ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    July 25,
    1991
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Complainant,
    )
    v.
    )
    AC 90-56
    (Docket B)
    )
    (IEPA Docket No.
    295-AC-90)
    )
    (Administrative Citation)
    STEVE GILBERT
    )
    Respondent.
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J. Anderson):
    This matter comes to the Board on an Administrative Citation
    filed by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (“Agency”)
    pursuant to the Illinois Environmental Protection Act
    (hereinafter “the Act”)
    (Ill. Rev. Stat.
    1989,
    ch.
    111 1/2, par.
    1001
    et.
    seq.).
    The citation
    was
    issued July 6,
    1990 and alleges
    that Respondent,
    Steve Gilbert,
    is in violation of Section 21(q)
    (1)
    of the Act for causing or allowing open dumping of wastes
    that resulted in litter.
    Hearing was held January 7,
    1991 in Mansfield,
    Illinois.
    On
    June 20,
    1991 the Board issued an Order finding that the cited
    violation had occurred and imposed a penalty of $500.00.
    The
    Board also directed the Clerk of the Board and the Agency to file
    affidavits declaring their hearing costs.
    On July 2,
    1991, the Clerk of the Pollution Control Board
    filed an affidavit stating that the Board’s hearing costs were
    $818.50.
    On June 28,
    1991, the Agency filed an affidavit stating
    it had hearing costs of $40.80.
    The total hearing costs to be
    assessed against Respondent are $859.30.
    This Opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of facts and
    conclusions of law in this matter.
    ORDER
    1.
    It is hereby ordered that within thirty days of the
    date of this Order, Steve Gilbert 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 Agency, the amount of $859.30 which is to
    be sent to:
    124—237
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Fiscal Service Division
    2200 Churchill Road
    Springfield, Illinois 62706
    2.
    This docket is hereby closed.
    Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act,
    Ill. Rev.
    Stat.
    1989,
    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.
    Board Member 3. Theodore Meyer dissented.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certifj that the above Opin
    n and Order was
    adopted on the
    _____________
    day of
    L.
    1991 byavoteof
    Dorothy M. 9(~nn,Clerk
    Illinois Poi4ution Control Board
    124—238

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