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