ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    July 25,
    199.
    VILL1~GEOF MATTESON,
    )
    Complainant,
    V.
    )
    PCB 90—146
    (Enforcement)
    WORLD MUSIC THEATRE
    )
    JAM
    PRODUCTIONS,
    LTD.,
    DISCOVERY SOUTH GROUP,
    LTD.,
    )
    and GIERCZYK DEVELOPMENT,
    INC.,
    )
    )
    Respondents.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by R.
    C.
    Flernal):
    On July 22,
    1991, the Village of Matteson filed a Petition
    for Interim Relief.
    That Petition asserts various continuing
    nuisance and numerical sound violations and notes an
    instantaneous radio feedback loop between the sound monitoring
    technicians and the World Music Theatre which allows adjusting
    the sound at the source to produce lower sound values.
    In its
    petition Natteson seeks a declaration that the instantaneous
    radio feedback loop violates both the spirit and the letter of
    the Board’s April
    25, 1991 Order.
    Natteson seeks an Order
    prohibiting such feedback loop and requiring additional
    monitoring without such feedback.
    In the alternative, Matteson
    seeks clarification of the method for determining improvements at
    the Theatre.
    Natteson does not seek an Order compelling any
    noise reduction activities at the theatre prior to the submission
    of the August report on sound monitoring.
    The Board notes that
    sound monitoring must continue pursuant to paragraph 2(d) of the
    Interim Order,
    “Sound monitoring shall commence with the first
    concert and shall continue until
    a
    final order by this Board.”
    Because of the dispute that has arisen regarding the
    legitimacy of the data being collected,
    the Board will require
    World Music Theatre to ensure that all raw uncorrected data
    acquired in this monitoring effort be preserved and that copies
    of such raw data be provided to Natteson and included in the
    final report.
    In addition, World Music Theatre shall prepare a
    log of the time and content of all communications between the
    monitoring locations and the Theatre,
    including any actions taken
    by the Theatre to alter noise levels being recorded, as a result
    of such conversations.
    The Board will not act on the Petition for Interim Relief at
    this time, since World Music Theatre has not had an adequate
    opportunity to respond.
    The Board would anticipate action on the
    Petition at the August 8,
    1991 Board meeting.
    124—181
    2
    The Board notes that the numerical noise data supplied by
    Natteson appears to represent some summary of partial data.
    Further, the allegations of numerical data and citizen complaints
    are not verified.
    Absent some agreement between the parties
    regarding the accuracy of the data collected, the Board would be
    reluctant to require sound abatement activities based upon
    unsworn partial data.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    J. Theodore Meyer dissented.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board
    hereby certif
    th t the above Order was adopted on t)ie
    _____
    day of
    __________________,
    1991,
    by a vote of
    ‘7~
    /
    ~7.
    Dorothy N.
    G)4hn, Clerk
    Illinois Poiilution Control Board
    124-482

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