ILLINOIS

POLLUTION CONTROL

BOARD

October

28,

1976

PEOPLE

OF

THE

STATE

PCB 74—410

PHILADELPHIA

QUARTZ

Respondent.

INTERIM ORDER OF THE

BOARD

(by Mr.

Zeitlin):

On

May

II,

1976

the

Attorney General filed a Motion to Take

Interlocutory

Appeal

in

this matter.

In an Interim Order entered

May

20,

1976,

this

Board granted that Motion, and Ordered response

to the issues raised

in that Motion,

Respondent~sBrief was

subsequently filed

on June

4,

1976.

On June 29,

1976

the Attorney General filed a pleading entitled,

Stipulation Requesting a

Stay of Consideration and Decision of

Complainant’s Interlocutory

Appeal.

That

pleading

stated

that

the

parties were enqaged

in

additional settlement proceedings, and asked

that our consideration

of the matter be deferred pending completion

of such settlement

attempts.

The parties stated that they would,

within three weeks,

notify the Board that either an agreement had

been reached or that the

parties would request a Board decision on

the Interlocutory Appeal.

In

fact,

no communications

have been received by the Board

from either party

to

this litigation.

No explanation whatsoever

has been forthcoming

for this lengthy delay.

We shall assume

that this delay was not purposeful,

and

is

the

result

of

as

impic

error

by

one

or

both

parties.

To

aJ

low

for

correction

of

that

error,

the parties shall, within fourteen

(14)

days

of

the

daLe

of

this

Order, apprise

the

Board

of

the

status

of

this matter~

I,

Christen

L,

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board, hereby

ce~t~fythe above Interim Order was adopted

on the

day of

~

1976,

by a vote of

~

Illinois

Pollution

rol

Board