ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    April
    18,
    1996
    PEOPLE
    OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
    )
    )
    Complainant,
    )
    )
    PCB 96-212
    v.
    )
    (Enforcement
    -
    Water)
    )
    EGYPTIAN COMMUNITY
    SCHOOL
    )
    DISTRICT UNIT
    #5,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by G.T. Girard):
    On April
    8,
    1996,
    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 Egyptian Community
    School District
    Unit
    #5,
    regarding its water treatment facility
    located at Rural Route #1,
    Tamms,
    Alexander County, Illinois.
    On April
    8,
    1996,
    the parties
    filed a stipulation and proposal
    for settlement accompanied by
    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
    5/3
    1(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.
    2
    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
    /7~
    day
    of
    ~~cj/.
    ,
    1996,
    by
    a
    vote
    of
    ~
    ,4~
    Dorothy M. Q4/m.
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollu~nControl Board

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