ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 8, 2002
     
     
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
     
    Complainant,
     
    v.
     
    RIVERSTONE GROUP, INC., an Illinois
    corporation,
     
    Respondent.
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    PCB 03-12
    (Enforcement - Water)
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
     
    On July 31, 2002, the Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the People of the
    State of Illinois (People), filed a three-count complaint against Riverstone Group, Inc.
    (Riverstone).
    See
    415 ILCS 5/31(c)(1) (2000)
    amended by
    P.A. 92-0574, eff. June 26, 2002;
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.204. The People allege that Riverstone violated Sections 12(a) and
    12(f) of the Environmental Protection Act (415 ILCS 12(a), (f) (2000)
    amended by
    P.A. 92-
    0574, eff. June 26, 2002), and the Board’s water pollution regulations at 35 Ill. Adm. Code
    302.203, 304.141(a), 309.102(a). The People further allege that Riverstone violated these
    provisions by discharging process wastewater containing total suspended solids in excess of the
    effluent standards set in its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, causing an
    unnatural turbidity in the receiving waters. The complaint concerns Riverstone’s quarry at 539
    Route 52, Utica, LaSalle County.
     
    The Board accepts the complaint for hearing.
    See
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.212(c). A
    respondent’s failure to file an answer to a complaint within 60 days after receiving the
    complaint may have severe consequences. Generally, if Riverstone fails within that timeframe
    to file an answer specifically denying, or asserting insufficient knowledge to form a belief of, a
    material allegation in the complaint, the Board will consider Riverstone to have admitted the
    allegation. 35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.204(d). The Board directs the hearing officer to proceed
    expeditiously to hearing.
     
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
     
     
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    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the
    Board adopted the above order on August 8, 2002, by a vote of 7-0.
     
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
     

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