ILLiNOIS POLLUTION CONTROLBOARD
    March 21,
    1996
    PEOPLE
    OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
    )
    )
    Complainant,
    )
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB95-175
    )
    (Enforcement
    -
    Air)
    POLYMER COLOR, iNC.
    )
    an Illinois corporation,
    )
    )
    Respondents.
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by J.
    Theodore Meyer):
    On June 20,
    1995,
    the illinois Attorney General, on behalfofthe People ofthe State of
    illinois and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, filed a formal complaint naming as
    respondent, Polymer Color, Inc. which had been located at 740
    B.
    Industrial Drive, Cary,
    McHenry County, Illinois from January 1984 until December 1991.
    From May 1991
    until the
    present, Polymer hasbeen located at 1515
    Miller Parkway, McHenry, McHenry County, illinois.
    OnMarch
    15,
    1996, the parties filed a stipulation
    and
    proposal for settlement accompanied by a
    request for relieffrom the requirements of Section 3 1(a)(1) ofthe Environmental Protection Act
    (Act) that proposed stipulated settlements be presented at public hearing.
    (415 ILCS
    5/3
    1(a)(1)
    (1994).)
    Section
    3 1(a)(2) ofthe Act provides that whenever a complaint has been filed on behalfof
    the Agency orby thePeople ofthe State ofIllinois, the parties may file with the Board a stipula-
    tion and proposal for settlement accompanied by a request for relief from the requirement ofa
    hearing.
    The Board is required to cause notice ofthe 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 mayfile a written demand for hearing
    within 21 days after receiving thenotice.
    Ifany person files a timely written demand for hearing,
    the Board shall deny the request forrelieffrom a hearingand
    hold a hearing.
    The Board accordingly directs the Clerk to cause publication ofthe 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 ofthe Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    hereby
    certify
    that
    the
    above order was adopted on the
    ~J04’
    day of
    7hiz~t~c4’
    ,
    1996,
    by a vote of
    7-a
    Illinois
    ControlBoard

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