ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
February
2, 1989
IN THE MATTER OF:
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AC 88—75
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AC 88—80
STEVE ZIMMERMAN
AND
WASTE, LTD.,
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AC 88—81
INC.
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AC 88—85
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AC 88—86
Respondents.
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(CONSOLIDATED)
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DOCKET B
STEWART J. UMHOLTZ, ESQ., ASSISTANT STATE’S ATTORNEY FOR TAZEWELL
COUNTY,
APPEARED
ON
BEHALF
OF
THE
COMPLAINANT,
COUNTY
OF
TAZEWELL.
DANIEL
M.
REAVY,
ESQ.,
OF
MORAN,
ALEWELT
AND
PRILLAMAN,
APPEARED
ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENTS, STEVE ZIMMERMAN AND WASTE,
LTD.
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD (by N. Nardulli):
This matter comes before the Board from the filIng of five
Administrative Citations by the State’s Attorney of Tasewell
County, pursuant to Section 31.1 of the Illinois Environmental
Protection Act (hereinafter RActu)
The citations alleged that
Steve Zimmerman and Waste Limited, Inc. violated Sections
21(d)(1), 21(p)(5), 21(p)(7) and 21(p) (12) of the Act.
The civil
penalty established for each of these violatLons is $500.00 plus
any hearing cost incurred by the Board, the Agency or a party to
which the Agency has designated authority to enforce the Act,
pursuant to Section 42(b)(4) of the Act.
On a Petition for Review filed on behalf of the Respondents,
hearings were held on October
25,
1988 and November 29,
1988.
On
December
15,
1988, the Board issued an Opinion and Order finding
that two of the cited violations had occurred and imposed a
penalty in the amount of $1,000.00.
The Board also directed the
Clerk of the Board and the State’s Attorney of Tazewell County to
file affidavits declaring their hearing costs.
On January 6,
1989,
Tazewell County filed an affidavit
stating that it agreed in the Stipulatton in this case not to
seek recovery of its hearing costs. Therefore, Tazewell County
has declared no hearing costs.
The Clerk of the Board filed an
affidavit on January 9,
1989 stating that the hearing costs
incurred by the Board
in this matter were $887.63.
The total
hearing costs to be assessed against the Respondent are $887.63.
It
is hereby ordered that within 30 days of the date of this
Order, Steve Zimmerman
and
Waste Limited, Inc. shall, by
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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,
the amount
of $887.63, which is
to be sent to:
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Fiscal Service Division
2200 Churchill Road
Springfield,
IL
62706
This docket
is hereby closed.
Section 41
of the Environmental Protection
Act,
Ill.
Rev.
Stat.
1985,
ch.
1l11,~, 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.
1,
Dorothy M Gunn,
Clerk of
the Illinois Pollution Control
Board, hereby certify that
the above Ooini~n and Order was
adopted on the
~‘~‘
day of
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1989, by
a vote of
7-C
/
I.
,Th.
~
Dorothy M.
GunrI,
Clerk,
Illinois Po13~tionControl Board
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