ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September 3, 2009
    COUNTY OF LASALLE
    Complainant,
    v.
    ERNEST W. FOSTER,
    Respondent.
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    AC 09-52
    (Site Code No. 0998055002)
    (Administrative Citation)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by S. D. Lin):
    On June 10, 2009, County of LaSalle (County) filed an administrative citation against
    Ernest W. Foster.
    See
    415 ILCS 5/31.1 (2006); 35 Ill. Adm. Code 108. The administrative
    citation concerns Mr. Foster’s residential property located at 1065 North 21st Road in Deerfield,
    LaSalle County. The property is commonly known to the Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency (Agency) as the “Ernest W. Foster Property” and is designated with Site Code No.
    0998055002. The County alleged that on May 8, 2009, Mr. Foster violated Section 21(p)(1) of
    the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/21(p)(1) (2006)) by causing or allowing
    the open dumping of waste in a manner resulting in litter at Mr. Foster’s LaSalle County site.
    On August 20, 2009, the County’s Director of Environmental Services and Land Use
    Department, Michael E. Harsted, sent a letter to the Board requesting that the Board dismiss the
    administrative citation. In the letter, Mr. Harsted states that due to the cleanup that Mr. Foster
    has already undertaken, he “firmly believes … that a full cleanup and compliance to the Act will
    be completed by October 20, 2009.”
    The Board therefore grants the County’s request to in effect withdraw the administrative
    citation, dismisses this case, and closes the docket.
    See
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 108.402.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, John Therriault, Assistant Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the
    Board adopted the above order on September 3, 2009, by a vote of 4-0.
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    John Therriault, Assistant Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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