ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    September 23, 1999
    SIERRA CLUB, MIDEWIN TALLGRASS
    )
    PRAIRIE ALLIANCE, AUDUBON COUNCIL
    )
    OF ILLINOIS, and ILLINOIS AUDUBON
    )
    SOCIETY,
    )
    )
    Petitioners,
    )
    )
    v.
    ) PCB 99-136
    ) (Pollution Control Facility
    WILL COUNTY BOARD and WASTE
    ) Siting Appeal)
    MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS, INC.,
    )
    )
    Respondents.
    )
    __________________________________________
    LAND AND LAKES COMPANY,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    )
    v.
    ) PCB 99-139
    ) (Pollution Control Facility
    WILL COUNTY BOARD and WASTE
    ) Siting Appeal)
    MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS, INC.,
    )
    )
    Respondents.
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by R.C. Flemal):
    On August 19, 1999, petitioners Sierra Club, Midewin Tallgrass Prairie Alliance,
    Audubon Council of Illinois and Illinois Audubon Society (collectively, Sierra Club), filed a
    motion for reconsideration (motion). Sierra Club requests that the Board reconsider its August
    5, 1999 order affirming the Will County
     
    Board’s decision to grant pollution control facility siting
    approval to Waste Management of Illinois, Inc. (WMII), for the proposed Prairie View Landfill.
    Respondent Will County Board filed a response to the motion on August 30, 1999.
    Respondent WMII filed a response to the motion on September 1, 1999. For the reasons that
    follow, the motion is denied.
    In ruling on a motion for reconsideration the Board is to consider, but is not limited to,
    error in the decision and facts in the record which may have been overlooked. 35 Ill. Adm.
    Code 101.246(d). In Citizens Against Regional Landfill v. County of Board of Whiteside
    (March 11, 1993), PCB 93-156, we observed that "the intended purpose of a motion for
    reconsideration is to bring to the court's attention newly discovered evidence which was not
    available at the time of hearing, changes in the law or errors in the court's previous application of
    the existing law.” Korogluyan v. Chicago Title & Trust Co., 213 Ill. App. 3d 622, 627, 572
    N.E.2d 1154, 1158 (1st Dist. 1992).
    We find that the motion presents the Board with no new evidence, change in the law, or
    any other reason to conclude that the Board's original decision was in error.
    The Board therefore denies Sierra Club’s motion to reconsider the Board’s August 5,
    1999 order affirming the Will County Board’s decision to grant pollution control facility siting
    approval to WMII, for the proposed Prairie View Landfill.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    Board Member G.T. Girard abstained.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby certify that
    the above order was adopted on the 23rd day of September 1999 by a vote of 5-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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