Your other

concern was comparing your 500 tons per year of nitrous oxide to 26,000

cars. I have spoken with several people who could not relate to 500 tons

of emissions. To clarify what this tonnage equates to, I provided the

following data. Five hundred tons equals one million pounds. EPA Factsheet

420-F-00-013, dated April, 2000, states the average passenger car emits

38.2 pounds of nitrous oxide per year. Simple division reveals that your

four 210-foot stacks and 26,178 cars would each emit one million tons

of nitrous oxide per year into the environment of an area which already

fails to comply with federal air quality standards. I will continue to

use this analogy.

I never have,

nor will I ever imply that the effect of releases from four 210-foot stacks

and 26,178 cars at one foot, are equal. I'll leave that to the smart folks.

However, to state as your letter does, that your emissions will have "...

no significant impact on air quality," makes one question the federal

requirement that you mitigate your pollution somewhere else in the non-attainment

area.

If it doesn't

impact our air, why haven't you challenged the EPA requirement? If it

will have no significant impact on air quality, why did you, in a public

meeting (while attempting to lessen the fears of area residents, whom

you apparently believed to be from Fulton County) tell us that Fulton

County residents shouldn't worry about it since the prevailing winds would

blow the pollutants in the other direction. The other direction, Mr. Skizim,

is Fayette County! Fayette County citizens are human beings which you

and your studies continue to ignore.

Incidentally,

you've had considerable trouble with the facts yourselves. For instance,

originally you were to have four 180-foot stacks; now we have four 210-foot

stacks. Your literature states you were to donate over 200 acres for greenspace.

Your letter to me dated July 2, 2001, now states you will dedicate approximately

"100 acres or more" of greenspace.

There are many

more misstatements and contradictory statements which will be discussed

at other times and other forums. In the meantime, it would be reassuring

if you would worry more about the safety, health and welfare of your potential

neighbors rather than worrying about maintaining your "corporate

spin."

Greg Dunn

Fayette

County Commission Chairman

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