ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
May 4,
1995
PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF ILLINOIS,
Complainant,
V.
)
PCB 94—84
(Enforcement-Land)
WINNEBAGO
RECLAMATION
)
SERVICE, INC.,
an Illinois
)
Corporation and WN. LANS
)
SON’S COMPANY,
an Illinois
)
Corporation
)
)
Respondent.
CONCURRING OPINION
(by 3.
Theodore Meyer):
I concur in the Board’s order simply to remind the parties
and the public,
that Section 42(f)
of the Environmental
Protection Act
(Act)
provides that the Board may award costs and
reasonable attorney’s
fees
in cases brought on behalf of the
people of the State of Illinois.
(415 ILCS 5/42(f)
(1992)).
In
the instant case,
the complaint requests that the Board impose
such costs and fees;
however, the stipulation and settlement does
not refer to this request, nor explain whether some percentage of
costs and fees was figured into the penalty.
I continue to
believe that costs and fees should be pursued on behalf of the
Illinois taxpayer,
and urge the parties to bear this in mind in
future negotiations
in this case.
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3. Th~eodoreMpyer
Board Member
I,
Dorothy M.
Gunn,
Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board, hereby certify that the above concurring opinion was filed
on the
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day of
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1995.
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Dorothy M.,’Øunn, Clerk
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