ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    July 11,
    1991
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Complainant,
    V.
    )
    AC 91—25
    )
    (EPA Docket No.
    223—91—AC)
    UPPER ROCK ISLAND COUNTY
    )
    (Administrative Citation)
    LANDFILL,
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD:
    This matter comes before
    the Board upon a May
    20,
    1991
    filing of an Administrative Citation pursuant to Section 31.1
    of-
    the Illinois Environmental Protection Act
    (Act)
    by the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency (Agency).
    A copy of
    that
    Administrative Citation
    is attached hereto, but will not be
    printed
    in the Board’s Opinion Volumes.
    Service of the
    Administrative Citation was made upon Upper Rock
    Island County
    Landfill on May 18, 1991.
    The Agency alleges that on March
    19,
    1991, Upper Rock Island County Landfill, present owner and/or
    ooerator of
    a facility located in Rock Island County and commonly
    known to the Agency as East Moline/Upper Rock Island County
    Landfill, violated Sections 21(p)(1),
    21(p)(5),
    2l(p)(ll)
    and
    2l(p)(l2) of the Act.
    The statutory penalty established for each
    of these violations
    is $500.00 pursuant to Section 42(b)(4)
    of
    the Act.
    Upper Rock Island County Landfill has not filed a Petition
    for Review with the Clerk of the Board within
    35 days of the date
    of service as allowed by Section 3l.l(d)(2)
    of the Act.
    Therefore, pursuant to Section 31.l(d)(l),
    the Board finds that
    Upper Rock Island County Landfill has violated each and every
    provision alleged in the Administrative Citation.
    Since there
    are four
    (4) such violations,
    the total penalty to .~eimposed is
    set
    at $2,000.00.
    1.
    It
    is hereby ordered that, unless the penalty has already
    been paid, within 30 days of the date of this Order Upper
    Rock
    Island County Landfill shall, by certified check
    or
    money order payable
    to the State of Illinois and designated
    for deposit into the Environmental Protection Trust
    Fund, pay
    a penalty in the amount of $2,000.00 which
    is
    to be sent
    to:
    124—117
    —2—
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Fiscal Services Division
    2200 Churchill Road
    Springfield,
    IL 62706
    2.
    Respondent shall include the remittance form and write the
    case name and number and their social security or federal
    Employer Identification Number on the certified check or
    money order.
    3.
    Penalties unpaid after the due date shall accrue interest
    pursuant
    to Section 42(g)
    of the Illinois Environmental
    Protection Act.
    4.
    Payment of this penalty does not prevent future prosecution
    if this violation continues.
    Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act,
    Ill.
    Rev.
    Stat.
    1989,
    ch. ll1~,par.
    1041, provides for appeal of
    final
    Orders of the Board within 35 days.
    The Rules of the Supreme
    Court of Illinois establish filing requirements.
    IT
    IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Boar~,_herebycer
    fy that the above Order was adopted on tne
    //~i’—~
    day of
    ~
    ,
    1991, by a vote of
    7o
    /
    Dorothy M. ,~nn,Clerk
    Illinois P~1utionControl Board
    124—118

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