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In Response to the Post hearing Bnef

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In paragraph four (4)

of

the

post

hearing brief there is made the

assertion

that

I

am still

in the

metal

reclaiming business, this

is

not true.

The

business

I

am in

now

is

brokering waste from generators

direct

to

recyclers

operating permitted

fac1lIties~withoutany reclamation,

I

have

nat

been

in the metals

reclaiming

business for well over a decade, David Stone has somehow missed that fact.

The operations ofthe business

I am currently in are nothing like what went on

at

the Zimmerman

place.

I am

aware

that under current law,

reclaiming

metal before

recycling disqualifies a given hazardous waste from taking advantage of the

exemption from regulation as solid waste

offered

for materials

which

are recycled.

But

when

I operated at the

Zimmerman

property the law was different, for one, the sand

was not even classified hazardous back then.

I

have never heard

it disputed that if

I

was able

tocomplete

niy.opera~ons

there,

never

would have been an issue here for the

IEPA. Alsothè

dU~ess

d~~iich1Wás~forced~to

leave the property has not been

~o~.sJd~redatefl.$hcé

the:

~tate’s

attorney represented

Zimmerman

against me at that

time;

I wonder

if

this

has not colored his perception of the issues here Just a little.

The

guy

who

is helping

the

state

prosecuteme

is the same guy who helped Zimmerman sue

me.

Cute.

Mr. Stonets comments about my current business

are uninformed and should be

stricken from the record having no basis in

fact,

Stone

has made these assertions

based on the fact that he at least knows that

I

am

still

in

the waste business.

But to

assert that anything

I am

currently doing

In the

waste business

is

illegal

requires more

than Stone’s imagination

to

make It true.

I

know

he’d

like to blacken my reputation

so

much that

I

can never do business again, but these comments;

as

to

the

legality

ofmy

current business,

unless stricken,

WiU

bring

about a

suit

for libel.

Mike Stringini

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