ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    April 4,
    1996
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
    )
    )
    Complainant,
    )
    )
    PCB 93-250
    v.
    )
    (Enforcement
    -
    Air)
    )
    CLARK OIL & REFINING
    )
    CORPORATION,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by E.
    Dunham):
    On December 9,
    1993,
    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 as respondent,
    Clark Oil
    & Refining
    Corporation, located in Blue Island,
    Cook
    County,
    Illinois and in
    Hartford,
    Madison County,
    Illinois.
    On April
    1,
    1996,
    the parties filed
    a stipulation and proposal for settlement accompanied by a
    request for relief from the
    requirements of Section
    3 1(a)(1) ofthe Environmental Protection Act (Act) that
    proposed
    stipulated
    settlements be presented at public hearing.
    (415
    ILCS
    5131(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 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 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.
    I,
    Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the
    Illinois Pollution
    Control Board,
    hereby certify
    that
    the
    above
    order
    was
    adopted
    on
    the
    ~
    day
    of
    ___________,
    1996,
    by
    a
    vote
    of
    ~
    A~.
    Dorothy M. G~~ic,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollutjóñ Control Board

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