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email:
Mark_Erzen@K-W.COM
February 11,2005
STATE OF ILLINOIS
Pollution Control Board
BY FEDERAL EXPRESS
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Fiscal Services Division
1021
North Grand Avenue East
Springfield, illinois
62794
ATTENTION:
Kevin
Bryant
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Dear Mr. Byrant:
Please find enclosed two checks in compliance with the requirements of the Order and Opinion of
the illinois
Pollution
Control Board
dated
March
20,
20031
in
the case
entitled
People of the
State
of
Illinois
v. State Oil Company, et al.,
Case No. PCB 97-103.
RE:
State of Illinois
v.
State Oil,
et al.,
PCB 97-103
The first check relates to the following requirement:
Check Information:
Bank One Official Check Dated
2/1/05,
Check Number 928003957
Check Amount:
$20,000.00
Payee:
Environmental Protection
Trust Fund
Purpose ofPayment:
Payment by Charles Abraham, Josephine Abraham,
and
Millstream Service, Inc. of Civil Penalties per
3/20/2003 Order and Opinion of the Illinois Pollution
Control Board, page 27, paragraph 4
Information For
Application of
Payment:
Case Number: PCB
97-103
Case Name: People ofthe State of Illinois
v. State Oil
Company, et al.
Payees: Charles
Abraham, Josephine Abraham, and
Millstream Service, Inc.
Payee’s EIN:
322-22-9198
A. BRUCE WHITE
BARBARA ANNE MAGEL
MARK D. ERZEN
JOHN
W. KALICH
CHRISTOPHER
W. NEWCOMB
The payment date was extended
due to appeals to February
14,
2005.
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Attention: Kevin Bryant
February 11,2005
Page -2-
The second check relates to the following requirement:
Information For
Application of
Payment:.
Karaganis, White & Magel Ltd. Client Fund Trust
Account,
Dated 2/11/05, Check Number
1304
Case Number: PCB 97-103
Case Name: People of the State of illinois v. State
Oil Company, et al.
Payees:
Charles Abraham, Josephine Abraham,
Millstream Service, Inc., William Anest, Peter Anest,
and
State Oil Company
Payees’
ETN: not applicable (multiple parties)
The other payment required by the Order and Opinion of the Board (involving a civil penalty to
be
paid by
William
Anest,
Peter
Anest,
and
State
Oil
Company)
has,
we understand,
already
been made
under separate cover.
Please call me if you have~
any questions.
Thank you.
MDE/ms
Enclosures: checks noted above
cc:
Chuck and Josephine Abraham
John Baumgartner, Esq.
Lou Bland, Esq.
Mark Gurnik,
Esq., IEPA
9erald T. Karr, Esq., Assistant Attorney General
/Dorothy M.
Gunn, Clerk of the IPCB
Barbara Magel, Esq.
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Sincerely,
Mark Erzen
Check Information:
Check Amount:
$86,652.50
Payee:
Environmental Protection Trust Fund
Purpose ofPayment:
Payment by Charles Abraham, Josephine Abraham,
Milistream Service, Inc., William Anest, Peter Anest,
and State Oil Company ofillinois Environmental
Protection Agency Remediation
Costs of
$86,652.50
per 3/20/2003 Order and Opinion of the illinois
Pollution Control Board, page 27, paragraph 3
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
S’I~I’EOF
ILLINOIS
Lisa Madigan
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December 22, 2004
Mark Erzen, Esquire
John Baumgartner, Esquire
Karaganis & White
Churchill, Baumgartner & Quinn, Ltd.
414 North Orleans Street, Suite 810
Two South Whitney
Chicago, Illinois
60610
Box 284
Grayslake, Illinois
60030
RE:
People v. State Oil,
et aL
PCB 97-103
Dear Counsel:
Consistent
with
the telephone
conversation of today,
Wednesday
December 22,
2004, between Mark Erzen, Bill Ingersoll and Gerald Karr, it is the position ofthe Illinois
Attorney General’s Office and the Illinois EPA that the penalty and costs ordered by the
Illinois Pollution Control
Board in
the above-referenced matter are
due within sixty (60)
days of the Illinois Supreme Court mandate which issued on December
16, 2004 or on
or
before February
14, 2005.
Please feel free to call with any questions.
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