ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    October
    20,
    1988
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    DAN
    HEUSINKVED, County Clerk,
    )
    AC 87—25, Docket B
    County of Whiteside,
    State
    )
    (IEPA Docket No. 8302—AC)
    of Illinois,
    Respondent.
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by
    R.
    C.
    Flemal):
    This matter comes before the Board upon a March
    25,
    1987
    filing
    of an administrative citation pursuant
    to Section
    31.1 of
    the Illinois Environmental Protection Act
    (Act)
    by the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency).
    The administrative
    citation alleged that Whiteside County
    (County) violated Sections
    2l(p)(5)
    and 2l(p(l~) of. the ~ct.
    The civil penalty established
    for each of these violations
    15
    $500.00
    for each violation of
    each proylsion
    of ~ubsection
    (p)
    of Section
    21 of
    the Act, plus
    any hearing
    COStS
    1ncurred by the Board
    and the Agency, pursuant
    to Section 42(b)(4)
    of the Act.
    The County filed
    a Petition for Review with the Clerk of the
    Board on April
    29,
    1987.
    Hearing was held on October
    27,
    1987.
    On January 21,
    1988,
    the Board issued an Order which
    found that
    the County violated Sections 2l(p)(5) and 21(p)(12)
    and imposed
    a
    civil penalty
    in the amount of $1,000.
    The Board also directed
    the Agency and the Clerk
    of the Board
    to file a statement of
    hearing costs incurred,
    supported
    by affidavit and with service
    on the County.
    The Agency filed
    a statement
    of its costs
    on May 4,
    1988.
    The Clerk
    filed
    the statement of Board costs on August 16,1988.
    By Order
    of August
    18,
    the Board noted certain deficiencies
    in the Agency’s May 4,
    1988 filing.
    The Order requested
    the
    filing of
    a revised statement on or before September
    5,
    and gave
    the County leave
    to respond on or before September
    20.
    The
    Agency made its revised filing on August
    26.
    The County has
    filed no reply/objection.
    The Board finds
    that the costs
    to be assessed against
    the
    County are:
    Board Costs:
    $647.79
    Agency Costs:
    $153.17
    TOTAL:
    $801.06
    93—245
    —2—
    It
    is hereby ordered
    that within
    30 days of the date of this
    Order,
    the County shall, by certified check or money order
    payable to the State of Illinois and designated
    for deposit into
    the General Revenue Fund, pay as compensation for hearing costs
    incurred by the Board and the Agency the amount of $801.06, which
    is
    to be sent
    to:
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Fiscal Services Division
    2200 Churchill Road
    Springfield, IL
    62706
    This docket
    is hereby closed.
    Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act,
    Ill. Rev.
    Stat.
    1985 ch.
    111 1/2 par.
    1041, provides for appeal of Final
    Orders of the Board within
    35 days.
    The Rules
    of the Supreme
    Court
    of Illinois establish filing requirements.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    J.
    T. Meyer and
    M. Nardulli dissented.
    I,
    Dorothy M.
    Gunn, Clerk
    of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify that the above Order was adopted on
    the
    _________________
    day of
    ~
    ,
    1988 by a vote
    of
    ______________
    Dorothy
    W.
    Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    93—246

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