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T7D up," Kirkland said."They can have IRE it, as far as I'm concerned." During the Monday vote in Continued from At Sacramento, however, members of Clavecilla, a board spokesman. the waste-management board "This doesn't encompass the other instructed their staff to look into business operations." ways ef ownermof Oxford property Kirkland says he has 2 million where the tire pile sits, Ed Philbin, to 3 million tires remaining. State for the costs of the cleanup. officials say he has 6 million to 7 "The board will now take every million. available step to ensure the Both Kirkland and the state Oxford site meets all appropriate want to see the pile cleaned up. environmental-protection stan- The two sides have rubbed each dards," said Daniel G. Pennigton, other raw over the past two years chairman of the waste board. The trying to formulate a mutually board will "also pursue all avail- removal.acceptable schedule for the pile's able cost recovery and penalties to The waste-management board help pay for cleaning up this this week finally revoked Dant fire pile." IGrkland's permit to operate the Although the crackdown against Westley site, because officials felt Oxford comes in the wake of the he was not living up to a 1997 state's worst-ever tire fire, still bargain that said the tires would smoldering in a 54-acre lot south be gone by 2000. of Tracy, the waste-management Still to be determined is who board revoked the permit now lest will pay the cleanup costs. the company's insurance policy Kirkland, who has paid more than expire, Clavecilla said. Because of $1 million in the past two years missed payments, Oxford's $1 mil- to dispose of several million tires lion insurance policy is set to as part of the 1997 agreement, expire in late September, Kirkland insists the state is free to remove said- all the remaining loads from the Meanwhile, the Integrated Waste Westley lot as long as it doesn't Management Board will consider bill him for the labor. its options for disposing of Kirkland said he had hoped to Oxford's several million remaining meet the 2000 deadline but now tires even as Kirkland draws a thinks 2015 — the year set in an line in the sand. earlier agreement with the state "I'm going to continue running attorney general's office — is my business like I did yesterday more realistic. And he said that if and the day before and the day state officials want the earlier before that," Kirkland said. "The deadline, they should pay the only way I'll fight the board now cost. is if they try and charge me for "Let them come in and clean it anything:'