ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 17,
    1982
    VILLAGE OF BLOOMINGDALE and
    )
    URBAN INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT CORP.,
    )
    Petitioners,
    v.
    )
    PCB 81—207
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J. Anderson):
    On January 29,
    1982, Mr. Thomas W. Budzik “formally
    requestedl
    a public hearing...because
    he
    did)
    not know what
    effect if any
    variance
    will have on local residents’
    shallow
    well water
    supply”.
    On February
    3,
    1982 petitioners moved that
    the request for hearing be denied.
    They argue first,
    that
    hearing
    is not mandatory,
    as this request was filed too late
    to qualify as
    a Section 37(c)
    “objection”,
    and secondly that
    “the benefits
    to be gained by convening a public hearing for
    requester’s purposes are nil,
    if any, compared to the time and
    expense
    of
    public hearing)”.
    Mr. Budzik has not responded
    to this motion, with which he was served.
    The Agency has not
    replied to the motion,
    but on February
    8,
    1982 filed a
    Recommendation in support of grant of variance.
    While the Board agrees that hearing in this matter
    is not
    mandatory,
    the Board must make clear that questions of expense
    are not the primary considerations involved in the Board
    determination to convene discretionary public hearings.
    Hearing
    in this matter shall be expeditiously scheduled and held,
    as
    neither the petition nor the Recommendation address the concern
    raised
    in the hearing request.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Christan L.
    Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board, he eb
    certify that the above Order was adopted on
    the
    /Th_
    day of
    ___________________,
    1982 by a vote of
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    Illinois Pollutio
    ontrol Board
    45—434

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