ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
April 27,
1978
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
)
Complainant,
)
)
v.
)
PCB 78—37
CITY OF OREGON,
)
)
Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by Mr. Goodman):
On April 12,
1978,
the Environmental Protection Agency
(Agency)
filed a Motion for Sanctions against the City of Oregon
(City).
In
its Motion,
the Agency alleges
that it served Interrogatories and a
Request for Production of Documents upon the City.
The City did
not respond.
On March
29,
1978,
the Hearing Officer herein entered
an Order requiring answers within 10 days,
and the City still failed
to respond.
In addition, the City has filed no response to the
Motion for Sanctions.
The City has chosen to ignore the Board’s Procedural Rules and
has totally disregarded a Hearing Officer Order..,
Since the City has
also chosen not to respond to the Agency’s Motion,
the Board can find
no justification for the City’s refusal to answer the Agency’s Inter-
rogatories.
Therefore,
in accordance with Procedural Rule 701,
the
Agency’s Motion
is granted.
The Board hereby orders that:
1.
That Respondent the
City of Oregon shall be
debarred from filing any pleading relating to the follow-
ing issues:
a) description and operation of Respondent’s
public water supply system;
b)
modifications to said system and the cost
of modification;
c)
the construction, installation and cost of
chlorination equipment;
d)
the presence or absence of contaminants in
Respondent’s public water supply system;
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e)
the availability of funds to install chlori-
nation equipment.
2.
That Respondent the City
of
Oregon be debarred
from introducing at the hearing
in
this
matter
any
testi-
mony or other evidence relating to the following issues:
a)
description and operation of Respondent’s
public water supply system;
b)
modifications of said system and the cost of
modification;
c)
the construction, installation and cost of
chlorination equipment;
d)
the presence or absence of contaminants in
Respondent’s public water supply system;
e)
the availability of funds to install chlorination
equipment.
I,
Christan
L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
Control Board, hereby certify the above Order was adopted on
the~1”-__dayof
,
1978 by a vote of~.O
Q~stanL.Mof,Cl~k~~
Illinois Pollution Control Board
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