitrary hard-

ship on Olin.

The Board will, therefore,

grant Olin

a variance

subject to certain conditions,

including the possibility

that Olin

may submit a petition for rule change prior

to the termination of

this variance.

This Opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions

of law of the Board

in this matter.

ORDER

It

is the Order of the Pollution Control Board that Olin

Corporation be granted variance from Rules 203(e),

206(b)

and

104 of Chapter

2 of the Pollution Control Board Regulations

for

its pyrotechnic destructor incinerator and its retort destructor

incinerator located in Williamson County from December

6,

1976

until December

6,

1978,

subject to the following conditions:

1.

This variance shall terminate upon the adoption by

the Board of any rule change pursuant to any proceeding

concerning Rules 203(e),

206(b)

and 104 of Chapter

2 of

the Pollution Control Board Regulations.

2.

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in

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shall

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Order.

3.

Olin Corporation shall not operate

its pyrotechnic

destructor

at

a

rate

~xceedinq

400 pounds of scrap per

hour in any one hour, nor its destructor retort incinerator

at

a rate of more than 500 pounds per hour.

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4.

Olin Corporation shall not operate

the

pyrotechnic

destructor

for more than twenty hours

in any one week nor

operate

the destructor retort more than two hours

in any

one week.

5.

Olin Corporation shall operate the incinerators

in

a

manner such that particulate and carbon monoxide emissions

do not exceed current levels produced.

6.

Olin Corporation shall continue its present program of

explosive waste incinerator development.

7.

Within

30 days of the adoption of this Order, Petitioner,

Olin Corporation, shall execute and forward to

the Illinois

Environmental Protection Agency,

Division of Air Pollution

Control,

2200 Churchill

Road, Springfield,

Illinois

62706,

a

Certification of Acceptance and agreement to be bound to all

terms and conditions of this Order.

The form of said certi-

fication shall be as follows:

CERTIFICATION

I

(We),

______

having

read

and

fully

under-

standing the Order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board in

PCB 76-213 hereby accept said Order and agree

to

be

bound

by all of

the

terms

and

conditions

thereof.

SIGNED

______________

______

TITLE

___

______

DATE

____

I,

Christan

L.

Moffett,

Clerk

of

the

Illinois

Pollution

Control

Board

hereby

certif

the

above

Opinion

and

Order

were

adopted

on

the

day

of

,

197(~

by

a

vot:e

of

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_____

Christan

L.

Moffetk

erk

Illinois Pollution

ntrol Board

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