ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL
    BOARD
    August
    2,
    1984
    MIDWEST SOLVENTS COMPANY
    OF ILLINOIS,
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 84—5
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    DISSENTING OPINION (by
    J.
    D. Dumelle):
    The Board majority has dismissed the June 29,
    1984 Motion to
    Extend Variance for want of an affidavit.
    An alternate action
    could have been to hold the motion to the next meeting and again
    by telephone request an affidavit,
    Or the Board could have
    docketed the motion as a new variance and asked to have it con-
    formed to the requirements for variance petitions.
    My concern is that an Illinois industry may now feel from
    this Board action that form is being worshiped over substance.
    Decisions to stay in Illinois or to expand in Illinois are
    influenced by the perception of agency attitudes toward industry.
    Illinois is a major industrial state and all of us should work to
    keep it SO.
    I,
    Dorothy M.
    Gunn, Clerk of the
    Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, he;~ycertify that the above Dissenting Opinion was filed
    on the
    4~
    day of
    v~-,4.-
    ,
    1984.
    ~‘~zL1
    ~
    Dorothy M. ~unn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    59-257

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