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Let to the FBI re Hazardous Waste Landfill-Peoria area

March 29, 2007

The following letter is being faxed

to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation today's date,

March 30, 2007 through the

computer of

Michael E

. Thornton per the instructions of the

local Peoria FBI Office, telephone number

309-676-

1922 and FAX No

. 495-2008) .

Federal Bureau of Investigation Field Office

Peoria, Illinois

RE:

1) Appeal of Expansion of Hazardous Waste Landfill - Peoria ;

2) Peoria Disposal Company's Request for NEW PERMIT designating them as "Manufacturer" of the hazardous

waste in the Landfill ;

Gentlemen :

I am writing an update on my concerns regarding the expansion of the Hazardous Waste Landfill located in

Pottstown, in the back yard of Peoria, Illinois

. I had communicated my concerns to the FBI and shared those

concerns with the Peoria County Board members

. They had responsibly voted down the Hazardous Waste

Landfill expansion in response to the public outcry and concern for both the public health, and the safety of the

human and wildlife population of the area

.

The Landfill in question continues to operate--business as usual in spite of the Board's decision

. In a mandated

meeting conducted at the Peoria Disposal Company's Lab in Pioneer Park in Peoria as part of the various permit

processes, the question was asked why Peoria Disposal Company (PDC) continues to push to be in an area in

which the Peoria County Board's vote showed they were obviously not welcome

. They hemmed and hawed

around saying that they wanted to continue saving the jobs involved

. When this issue was continually pressed,

however, the spokesperson and legal representative for PDC stated that if the Landfill had to find another

location, it would take them TWENTY YEARS or more to get another permit issued IF they could get another

issued .

) :.

When representatives of the opposition asked why they couldn't go where they were not over an aquifer, the

spokesperson for the Landfill stated that most sites in Illinois are over an aquifer---that's just the way the land is in

Illinois--there are alot of underground rivers

. If this is true, it seems obvious to me that Illinois is not a good

option for Hazardous Waste Landfills .

PDC has a four-pronged strategy to continue operating--as the EPA and the State of Illinois

continues to allow

them to operate business as usual AS THEY DRAG THEIR FEET during this litigation that could go on indefinitely

impacting health and safety in spite of the area's best attempts to stop them through the Peoria County Board's

decision

. I will address two of their 4-pronged strategies

:

1. They will continue with the Appeal of the Board's Decision

:

"Opposition to Expansion of Peoria Disposal Company's Hazardous Waste Landfill 1438120003

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Peoria County

Peoria Disposal Company

ILD000805812

Permit Section Log No . PS06-130

RCRA Permit

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One of PDC's ploys to overturn the Board's decision to reject the expansion of the Landfill in their appeal process

was to subpoena several of the opposition and "grill" them--scare tactics used against people for trying to save

their environment, their homes and their livelihood . This is particularly repulsive, as many of the opposing citizens

do not have the big bucks PDC has to pay high-powered lawyers

. They are counting on that . This type of

harassment and bullying does not speak well of the American process of law . It is not the first time we have seen

PDC employ these kinds of tactics .

2. PDC is applying for an altogether DIFFERENT permit which, if granted, will not need the approval of the

Peoria County Board . They are stating that the Supreme Court of Illinois has ruled that Peoria Disposal Company

(PDC) is the

"manufacturer" of the Hazardous Waste materials that come into the Peoria area brought in by

hundreds, if not thousands of trucks from up to 15 other states . The Court has come to this ruling apparently

because under this permit, PDC will no longer just put the raw waste into the ground as it is at the Landfill

. If they

receive this new type of permit, they will mix the incoming waste with a sand, gravel, concrete-like mixture which

they call a binder, and THEN put the same waste into the ground . The binder cannot take away the poisonous

properties of the waste--nor does it stop the ravages of time, weather, tornado, earthquake on the waste which

WILL eventually DRAIN into the aquifer, creeks and rivers

. Also, the option of bringing in PCB's (polychlorinated

biphenyls) has been added to the above permit requests when PDC originally promised not to introduce PCB's

into the Landfill because of the implications of long-term endangerment to the environment .

This is a neat trick if PDC can pull it off. Not only can they overturn the voice of the citizens spoken through the

voice of the Peoria County Board, the local governing body over the Landfill, but it sounds suspiciously to me

as if they have softened the legal right of the FBI or the Government to raise issues over the INTERSTATE

TRANSPORTATION OF TOXIC/HAZARDOUS WASTES INTO ILLINOIS FROM SO FAR 15 OTHER STATES!

They can just say PDC is the manufacturer, as stated by the Illinois Supreme Court--so it almost seems as if the

Trucking Companies and their Contractors don't exist--or if they do, they have very little responsibility in the

process . I am not a lawyer, but I'd be interested to see how those legal ramifications play out .

I don't know how the high court came to this decision--even though PDC is adding 50 to 75 percent more filler to

each load of hazardous waste

. PDC stated dilution is illegal, but this practice seems very similar to dilution

except that the materials are dry and not wet . There certainly will be dilution when the elements get to it

eventually .

What can the high court and the EPA be thinking of--especially in view of the multitude of underground rivers in

Illinois which lead to our Illinois River which adjoins the Mississippi! This problem affects more than just Illinois!

I am appalled that this "business as usual" attitude and fact has continued this long with an extreme number of

extensions for over 30 years when most of Peoria was so in the dark that this lucrative, dangerous business was

even operating here . How could this happen? How could the EPA allow this to happen? The Peoria Board has

seen the dangers and has had the courage and good sense to say enough is too much! We don't owe anything

to PDC to continue pushing their extensions through, do we? The EPA doesn't owe them anything, does it? Or

DOES IT?

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This is a multi-million dollar business we're talking about--possibly and potentially a mufti-BILLION dollar business

(money made on the backs of our citizens, our beautiful riverways, wildlife, farmlands, and at-risk housing market

.

Money made despite Peoria being one of the highest cities statistically in the United States for incidences of

cancer, multiple sclerosis, early births, the list goes on and on

.) The medical experts and doctors were

represented with their lists of medical catastrophes occurring in the Peoria area .

1 want to see not only these permits, but these extensions cease and desist! It is time to have a

STOP WORK

INJUNCTION, until these medical and other environmental issues can be property investigated--not the other

way

around!

It's all in the record and I believe it behooves the EPA and parties deciding this life and death issue, to look at the

record--in spite of PDC's shotgun approach to diffuse the unity of the opposition and to distract . Their very

shrewd and greedy attempt to make the opposition work four times as hard with their four different strategies (to

date) which necessitate four times as many letters, meetings, and so on to all of the people who have already

gone through this process

. These kinds of statistics (medical disease statistics) are the warning signs--and sorry

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to say, not EARLY warning signs of serious trouble . I would think insurance companies would consider suing for

extreme losses due to high incidences of medical problems here in Peoria

. And if they can't prove the Landfill is

responsible yet, perhaps it would be in their best interests and ours for them and the health officials to investigate

and do research to prove it .

There must be a government agency that would look into that

. I know the EPA puts stringent requirements on

Caterpillar for emissions--costing them millions of dollars, yet the emissions and toxic dust that the comes from

the Landfill is still unchecked

. I have not heard of any fines being levied, either .

I continue to ask for investigation and monitoring of these so-called "legal permits and regulations"

.

If the "legal" things are going to kill us either slowly or quickly and destroy our environment and the flourishing

wildlife of Illinois--a great natural resource to the United States of America, perhaps it is time to redefine the word,

"legal", and the hierarchy that hands it down,

First things first, but there needs to be restitution made to the area and massive cleanup of the present threat,

along with the STOP WORK INJUNCTION

.

Pleas hea

voice o the People asking toto save what we have before it is too late)

F. Christine Ozuna-Tho ton

11700 North Riverview Road

Chillicothe, IL 61523

(309) 579-3548

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