ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January 18, 1996
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE
    )
    OF ILLINOIS,
    )
    Complainant,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 95—124
    (Enforcement-Air)
    LEBANON
    CHEMICAL
    CORPORATION,
    )
    a foreign corporation,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE
    BOARD
    (by G.
    T. Girard):
    On April
    5,
    1995,
    the Illinois Attorney General, on behalf
    of the People of the State of Illinois and the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency, filed a formal complaint naming
    Lebanon Chemical Corporation, a foreign corporation, located on
    West Ross Lane,
    Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois as
    respondent.
    On January 16,
    1996, the parties filed a stipulation
    and proposal for settlement acciompani~dby
    a
    request for relief
    from the requirements of Section 31(a) (1)
    of the Environmental
    Protection Act (Act)
    that proposed stipulated settlements be
    presented at public hearing.
    (415 ILCS 5/31(a) (1)
    (1994).)
    Section 31(a) (2)
    of the Act provides that whenever a
    complaint has been filed on behalf of the Agency or by the People
    of the State of Illinois, the parties may file with the Board a
    stipulation and proposal for settlement accompanied by a request
    for relief from the requirement of a hearing.
    The Board is
    required to cause notice of the stipulation, proposal and request
    for relief to be published, unless the Board in its discretion,
    concludes that a hearing is necessary.
    The notice is required to
    include a statement that any person may file a written demand for
    hearing within 21 days after receiving the notice.
    If any person
    files a timely written demand for hearing, the Board shall deny
    the request for relief from a hearing and hold a hearing.
    The Board accordingly directs the Clerk to cause publication
    of the required newspaper notice.
    The Board will reserve ruling
    on the parties request until after the statutory 21 days has
    passed.
    IT
    IS
    SO
    ORDERED.
    2
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Bo~rd,hereby certi
    that the above order was adopted on the
    /~W
    day of ______________________,
    1996,
    by a vote of
    ~
    ~
    A.
    ~
    Dorothy M7Gunn,
    Clerk
    Illinois
    ollution Control Board

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