ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March 14, 1991
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
    AGENCY,
    Complainant,
    V.
    )
    AC 89—156
    Docket B
    (Administrative Citation)
    JOHN A. GORDON,
    )
    (IEPA No. 9758-AC)
    Respondent.
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by B.
    Forcade):
    This matter comes to the Board on an Administrative Citation
    filed by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    (“Agency”)
    pursuant to the Illinois Environmental Protection Act
    (hereinafter
    “the Act”)
    (Ill.
    Rev.
    Stat.
    1989,
    ch. 111 1/2, par.
    1001
    et. seq.).
    The citation was filed July
    13,
    1989,
    and
    alleges that Respondent,
    John A. Gordon,
    the owner and operator
    of a facility located in Jackson County,
    Illinois
    is
    in violation
    of Section 21(q) (1) and 21(q) (3)
    of the Act for causing or
    allowing open dumping of wastes that result in litter and result
    in open burning.
    A Petition for Review was filed with the Board on July
    13,
    1989.
    Hearing was held November
    3,
    1989,
    at the Community Center
    in Carbondale,
    Illinois.
    On January 24,
    1991 the Board issued an
    Order finding that the cited violations had occurred and imposed
    a penalty of
    $1000.00.
    The Board also directed the Clerk of the
    Board and the Agency to file affidavits declaring their hearing
    costs.
    On February 25,
    1991,
    the Clerk of the Pollution Control
    Board filed an affidavit stating that the Board’s hearing costs
    were $1,134.40.
    On February 22,
    1991 the Agency filed an
    affidavit stating its hearing costs were $153.80.
    The total
    hearing costs to be assessed against Respondent
    is $1,288.20.
    This Opinion constitutes the Board’s findings of facts and
    conclusions of law in this matter.
    ORDER
    It is hereby ordered that within thirty days of the date of
    this Order, John A. Gordon shall, by certified check or money
    order, payable to the State of Illinois and designated for
    deposit into the General Revenue Fund, pay as compensation for
    hearing costs incurred by the Board and Agency,
    the amount of
    $1,288.20 which is to be sent to:
    120—99
    2
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    Fiscal Service Division
    2200 Churchill Road
    Springfield,
    Illinois
    62706
    This docket
    is hereby closed.
    Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act,
    Ill. Rev.
    Stat.
    1989,
    ch.
    ill 1/2, 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.
    Board member
    J. Theodore Meyer dissented.
    Board member Jacob Dumelle abstained.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy N. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify th~the above Opinion and Order was
    adopted on the
    _______________
    day of
    ____________________
    1991,
    by a vote of
    ______________
    /Ll~
    Dorothy
    r~
    Gunn,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    120—100

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