ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    July
    7, 1995
    DON CARSON STEINHEIMER and
    )
    RAY
    DARROW STEINHEIMER AS
    )
    CO-EXECUTORS OF THE ESTATE
    )
    OF IRENE D.
    STEINHEIMER,
    deceased,
    Complainants,
    )
    PCB 95-51
    )
    (Enforcement
    -
    UST)
    V.
    GTE NORTH,
    INC.,
    )
    a Wisconsin Corporation,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by R.C. Flemal):
    This matter is before the Board on a complaint filed on
    February 10,
    1995 by Don Carson Steinheimer and Ray Darrow
    Steinheimer as Co-Executors of the Estate of Irene
    D.
    Steirtheimer, deceased,
    (Steinheimers)
    against GTE North,
    Inc.
    (GTE).
    The complaint alleges that GTE has violated Sections 12,
    21 and 18(a) (2)
    of the Environmental Protection Act
    (415 ILCS
    5/12,
    21,
    18(a)(2)
    (1992)),
    arid
    Section
    620.405 of the Board’s
    Groundwater Regulations (35 Ill. Mm. Code 620.405), as a result
    of GTE’s storage, disposal, and handling of petroleum products
    and waste materials.
    The complaint also requests the Roard
    set
    a
    date for hearing.
    By Board order of April
    6,
    1995 the Board determined this
    complaint was neither duplicitous nor frivolous and sent the
    matter to hearing.
    On April
    14,
    1995 GTE filed a Motion to
    Decide Proceeding on the Merits.
    On April
    25,
    1995 the
    Steinheimers filed
    a
    Motion
    to
    Strike Respondent GTE’s Motion to
    Decide Proceeding on the Merits.
    On May 2,
    1995 GTE filed a
    Response to Complainants’ Motion to Strike GTE’s Motion to Decide
    Proceedings on the Merits.
    The
    Board
    will take all outstanding
    motions with the case.
    The Board hereby directs the assigned hearing officer to
    promptly proceed to hearing.
    The hearing officer and the parties
    are encouraged to expedite this proceeding as much as possible.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    2
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certif
    tha~tthe above order was adopted on the
    7~
    day of
    ______________,
    1995, by a vote of
    7-~O.
    ii
    Dorothy M. fl~n,Clerk
    Illinois Pp,&ution
    Control Board

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