ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
April
8,
1993
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
)
Complainant,
V.
)
PCB 92-68
(Enforcement)
CHEM-PLATE INDUSTRIES,
INC.,
an Illinois Corporation,
)
Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by
3.
Anderson):
On February 26,
1993, the parties filed a stipulation and
proposal for settlement in this matter.
On March
1,
1993, the
parties filed a request for relief from the otherwise applicable
requirement of Section 31(a) (1)
of the Act that proposed
stipulated settlements be presented at public hearing.
(See
Section 31(a)(2),
as enacted in P.A. 87-0134, effective August
13,
1991.)
On March 11,
1993,
the Board issued an order
directing the Clerk to cause publication of the required
newspaper notice and reserving ruling on the parties’ request
until after the statutory 21 days has passed.
Newspaper notice
was published on March 17,
1993.
On March 25, 1993, James
S. Wagner filed a request that a
hearing be held in this matter.
Section 31(a)(2) of the
Environmental Protection Act
(Act)
provides that the Board shall
deny the request for relief from a hearing and hold a hearing in
accordance
with the provisions of Section 31(a) (1)
of the Act if
a person files a timely written demand for hearing.
The Board
finds that Mr. Wagner’s request for hearing was timely filed.
Accordingly, the Board hereby denies the parties’ March
1,
1993
request for relief from hearing and directs the Clerk of the
Board to schedule hearing in this matter.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Dorothy M.
Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Bpard,
hereby cert)~y
tb~at
the above order was adopted on the
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day of ______________________,
1993,
by a vote of
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Dorothy H. ~
Clerk
Illinois PoLltition Control Board
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