LLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January 6, 2000
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
    Complainant,
    v.
    BABSON BROTHERS COMPANY, an
    Illinois corporation,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 00-102
    (Enforcement - Cost Recovery)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning)
    A complaint in the above captioned matter was filed on December 16, 1999. The
    complaint alleges that this is an action against the respondent under Sections 22.2(m) (415 ILCS
    5/22.2(m) (1992)) recodified as Section 58.7(b)(1) of the Environmental Protection Act (Act)
    (415 ILCS 5/58.7(b)(1) (1998)) to recover cost incurred by the Illinois Environmental
    Protection Agency under a “Review and Evaluation Agreement” (Agreement). The Agreement
    involves removal and remediation actions taken by respondent at a site located in Plato Center,
    Kane County, Illinois. The Board accepts this matter for hearing.
    The Board directs that this matter proceed to hearing as expeditiously as practicable.
    The assigned hearing officer must set the matter for hearing in accordance with the
    requirements of the Act and the Board’s procedural rules. Accordingly, this matter must be set
    for hearing within 90 days after the filing of the complaint unless the hearing officer, after
    appropriate consultation with the parties, determines that a later date is appropriate and that no
    undue delay or material prejudice in the resolution of this matter would result. See 35 Ill.
    Adm. Code 103.125(a). In any event, it is the responsibility of the hearing officer to guide the
    parties toward prompt resolution or adjudication of this matter, through whatever status calls
    and hearing officer orders he or she determines are necessary and appropriate.
    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 6th day of January 2000 by a vote of 6-0.
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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