ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

March 24, 1988

CITY OF TROY, ILLINOIS,

a Municipal Corporation,

AND RON CRILEY, as an Individual

Resident of the City of Troy,

Illinois, and as Mayor of the

City of Troy, Illinois,

Petitioners,

v.

)

PCB 88—49

COUNTY BOARD OF THE

COUNTY OF MADISON, ILLINOIS,

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD (by B. Forcade):

The Petitioners, Ron Criley, individually and as Mayor of

the City of Troy, Illinois, and the City of Troy, (‘tPetitioners~)

petition to intervene in an appeal from a denial of a landfill

siting approval by the Madison County Board (“County Board”) on

an application for landfill siting approval from GSX Corp. for

the expansion of the Barton Landfill site in that county. The

Petitioners allege that the County Board did not entertain their

petition to intervene in the County Board proceedings in this

matter. The Petitioners request leave to intervene in any

proceedings before this Board in this matter or, alternatively,

that this Board remand this matter to the County Board with

instructions that the County Board conduct an additional hearing

that would include ev dence to be submitted by the Petitioners.

GSX Corp. has not yet filed an appeal of the County Board Denial

with this Board.

The Board will temporarily docket this filing as PCB 88—49

for the purpose of clarification of the issues involved. The

parties are hereby directed to brief, by April 22, 1988, the

issue of the authority of this Board to hear this matter in the

absence of some indication of a final decision of the County

Board and a subsequent appeal by an appropriate party. The Clerk

of this Board is hereby directed to serve a copy of this Order

together with the Petition on the Madison County Board and GSX

Corp.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

87—225

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Board Member Dr. J. Marlin dissented.

I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereb~,certify that the above Order was adopted on

the

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day of

1~~4

,

1988 by a vote

of

Illinois Pollution Control Board

87—226