Susquehanna Co-Gen 

Annual report of Fuel Burned 

YEAR TONS TREATED WOOD BURNED 

1988 

1989 89,281 

1990 82,038 

1991 77,000 EST 

1992 116,000 EST 

1993 89,000 EST 

1994 89,500 EST 

1995 103,423 

1996 76,000 EST 

1997 98,720 

1998 97,444 

1999 76,611 

2000 110,013 

2001 122,288 

2002 113,198 

2003 111,699 

2004 114,470 

2005 116,447 

2006 116,052 

2007 118,231 

2008 93,861 

2009 99,741 

2010 94,688 

2011 72,770 YTD 

TOTAL 2,278,475 Tons burned 
Statement of William R SIK\(;kf 

I, William R. Sheeler, make the following statement in support of the petition of 

the Treated Wood Council for a determination that non-hazardous secondary treated wood 

biomass materials. as described in that petition. are not a solid waste when usecl as fuel in a 

combustion unit. 

I. I am the Business Manager for Zwicky Processing & Recycling, Inc., a 

family-owned biofuel processing and recycling facility located in Fleetwood, P A Our co:tnpany 

has operated since 1952. 

2. Zwicky's facility was built for processing non-hazardous secondary 

treated wood biomass, along with construction and demolition debris. These reclaimed materials 

are combined and ground to provide a combustion material used by cement plants, paper mills. 

and electricity generators. 

3~ As an example ofthe current scale ofZwicky's operations, its fucility 

processed 140,000 tons of non-hazardous secondary biomass during the first ten months of 2012. 

~~~- William R Sheeler 
Wheeler 

Lumber, LLC 

March 26. 2013 

STATEMENT OF JEFF PARRETT 

1. My name is Jeff Parrett. I make the following statement in support of the petition of the Treated Wood 

Council for a determination that non-hazardous secondary treated wood biomass materials, as described in that 

petition, are not a solid waste when used as a fuel in a combustion unit. 

2. My title is vice president of Wheeler Lumber, L.L.C. In the course of my work spanning 26 years in the 

wood treating business, I have gained familiarity with various types of wood products used as railroad ties, 

utility poles and bridge timbers then beneficially reused as a valuable commodity fuel. 

3. While creosote treated wood products are the best known types used for railroad ties and reused for energy 

proouction, I am also familiar with copper Naphthenate treated wood products. and dual treatments using 

creosote with borate and copper Naphthenate with borate, that are used the same way. Copper Naphthenate has 

been used off and on since the early 1900s but usage became a commercial proposition during World War II, 

when it was applied to railroad ties in conjunction with creosote due to creosote shortage. Copper Naphthenate 

has also been used for many years for utility poles, railroad ties and bridge timbers treated and sold by Wheeler 

Lumber and have more recently found a growing market acceptance as a treatment product on its own or with 

borate for railroad ties. Wheeler Lumber currently specifies, and treats with Copper Naphthenate for the state of 

New York. many other state DOTs, USFS, Railroads, along with many other customers nationwide. 

4 . Like other forms of treated wood such as those using creosote, copper Naphthenate treated wood ties are 

desirable as a fuel to electricity generators and others because of these materials' high BTU value, attractive 

economics, and superior greenhouse gas characteristics compared to fossil fuel that would otherwise be burned 

for energy generation if these valued secondary materials were not available. One example of which I am 

aware is the DTE plant in Wisconsin, which is permitted to burn copper Naphthenate, borate, and creosote 

treated wood secondary materials. 

Dated: March 26. 20 13 

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