ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    December 20, 2001
     
     
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
     
    Complainant,
     
    v.
     
    BERNIE C. MORRIS,
     
    Respondent.
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    PCB 02-73
    (Enforcement – Water)
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
     
    On December 11, 2001, the Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the People of the
    State of Illinois (People), filed a complaint against Bernie C. Morris (Morris).
    See
    415 ILCS
    5/31(c)(1) (2000); 35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.204. The People allege that Morris violated Sections
    12(a), (b), (c), and (f) of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/12(a), (b), (c), and
    (f) (2000)), and 35 Ill. Adm. Code Sections 309.102(a) and 309.202(a) of the Board’s water
    pollution regulations. The People further allege that Morris violated these provisions by
    constructing a sewer extension without the required construction permit, and engaging in
    construction activities that threatened or allowed offsite discharge of contaminants without a
    permit. The complaint concerns Morris’s development of Wood Ridge Subdivision, north of the
    City of Chrisman, Illinois Highway 1, Edgar County.
     
    The Board accepts the complaint for hearing.
    See
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.212(c). A
    respondent’s failure to file an answer to a complaint within 60 days after receiving the complaint
    may have severe consequences. Generally, if Morris fails within that timeframe to file an answer
    specifically denying, or asserting insufficient knowledge to form a belief of, a material allegation
    in the complaint, the Board will consider Morris to have admitted the allegation. 35 Ill. Adm.
    Code 103.204(d). The Board directs the hearing officer to proceed expeditiously to hearing.
     
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
     
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the Board
    adopted the above order on December 20, 2001, by a vote of 7-0.
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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