ILLINOIS
POLLUTION
CONTROL
BOARD
June 23,
1971
OLIN CORPORATION,
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MARION
PLANT
)
#PCB71—60
v
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
)
OPINION
OF
THE
BOARD
(BY MR
LAWTON):
DELBERT D HASCHMEYER,
Attorney
for ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
PATRICK O BOYLE
and
J. F
SCHLAFLY,
Attorneys
for
OLIN
CORPORATION
The Olin
Corporation
has
petitioned this
Board for
a one-year
extension
of the
variance
granted by
our predecessor,
the Air
Pollu
tion
Control Board,
to
permit
open
burning
of explosive
waste. The
waste is
generated
by a
plant in
Marion,
Illinois, which
manufactures
rockets,
flares,
aircraft
starter
cartridges
and gas generators
and
ignitors
for missiles,
These wastes
consist
of
various
types of
pro
pellant,
of pyrotechnic
candle mix
and of
fuel
oil
in
which
the
scrap
explosives
are
immersed
as
a safety
precaution
The pyrotechnic
waste,
which has
a high
magnesium
content
constitutes
approximately
6,000
pounds
of
the nearly
7,000
pounds of
scrap explosives
generated
weekly
The
waste
is
burned
on
a
remote
strip mining
site
75 miles from
the
nearest residence
An Order
allowing
the variance
subject
to the terms
and conditions
hereinafter
set
forth was
entered by
the Board
on June 16,
l97L
This
Opinion is
in
support
of
that Order
Petitioner
contends
that
to deny the
variance
would
constitute
an unreasonable
hardship
principally
because
open burning
is
the
only
safe method
to
dispose
of
this particular
kind
of explosive
refuse
and
because
such
open burning,
conducted
at
extremely
high
temperatures, creates
“relatively
clean”
emissions
which cause
“no
harm
to
the public
to the
best of
Petitioners
knowledge”
(Variance
petition)
The
Environmental
Protection
Agency
recommended
denying
the
variance
because of
what
it
dubbed
the “little more
than token effort”
of
Olin in progressing
toward
a
non-polluting
method
for disposal
of
these
wastes The
Agency
contended
that Olin
could have made
substantial
progress
at its Marion
plant because
the Company
had
already
done
much to
reduce
pollution
from explosive
waste disposal
at its
plant
in
East
Alton,
Illinois
(See
PCB#7l-7)
And the Agency
believed the
East
Alton
situation
comparable
to the
Marion prob1em
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