ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February
    22,
    1990
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Complainant,
    v.
    )
    PCB 72—63
    (Enforcement)
    TRUAX-TRAER COAL COMPANY,
    a
    division
    off CONSOLIDATION COAL
    COMPANY,
    Respondent.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Complainant,
    v.
    )
    PCB 72—153
    (Enforcement)
    CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by
    J.
    Marlin):
    This matter comes before the Board upon a letter
    ffiled
    February
    7,
    1990 by Consolidation Coal Company.
    That
    letter
    requested clarification of
    the final Board Order and Opinion
    in
    these two cases concerning whether Consolidation Coal
    needed
    to
    submit reclamation plans to the Board following cleanup of their
    Pyramid mine site under the “Abandoned Mined Lands Program.”
    The
    cleanup is scheduled to begin
    in early summer,
    1990 and includes
    liming and covering the slurry and gob.
    The Board’s
    final
    Opinions in these cases retained jurisdiction pending approval of
    “final reclamation plans.”
    The Board notes
    that the Abandoned Mined Lands and Water
    Reclamation Act
    (Act),
    Ill.
    Rev.
    Stat.
    ch. 96~par.
    8001.01 et
    seq.
    (1987) makes
    the Abandoned Mined Lands Reclamation Council
    (Council) administrative authority
    for reclamation programs under
    that Act.
    The Council
    is authorized
    to determine the manner
    of
    reclamation
    off designated abandoned mined
    lands, and
    the use of
    those lands after reclamation.
    Ill.
    Rev.
    Stat.
    ch. 96~par.
    8002.02.
    Given
    the above,
    the Board determines
    that inter—agency
    administrative efficiency would
    be served by relinquishing
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    jurisdiction over these two cases and yielding to the authority
    vested
    in the Council under
    the Abandoned Mined Lands and Water
    Reclamation Act.
    Therefore,
    jurisdiction over the reclamation
    plans
    is yielded pursuant
    to the Act and the above two cases are
    ordered
    closed.
    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
    -
    day of
    -•
    -
    ,
    1990,
    by a vc~eof
    _________
    Dorothy
    M.
    Gurin,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
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