ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    November 7, 2002
     
     
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
     
    Complainant,
     
    v.
     
    DRAW DRAPE CLEANERS, INC,
     
    Respondent.
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    PCB 03-51
    (Enforcement - Air)
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by M.E. Tristano):
     
    On October 15, 2002, the Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the People of the
    State of Illinois (People), filed a complaint against Draw Drape Cleaners, Inc (Draw Drape).
    See
     
    415 ILCS 5/31(c)(1) (2000)
    as amended by
    P.A. 92-0574, eff. June 26, 2002; 35 Ill. Adm. Code
    103.204. The People allege that Draw Drape violated various provisions of the Environmental
    Protection Act, the Board’s air pollution regulations, and its Federally Enforceable State
    Operating Permit. The People further allege that Draw Drape violated these provisions by
    emitting volatile organic material through the uncontrolled operation of its equipment. The
    complaint concerns Draw Drape’s petroleum solvent dry cleaning facility at 2235-2239 West
    Roscoe Street, Chicago, Cook 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 Draw Drape 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 Draw Drape 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.
     
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the Board
    adopted the above order on November 7, 2002, by a vote of 6-0.
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
     

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