ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL
    BOARD
    February
    4,
    1982
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Complainant,
    )
    V.
    )
    PCB 79—35
    CHEVY CHASE SEWER AND WATER CO.,
    et
    al.,
    )
    Respondent.
    INTERIM ORDER OF THE BOARD (by J.
    Anderson)
    The Board’s Order of November 5,
    1981 required Chevy Chase
    to submit “a copy,
    if
    any,
    of i’s written acceptance of
    Lake
    County’s plan and conditions for accepting ownership of the Chevy
    Chase sewer system.”
    In lieu of an acceptance,
    on February 2,
    1982 Chevy Chase
    filed a letter outlining progress made in its
    negotiations with Lake County.
    In brief, William Johnson reports that he met with
    representatives of Lake County’s Department of Public Works
    on January
    7 and
    20, 1982 to discuss each party’s respective
    problems and responsibilities.
    At the
    latter meeting, Mr. Johnson
    was informed that “the Lake County Public Service Committee had
    met on January 14,
    1982,
    to discuss
    a contractual
    service agreement
    between
    Lake
    County Public Works and Chevy Chase Sewer and Water
    Company”
    and that he would be “immediately apprised as the County
    moves forward with drafting of the agreement’1.
    Since issuance of
    its original Opinion and Order of February
    19,
    1981, the Board has exercised jurisdiction to facilitate the
    reaching of an agreement for regional treatment of the sewage
    currently treated by the Chevy Chase plant.
    On November
    5,
    1981
    the Board believed that an agreement could be executed within 90
    days.
    Although the parties have made progress,
    it
    is clear that
    the Board underestimated the time needed by and for Lake County
    and Chevy Chase to satisfy administrative and other requirements,
    particularly given the intervening period for possible appeal of
    the Board’s last Order, and the Christmas holidays.
    The Board
    feels that,
    at this point,
    it cannot further facilitate the
    reaching of an agreement by the parties,
    and that a final order
    calling
    for abatement of the pollution problem must be entered in
    this three year old action.
    It is, after all,
    the responsibility
    of Chevy Chase to seek out and implement
    a solution to the
    situation it has created.
    45—251
    2
    If an executed agreement between Chevy Chase and Lake County
    is not filed within 60 days of the date of this Order,
    the Board
    will close this action by entry of a cease and desist order
    against
    Chevy
    Chase.
    IT
    IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan L. Moffett,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board, hereby certify that the above Order was adopted on
    the
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    day of
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    1982 by a vote of
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    Christan
    L. Moffeti~4/Qftrk
    Illinois Pollution c~j~/rolBoard
    45—252

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