ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June 20, 2002
     
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
     
    Complainant,
     
    v.
     
    GULCO CORPORATION, a Delaware
    corporation a/k/a GUTMANN LEATHER
    COMPANY, INC.,
     
    Respondent.
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    PCB 99-192
    (Enforcement - Air)
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by R.C. Flemal):
     
    On June 30, 1999, the Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the People of the
    State of Illinois (People), filed a complaint against Gulco Corporation (Gulco).
    See
    415 ILCS
    5/31(c)(1) (2000); 35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.204. The People allege that Gulco violated Sections
    9(a), 9(b), 39.5(6)(b) of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/9(a), (b), 415
    ILCS 5/39.5(6)(b)), 35 Ill. Adm. Code 201.141, 201.142, 201.143, 205.310(a), and 218.926
    of the Board’s air pollution regulations.
    1 The People further allege that Gulco violated these
    provisions by failing to obtain a construction and operating permit, causing air pollution,
    operating without a Clean Air Act Permit, and failing to submit a timely earned reduction
    management system application. The complaint concerns Gulco’s leather manufacturing
    facility at 1503-21 Webster Avenue, Chicago, Cook County.
     
    On June 11, 2002, the People and Gulco filed a stipulation and proposed settlement,
    accompanied by a request for relief from the hearing requirement of Section 31(c)(1) of the
    Act (415 ILCS 5/31(c)(1) (2000)). This filing is authorized by Section 31(c)(2) of the Act (415
    ILCS 5/31(c)(2) (2000)).
    See
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.300(a). Under the proposed stipulation,
    Gulco admits the violations regarding Sections 9(b) and 39.5(6)(b) of the Act, and 35 Ill. Adm.
    Code 201.142, 201.143, and 205.310(a) and agrees to pay a civil penalty of $15,000.
     
    Unless the Board determines that a hearing is needed, the Board must cause notice of
    the stipulation, proposed settlement, and request for relief from the hearing requirement. Any
    person may file a written demand for hearing within 21 days after receiving the notice. If
    anyone timely files a written demand for hearing, the Board will deny the parties’ request for
    relief and hold a hearing. 415 ILCS 5/31(c)(2) (2000); 35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.300(b), (c).
    The Board directs the Clerk of the Board to provide the required notice.
    1 The Board notes that a violation of 35 Ill. Adm. Code 270.201(c) of the Environmental
    Protection Agency rules was also alleged.
     
     
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    IT IS SO ORDERED.
     
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the
    Board adopted the above order on June 20, 2002, by a vote of 7-0.
     
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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