ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
June 10,
1981
ILLINOIS
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY,
Complainant,
v.
)
PCB 80—182
~‘1ASTE
CONTROL,
INC.,
a
Delaware corporation, and
)
IRVIN W.
STEVENS, an
)
individual,
)
Respondents.
CHRISTINE ZEMAN, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, APPEARED ON BEHALF OF
THE COMPLAINANT.
ROSENBERG, ROSENBERG, BICKES, JOHNSON & RICHARDSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW
(MR. JEFFREY D. RICHARDSON,
OF COUNSEL), APPEARED ON BEHALF OF
THE RESPONDENT.
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by N.E.Werner):
This matter comes before the Board on the October
3,
1980
Complaint brought by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
(“Agency”).
*
Count
I of the Complaint alleged that, on specified occasions
between April
1,
1979 and October 3,
1980, the Respondents accepted
special wastes
(such as liquid wastes,
sludges, and solid wastes) at
their solid waste management site
(“site”) without having a supple-
mental permit from the Agency in violation of Rules
210,
301,
302,
and 310(b) of Chapter
7:
Solid Waste Regulations
(“Chapter 7”) and
Sections 21(a) and 21(b) of the Illinois Environmental Protection
Act (“Act”).
Count II alleged that, intermittently from November
1,
1979
until October
3,
1980, the Respondents failed to properly unload
refuse
(i.e., to deposit all refuse into the toe of the fill or into
the bottom of the trench) in violation of Rules 301 and 303(a) of
Chapter
7 and Sections 21(a)
and 21(b) of the Act.
Count III alleged that, from November 1,
1979 until October
3,
1980, the Respondents sometimes failed to adequately spread and
compact refuse as rapidly as it was deposited in violation of
Rules 301 and 303(b) of Chapter 7 and Sections 21(a)
and 21(b) of
the Act.
*This
is a case of first impression pertaining to special waste manifests.
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Count IV alleged that,
from April
1, 1979 until October
3,
1980,
the Respondents occasionally failed to provide sufficient equipment,
personnel, and supervision at the site in violation of Rules 301
arid
304 of Chapter
7 and Sections
21(a) and 21(b) of the Act.
Count V alleged that, on certain dates between July 1,
1979
until October
3,
1980, the Respondents failed to place adequate
daily cover on refuse in violation of Rules 301 and 305(a)
of
Chapter 7 and Sections 21(a) and 21(b)
of the Act.
Count VI alleged that,
intermittently from July
1,
1979 until.
October
3,
1980, the Respondents failed to apply adequate final cover
over certain sections of the fill in violation of Rules
301 and 305(c)
of Chapter 7 and Sections 21(a)
and 21(b) of the Act.
Count VII alleged that, on various specified occasions between
October 1,
1979 and October
3,
1980,
the Respondents violated certai.n
conditions in their Operating Permit by not having proper dikes,
grade stakes, and litter fences in violation of Rules 301 and 302 of
Chapter
7 and Sections 21(a) and 21(b) of the Act.
Count VIII alleged that, intermittently from October
1,
1979
until October 3,
1980, the Respondents failed to collect all litter
by the end of each working day in violation of Rules 301 and 306 of
Chapter
7 and Sections 21(a) and 21(b) of the Act.
Count IX alleged that, on ten specified dates between August
1,
1979 and October
3,
1980, the Respondents failed to require
a
completed,
signed manifest on special wastes that were accepted at
the site in violation of Rules 302(a) and 501(E)
of Chapter
9:
Special Waste Hauling Regulations (“Chapter
9”) and Sections 21(a)
and 21(b) of the Act.
Count X alleged that,
on December
21, 1979, the Respondents
accepted a special waste that was permitted and destined for a site
other than the Respondents’ landfill as the final destination point,
as indicated by the manifest, in violation of Rule 501(C) of Chapter
9
and Sections 21(a)
and 21(b)
of the Act.
A hearing was held on April
20,
1981 at which the substance of
the proposed settlement agreement was presented.
The parties filed
their executed Stipulation and Proposal for Settlement on May 18,
1981.
Accordingly, the Board finds that this procedure was
in
substantial compliance with the Board’s Procedural Rule 331.
Waste Control,
Inc.
(the “Company”),
a Delaware corporation
which has been licensed to do business in Illinois since October 22,
1974, operates a sanitary landfill on about 35 acres of leased
property at 960 Moffett Lane in Decatur, Macon County,
Illinois
pursuant to Agency Operating Permit No. 1976—28—OP.
From
December 30,
1976 until January
1,
1981,
Mr.
Irvin W.
Stevens
(“Mr. Stevens”) has operated the refuse disposal site for the Company.
(Stip.
2).
Mr. Stevens “became the sole stockholder of Waste Control
through a purchase agreement reached February 8,
1979”.
(Stip.
2).
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All of the capital
stock in the Company was transferred from
Mr. Stevens to Mr.
Gerald
B.
Reynolds on January
1,
1981.
(Stip.
3;
See: Exhibit A).
The purchase agreement between Mr. Stevens and
Mr. Reynolds indicates that “Stevens relinquishes all right to
operate said site and to benefit financially from the operation of
the site by Waste Control,
Inc. and Gerald B.
Reynolds.”
(Stip.
3).
On January
20, 1981, the Agency “was sent notice of Stevens’
relinquished interest in Waste Control,
Inc. by David L. Beck of
Andrews’ Environmental Engineering,
Inc.”
(Stip.
3).
The proposed settlement agreement provides that the Respondents
admit that the violations delineated in Counts
I through X of the
Complaint did occur on one or more (but not all
of) the specified
dates alleged in the Complaint.
(Stip.
10).
The parties have
stipulated that the Respondents have subsequently “made steady
improvement toward compliance.”
(Stip.
12).
Additionally, the “Respondents represent that all of the capital
stock of Waste Control, Inc. has heretofore been sold on an escrow
agreement, which sale disposes of all
interest, right of control or
financial benefit in Waste Control, Inc.
a corporation, on the part
of the Respondent Irvin W.
Stevens, with the exception of the
forfeiture provisions contained therein which specify that in the
event of failure or refusal of the purchaser of said stock to carry
out the terms of the agreement forfeiture of the agreement results.”
(Stip.
11).
Moreover,
Mr. Stevens “represents that he is not now and does
not intend in the future or at any time to engage in the landfill
business in the State of Illinois or any other state” and “that the
only possible involvement” of Mr. Stevens in the landfill business
at any future date would be the result of “a breach in forfeiture”
of the escrow agreement “with respect to the sale of the capital
stock of Waste Control,
Inc.”
(Stip.
11).
Furthermore, the Respondents have agreed to jointly and severally
pay a stipulated penalty of $1,500.00
In evaluating this enforcement action and proposed settlement
agreement, the Board has taken into consideration all the facts and
circumstances in light of the specific criteria delineated in
Section 33(c)
of the Act and finds the settlement agreement acceptable
under Procedural Rule 331.
The Board finds that the Respondents, Waste Control,
Inc.
and
Irvin W. Stevens, have violated Rules 210,
301,
302, 303(a),
303(h),
304,
305(a),
305(c),
306,
and 310(b) of Chapter 7:
Solid Waste
Regulations;
Rules 302(a),
501(C), and 501(E) of Chapter
9:
Special
Waste Hauling Regulations, and Sections 21(a) and 21(b) of the
Illinois Environmental Protection Act.
The stipulated penalty of
$1,500.00 will be jointly and severally assessed against the
Respondents.
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This Opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of fact and
conclusions of law in this matter.
ORDER
It is the Order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board that:
1.
The Respondents, Waste Control,
Inc. and Irvin W. Stevens,
have violated Rules 210,
301,
302,
303(a),
303(b),
304,
305(a), 305(c),
306, and 310(b) of Chapter
7:
Solid Waste Regulations; Rules 302(a),
501(C), and 501(E) of Chapter
9:
Special Waste Hauling Regulations,
and Sections 21(a)
and 21(b) of the Illinois Environmental Protection
Act.
2.
Respondent Irvin W.
Stevens shall cease and desist from
further violations.
3.
Within 60 days of the date of this Order, Respondents
Waste Control,
Inc. and Irvin W.
Stevens shall, by certified check
or money order payable to the State of Illinois, jointly and
severally pay the stipulated penalty of $1,500.00 which is to be
sent to:
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Fiscal Services Division
2200 Churchill Road
Springfield,
Illinois
62706
4.
The Respondents shall comply with all the terms and
conditions of the Stipulation and Proposal for Settlement filed on
May 18,
1981, which is incorporated by reference as if fully set
forth herein.
I, Christan
L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board, hereby certify that the above Opinion and Order were adopted
on the
1o~
day of
_____________,
1981 by a vote of
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Christan L.
Moff r?/,Clerk
Illinois Pollutiori~óntrolBoard
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