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TIRE was not accepted. Bungay said the combined <br /> "It could have been some- pile at Westley has swelled so <br /> thing as simple as a missing big that divider lanes and fire <br /> signature or that type of thing," breaks have been filled up, <br /> Continued from Bt Lamoureux said. "There's no much like what happened to <br /> said. The company incinerates evidence at this point that the the tire pile at S.F. Royster Tine <br /> millions of tires there annually, company has filed a new Disposal in Tracy. <br /> then sells energy generated application. Royster's 54-acre lot, which <br /> Officials from Oxford and <br /> from the burning. grew to more than 7 million <br /> Modesto Energy has aper- <br /> other tire yards say Modesto <br /> tires,Energy was anticipating a ' garnered national atten- <br /> mit to maintain a standing pile smooth approval process and tion when it sparked into an <br /> of 400,000 tires at the Westley began taking in more tires inferno Aug. 7. The pile, smol- <br /> lot, Lamoureux said. In shortly after filing its permit dering ever since, is the biggest <br /> September, the company sub- application. tire fire in California history. <br /> mitted an application to the p"When I talked with the "Given the circumstances of <br /> Waste Board to increase the people at (Modesto Energy), the last few months, it's hard <br /> size of the pile, records show, they told me the permit would to imagine any facility letting <br /> that application was rejected be a slam dunk," said Michael itself outgrow its permit," <br /> Oct. 9. Bungay, owner of CEM Energy, Bungay said. "And what's going <br /> Lamoureux could not say the disposal company that sold on in Westley is a fairly fla- <br /> Wednesday why the application Oxford to Kirkland in 1988. grant violation." <br />