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“Wacko” Monitoring System Stressing that she was not questioning Kuncewicz's integrity, Cheri Woodard still maintained that it’s “wacko" to allow the owner of the tannery to conduct the monthly monitoring reports required by the SWCB. She maintained that anyone can read EPA standards and falsify reports to meet those standards. Kuncewicz reported that two weeks ago, he visited one of the world's ten largest tanneries in Italy, primarily involved in processing calf and goat hides. “There was only one area in the plant where I could smell an odor. In the rest of the plant, there was nothing striking and outside, I could smell nothing at all."
An attorney representing Kuncewicz, Dan Shaner from the Fairfax firm of Hazel, Beckhorn and Hanes, noted in the wrap-up of his client’s petition, that Kuncewicz was asking for fish and reptile skins only, not tanning of light leathers.
He emphasized that the supervisors were not holding a permit hearing, only deciding whether to allow tanning of fish and reptile skins as a permitted use in an industrial zone. Kuncewicz will have to meet state and federal regulations as well as anti-pollution criteria in the zoning ordinance’s article 13. “We're only asking that we be allowed to proceed,” the attorney said, adding that it was not economically feasible to go further without the necessary ordinance amendment that would allow the tannery once all other state, federal and local conditions are met. Even with the amendment, he said, “it may well be that this use will not ever be conducted on this site.”
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Police Power
Chairman Luke said that it will become local and state government’s responsibility as well as the owner’s if something should go wrong at the tannery. Should
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