(2)AR 081908 Appeal - Pacific Rail Industries

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Appeal to DAP -000-794 PRI, July 22, 2008 The decision made by the Colton Planning Commission on modifying a CUP on allowing PRI discretion in utilizing any of the five auto shredder fluff disposal methods for the car shredder must be reconsidered. The most outstanding reason for revisiting and further study of this decision is that not enough information was presented to the commissioners for a thorough understanding of the problem and the impact of the change. It is not apparent as to why the data was not provided. I can surmise that the Community Development Director, Mr. Zamora either wants to keep the information level low in order to keep the commissioner's questions down or that the director does not understand the consequences of this modification and won't tackle the research. But, whatever the reason, it is a disservice to the Planning Commission and the community. This modification talks to the most critical component of the car shredder, the toxic waste stream called auto shredder fluff. This toxic will be produced from every car that enters the machine. This 700 lb. lump of untreated toxic waste exceeds the California state regulatory levels for total lead( I000mg/kg), copper (2500mg/kg), zinc (5000mg/kg), soluble lead (5.0 mg/1), soluble cadmium (1.0 mg/1), and soluble zinc (250 mg/1). PCB's, arsenic, PVC, and mercury will also be found in this waste stream. Simply stated, this shredder fluff or the liquid that carries it is poisonous to ingest, to contact your skin or to breathe into your lungs. It will kill you. If you do the math and use Mr. Siroonian's projection of shredding 1000 cars per day. Pacific Rail will be producing 3,500,000 lbs. of toxic waste weekly. That is 1750 tons of a poisonous mass that will have to be dealt with every week by Pacific Rail Industries. Mr. Zamora's staff recommendation blithely states that the fluff will be rendered non -hazardous and let the applicant make the decisions as to how it will be managed and transported. This is a wrong decision!