Open burning is generally forbidden, but the statute reeognizes
that in some cases alternative methods of disposing of explosivewastes would create a safety hazard sufficient to Justify openburning (Environmental Protection Act, section 9(c)).
We have
granted similar applications in the past, conditioned on vigorousefforts to discover alternative methods.
The answer, concurred in by both the company’s expert
and by the EPA’s, was that it could not be and that therewas no safe alternative to open burning in this case (R.
l7’-l8).
To deny the variance thus would create a substantial risk of...
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