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
    __________,
    1981 by a vote of
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    Christan L.
    Mof~e,t~b”~
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollutidn~-ControlBoard
    42—127

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