ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
June 25~~1981
ILLINOIS
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
)
Complainant,
v.
)
PCB 81—27
CABOT
CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation,
Respondent.
ORDER OF
TEE BOARD
(by D. Satchell):
On January
5,
1981 the Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency filed a motion to strike the answer filed May 26, 1981.
The answer includes general denials of all allegations of the
complaint.
This includes
a denial that Cabot is
a Delaware
corporation qualified to do business in Illinois and a denial
of existence of certain provisions of the Environmental Protec-
tion Act.
General denials
are prohibited in the Illinois Courts..
(Section 40 of the Civil Practice Act).
Board rules provide a
general denial where no answer is filed.
However, where an
answer is filed the respondent should admit or deny each allega-
tion and state its affirmative defenses separately.
The motion
to strike answer is granted.
Cabot shall have twenty-one days
to file an amended answer.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
Control Bo~rd,hereby certify that the above Order was adopted
on the
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day of
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1981 by a vote of
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Christan L.
Mof~e,t~b”~
Clerk
Illinois Pollutidn~-ControlBoard
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