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December 9, 2019 City of Chicago, Department of Public Health Attn December 9, 2019 City of Chicago, Department of Public Health Attn: Environmental Permitting and Inspections 333 South State Street, Room 200 Chicago, IL 60604 Re: Supplemental Comments on Proposed Rules For Large Recycling Facilities To Whom It May Concern: This letter provides supplemental comments on the Department of Health’s Proposed Rules For Large Recycling Facilities (“Proposed Rules”). These supplemental comments provide additional information in support of comments previously submitted on June 21, 2019 (“the June 21 Comments”)1, on behalf of the Southeast Environmental Task Force (“SETF”) and the Chicago South East Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke, active community groups dedicated to improving the Calumet neighborhood’s environment; the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (“LVEJO”), which is committed to organizing with the Little Village community to accomplish environmental justice, and to achieve the self- determination of immigrant, low- income, and working-class families; and the Natural Resources Defense Council (“NRDC”) and our roughly 10,000 members and activists in the City of Chicago, including those who reside on the Southeast Side and along the I-55 Southwest corridor. We appreciate the opportunity to provide these supplemental comments. Introduction In the June 21 Comments, we urged the Chicago Department of Public Health (“CDPH”) to strengthen its Proposed Rules in order to better protect Chicago’s residents, including several environmental justice communities, from the well-documented health and environmental hazards presented by operations of large recycling facilities in the city. We write now to supplement those comments with respect to auto shredder residue (“ASR”) and torch cutting, both of which require more stringent regulations than those proposed by CDPH in order to protect public health and the environment in nearby communities. Additional Comments Concerning ASR As set out in the June 21 Comments, ASR poses significant threats to human health and the environment. Air impacts from ASR include inhalable toxic heavy metals, for example hexavalent chromium, as well as volatile organic compounds, which also contain a variety of volatile toxic air contaminants. These contaminants cause cancer, asthma, and damage to the naval passages and skin.2 We therefore urged CDPH to modify its Proposed Rule to require that 1 Ex. 1, Comments on Proposed Rules for Large Recycling Facilities. (June 21, 2019) (attached). 2 Ex. 1 at 3. 1 all recycling operations that involve ASR, including processing, storage, staging, conveyance, and transport, be fully enclosed and employ robust air pollution and fire protection controls as well as other needed protective measures.3 We now supplement those comments with additional information concerning the toxicity of ASR and the resulting need to properly treat and store ASR. We submit these supplemental comments with respect to ASR given multiple industry commenters’ assertions that “ASR is nonhazardous” and does not pose a leaching hazard. In addition to the metals noted above, ASR contains levels of lead, copper and zinc in finely divided form that may exceed health protective concentrations.4 ASR may also contain hazardous levels of cadmium and PCBs.5 The toxic metals and/or chemicals in ASR pose dangers both as components of fugitive dust throughout the recycling process6 and through leakage during storage7 and transport.8 The hazards of ASR can be reduced through treatment using methods to stabilize and/or solidify the waste and, as urged in the June 21 Comments, the Proposed Rules should require that recycling facilities designate on-site and off-site methods that will be used to address ASR wastes.9 Because of the particular toxicity of untreated ASR, which some facilities covered by the proposed rules will generate and handle, the Proposed Rules should be modified to prohibit any storage of untreated ASR on-site.10 That is, all ASR must be treated onsite (after being moved within the facility via totally enclosed handling steps) or immediately shipped offsite for treatment. Further, while treating of ASR reduces the mobility of toxic heavy metals in the residue, it does not completely eliminate the toxic characteristics of the metals.11 The Proposed Rules should, as set forth in our original comments, therefore be modified to require enclosure of all ASR throughout the recycling process, including during processing, conveyance, storage 3 Ex.1 at 17-21. 4 Ex. 2, California Department of Toxic Substances Control, DRAFT Evaluation and Analysis of Metal Shredding Facilities and Metal Shredder Wates, January 2018 at 41-42, available at https://dtsc.ca.gov/wp- content/uploads/sites/31/2017/01/Metal-Shredder-Analysis-DRAFT.pdf (“DTSC Metal Shredding January 2018”)(As noted in the June 21 Comments, this report is marked “DRAFT” and “Do not cite or quote.” A final report has not been published; the Draft is cited here because of the important scope of the work and relevant draft findings.) 5 Id. 6 See, for example, Ex. 3, Arturo J. Blanco, Loren Raun and Don Richter, Houston Department of Health & Human Services, Bureau of Pollution Control and Prevention, “What is actually emitted from Area Sources: Results of a Special Study of Metals Recyclers,” available at https://www3.epa.gov/ttnamti1/files/2012conference/3BRaun.pdf ._ 7 Ex. 1 at 21; Ex. 2 at 50-51. 8 Ex. 2 at 52. 9 Ex. 1 at 21. 10 As noted in the June 21 Comments, ASR is a special waste under Illinois regulations and all aspects of the ASR waste stream – both untreated and treated – should be properly scored and characterized for their toxicity and managed appropriately during collection, treatment, conveyance, storage and transport. Ex. 4, Illinois EPA, “Do I Have a Special Waste?” available at https://www2.illinois.gov/epa/topics/waste-management/waste- disposal/special-waste/Pages/do-i-have.aspx . See also, 35 Ill. Admin. Code 808. Further, 11 Ex. 2 at 43. 2 and transportation. Further, the Proposed Rules should be modified to ensure that storage of treated ASR is conducted on surfaces and in containers that will prevent leakage to ground water or surface water through run-off.12 Additional Comments Concerning Torch Cutting We submit supplemental comments on the impacts to air quality from torch cutting given industry commenter’s assertion that torch cutting is an “inconsequential” source of air pollution (and thus should be omitted from the required air quality modeling analysis). Torch cutting is used in the recycling process to break apart large metal pieces. Torch cutting typically uses gas, but torches may also use plasma or powder.13 14 Torch cutting vaporizes metal, resulting in airborne toxic metals as well as dust and opacity (the latter potentially in excess of state opacity standards) and, depending on the type of torch used, may create large amounts of smoke and noise.15 Torch cutting is especially concerning because it generates fine particulate matter air pollution (PM 2.5).16 Even short term exposure to particulate matter air pollution is associated with morbidity and mortality, especially with respect to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5).17 Metals generated in fine particles by torch cutting include nickel, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, 12 See Ex. 2 at 111 (Noting that the study’s conclusion that chemically treated metal shredder residue (“CTMSR”) found no greater impact from landfills that handled CTMSR assumed containment of the waste in lined portions of the landfills: “Because DTSC’s conclusions are based on comparative analyses using data from landfills that are currently receiving CTMSR, DTSC’s conclusions would continue to be supported only if the solid waste landfills to which CTMSR is sent meet the same general description as those to which it has been sent historically. The landfills that have historically received CTMSR have disposed or used as ADC in a composite-lined portion of their solid waste landfill unit which meet all requirements applicable to disposal of municipal solid waste in California after October 9, 1993, and the landfills are authorized to accept it by the appropriate [water quality control authority].”). 13 Ex. 5, OSHA, Guidance for the Identification and Control of Safety and Health Hazards in Metal Scrap Recycling at 9-10 (“OSHA Guidance”), available at https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3348-metal-scrap-recycling.pdf. 14 Torch cutting should be considered distinct from “cutting,” which is considered an “insignificant” activity under IAC Section 201.210, available at http://www.ilga.gov/commission/jcar/admincode/035/035002010F02100R.html The regulatory history of Section 201.210 points to insignificant activities being minor sources of air pollution that do not contribute significantly to the health and environmental goals underlying Title V of the Clean Air Act. See 415 ILCS Section 5/39.5/(5)(w), available at http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?ActID=1585&ChapterID=36&SeqStart=44100000&SeqEnd=4560000 0; Illinois Pollution Control Board Rulemaking R94-14 (June 1994) (“IPBC Rulemaking”) available at https://pcb.illinois.gov/Cases/GetCaseDetailsByID?caseID=4982 . In contrast, as detailed above, torch cutting at recycling facilities contributes significant hazardous air pollution in communities located nearby and research indicates that increased fine size particulate matter generated by torch cutting increases cancer risk in those communities. See above at p.3 and Ex. 6. Further, testimony during the IPCB Rulemaking by an Illinois EPA representative strongly suggested that even insignificant activities that in fact have a significant environmental impact may be regulated as part of a CAAPP permit. Ex. 6, Testimony of Christopher Romaine during IPCB Rulemaking at 8-9 (June 1994) (“Based on the list of insignificant activities submitted in a CAAPP application, the Agency or USEPA may find during the course of permitting that an activity should not qualify as insignificant.”). 15 OSHA Guidance at 11; see also Ex. 7, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Violation Notice to RJ Industrial Recycling (June 25, 2016), available at https://www.deq.state.mi.us/aps/downloads/SRN/N7885/N7885_VN_20160525.pdf.
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