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Emissions (Spreckels Sugar) Page three carbon kiln emission violation. The application was evaluated and accepted as an adequate means of abating the violation, and the requested Authority to Construct was issued on May 27, 1977. On April 26, 1977 the District was notified by the Air Resources Board (ARB) that Assemblyman Carmen Perino had met with Mr. James Morgester, ARB Chief of Enforcement, to discuss odors emanating from Spreckels Sugar's Manteca plant. Mr. Morgester stated that Assemblyman Perino complained about the odors from Spreckels Sugar and requested that the ARB take action at the state level to abate the odor problem. Mr. Morgester further stated that he informed Mr. Perino that the local District has primary responsibility for controlling pollution from stationary sources in San Joaquin County and that the local District would have to fail to fulfill its statuatory obligation before the ARB could take action on the matter. However, in response to Mr. Perino' s complaint, the ARB scheduled an investigation for April 27, 1977. The District was invited to participate in the investigation. This was the District's first formal complaint of odors from Spreckels. On the morning of April 27, 1977, Richard Johnson and Jerry White of the Air Resources Board, Larry Nash of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board and Joe Spano of the San Joaquin County Air Pollution Control District met with Stuart Anderson, David Voit, and Frank Nelson of Spreckels Sugar. The Spreckels representatives discussed three potential sources of odor: the beet pulp driers, the cattle feedlot, and the wastewater ponds. They stated that the odor from the beet pulp drier was a generally unobjectionable odor similar to the odor of a baked potato. They explained that the feeding of beet residue to cattle traded the odor which would occur if the beet residue were merely piled on the property and left to decay for the less objectionable odor of a small feedlot. They also explained the wastewater ponding capabilities , the water flow pattern through the ponds, the methods used for aerating the ponds , and the program of using the water to irrigate orchard and field crops as a final disposal method. They also explained that Spreckels opposed development of property adjacent to the company's property, thereby precipitating the odor complaints as a retaliatory tactic. 6/2/77