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Tuesday, April 1, 1975
University Dally Kansan
By Staff Photographer ROD MIKINSKI
On a clear day ...
Emissions billow from the stacks of Cooperative Farm Chemicals ain', east of Lawrence on K-10, as a state deadline nears for tough pollution restrictions. The firm must provide additional information to the EPA.
Co-op may get pollution extension
By PETER PORTEOUS Kansan Staff Reporter
A request made by the Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn. (CFCA) to extend a deadline for installing pollution abatement equipment appears headed for approval. Local environmental watchdog efforts, however, won't ease because of the probable approval, according to two area organizations.
Faced with a July 31 deadline for installing emission control mechanisms on its No. 1 pilling tower, the CFCA plant east of Lawrence has asked for a five-month delay. The State Department of Health and Enforcement began last week that the delay be granted
The hearing was conducted by Ray Buerging, air engineering and enforcement chief for the Kansas Bureau of Air Quality and Occupational Health. Buerging said there was insufficient evidence of several ruins necessary before a final decision could be made on the request.
AMONG THOSE at the hearing was Carolyn Crawford, 4-B Cornish Square, who represented the Lawrence League of Women Voters. Crawford said after the hearing that she expected approval of the request.
"We knew we'd be turned down," she said. "But we had to let the health department know that the citizenry and particularly the League of Women Voters are very interested in what they do. We're not out to go away."
quickest possible compliance with the law. The league also urged the state to make greater efforts to provide information to the public on emission standards and regulations, she said. State officials weren't as cooperative as they should have been, she said.
Crawford said the league wanted the
Another person who testified at the hearing was Clarence Schmidt, 515 Rockledge, who read a letter from Dr. E.C. Altenbernd, Eudora, president of the Kansas Lang Association. The letter excerpts from the effects of air pollution on human health.
Buergin said it could be October before CFCA received a fan and other specialized equipment necessary for pollution control.
Summit said the Kansas Lung Association protested the extension because of what CFCA was putting into the air. According to state health department figures, CFCA is releasing 450 pounds of ammonium nitrate into the air each hour, he said. This is well over the 90 pounds an hour that is legally allowed.
"If it is documented that they can't comply, then we must go along with the request," he said, speaking for the lung transplant team. "We need to send an event in compliance we will again protect."
AMMONIUM NITRATE dust is made of minute particles that remain airborne a long time, according to Buegner. A factor in their distribution, which is agreed upon by officials and the local residents who testified, is that the wind blows toward
Lawrence approximately 10 per cent of the time.
State officials don't think there is a health hazard from the CFCA plant, Buergin said. The state health department testified at the bearing that the total ambient air standards for the Lawrence area were within federal guidelines.
Crawford, however, said she thought differently. It is known, she testified, that CF CA's discharge damages plant life within 500 feet of the plant. She noted that the city approved a high-density residential neighborhood near the plant (a mobile home park).
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Buergen said it could take a month for a final decision to be made on the request. His recommendation to the executive secretary of the State Department of Health and Medicine, Dr. Robert A. Brown, approved will be forwarded to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, he said.
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Another factor is that CFCA has been a pioneer in the controlling of ammonium nitrate particles, Burgen said. CFCA has successfully experimented with a filtering process on its smaller prilling tower, which is now well under legal emission standards, according to Allen Hoffman, CFCA general manager.
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