ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    October
    24,
    1991
    ST. CLAIR COUNTY,
    Complainant.
    v.
    )
    AC 91—42
    (County No.
    91—6
    SC)
    (Administrative Citation)
    JOE HAMMEL,
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD:
    This matter comes before the Board upon a September
    13,
    1991
    filing of an Administrative Citation pursuant
    to Section 31.1 of
    the Illinois Environmental Protection Act
    (Act) by the County of
    St. Clair.
    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 Joe Hamxnel
    on September
    5,
    1991.
    The County of
    St. Clair alleges that on
    July 17,
    1991, Joe Harnmel, present owner and/or operator of a
    facility located
    in St. Clair County and commonly known
    to the
    Agency as O’Fallon/Hammel, violated Sections 2l(q)(l)
    and
    21(q)(3) of
    the Act.
    The statutory penalty established for each
    of these violations
    is $500.00 pursuant
    to Section 42(b)(4)
    of
    the Act.
    Joe Hammel
    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 31.l(d)(2)
    of the Act.
    Therefore,
    pursuant
    to Section
    31.l(d)(l),
    the Board finds that Joe Hammel Has violated each and
    every provision alleged in the Administrative Citation.
    Since
    there are two
    (2) such violations,
    the total penalty to
    be
    imposed is set at
    $1,000.00.
    1.
    It
    is hereby ordered that,
    unless
    the penalty has already
    been paid,
    ithin
    30 days of the date
    of
    this Order Joe
    Hamntel shah,
    by certified check or money order payable
    to
    the Landfill Citation Fund,
    pay a penalty
    in the amount of
    $1,000.00,
    which is
    to be sent
    to:
    Paul Haas
    County Collector
    #10 Public Square
    Belleville,
    Illinois
    62220
    126—639
    —2—
    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 the violation continues.
    Section 41 of the Environmental Protection Act,
    Ill. Rev.
    Stat.
    1989,
    ch. l1l~,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
    Board,~fl.~rebycertif;
    t at the above Order
    was adoptedpn the
    c~-71L?-~dayof
    ,
    1991, by a vote of
    /-~2,,
    Dorothy M. Gun~’Clerk
    Illinois Poll4).on Control Board
    126—640

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