ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

November

15,

1973

M

&

S WOOD AND PAPER

CORPS

Petitioner,

PCB 73~368

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent

OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr~

Henss)

Petitioner requests extension

of a variance which was

granted in PCB 72~236for the burning of wood

wastes

with the

aid of an air curtain destructor~

It is stated that the

material burned is 15 to

20

tons per day of dry clean wood

products and that it would cost

$25

per truckload~todispose

of this material at

a landfilL

The manufacturer

of the air

curtain destructor states that smoke emission is #1 or less on

the Ringelmann Chart,

The burning takes place in Boone County~

The variance was granted on October

10, 1972 as

uan experth

ment to determine the adequacy of the air curtain destructor

as

a substitute for more expensive

in.cinerators in the burning of

clean wood that

does

not qualify as landscape waste”~ Petitioner

states that representatives of the EPA have observed the air

curtain destructor in operation,

The Agency, however, has not filed

a Recommendation in this

matter~

Since the variance petition

was

filed

on

August 30, 1973

and was

supplemented with additional information on September 26,

1973,

the

Agency had ample opportunity to object to

the

extension

of

variance

if it

chose to do so~

From the record which is presented we believe that

it will

be worthwhile to continue this experiment for another years

The

information is rather

meager

but does indicate that emissions are

minimal

and that the alternative use of a landfill would impose

a substantial economic burden.

The variance is extended until

October

10,

1974.

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ORDER

Variance is hereby granted to M

&

S Wood and Paper Corporation

to burn certain wood wastes not constituting landscape waste in an

air curtain destructor at its Boone County site until October 10,

1974, subject to renewal on an annual basis upon reapplication and

proper proof and subject to the following conditions:

1.

Only landscape wastes and cleaned unpainted lumber

shall be incinerated;

shall be separated prior to burning and disposed of

by some other fashion.

2.

An operator must bein

attendance at all times when

trade waste is being burned.

3.

The feed to the destructor shall be adjusted so

as

during burning.

4.

The material used to promote combustion shall be of

no lesser quality than number

2 fuel oil.

5.

Burning shall be conducted only on days when the wind

velocity is between

5 and 25 miles per hour.

6.

Burning shall be conducted only between the hours of

8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Quantities

of materials to

be burned shall be restricted to an amount which can

be consumed within these hours.

7.

The burning site shall be provided with adequate fire

8.

9.

with the manufacturer’s operating instructions.

10.

Petitioner shall file a written report with the

Environmental Protection Agency within

30 days and

then quarterly during the variance specifying the type

and quantity of materials burned, the type and quantity

of emissions,

the cost of operation and any additional

information which will assist the EPA in evaluating the

merits of this experimental project.

10—124

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I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereby certify the above Opinion and Order was ad2pted

this __________day of

~

,

1973 by a vote of

4

to C,

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