ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
September
8,
1983
CITY OF CENTRALIA,
Petitioner,
v.
)
PCB 83—103
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY,
Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by
3.
Anderson):
On August
15,
1983,
the Agency moved to dismiss this
petition, filed August
1,
1983.
The basis for the motion is
twofold:
various alleged informational deficiencies, and
Centralia’s request that the Board “intervene”
in the dispute
between the Agency and the City concerning whether the City’s
choice of rotating biological contractors
(RBC) meet various
requirements for funding
in the construction grants program.
The City filed a response August 26, 1983.
The Agency’s motion to dismiss is denied.
However,
the
Agency is correct that Section
4 of the Environmental Protection
Act has given it exclusive authority to administer the federal
construction grants program.
Therefore the RBC dispute is
inappropriately before the Board, and that portion of the
petition is stricken.
The Agency is also correct that the petition, even though
it incorporates the record in PCB 82—98, does not address the
information requests contained
in 35
Ill. Adm.
Code 104.121
(d—k) as fully as
is desirable.
The Board notes,
however, that
this deficiency may in part stem from the fact that the petition
does not specifically either reaffirm or .update the “old”
information in the previous petition.
Finally,
the Board notes
that the City has requested
a hearing on this petition,
but
questions whether the City still wishes to proceed to a hearing,
given the Board’s decision on its inability to deal with the
RBC grant eligibility question.
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To clarify all of these matters, the City is ordered to
file an amended petition addressing the noted deficiencies and
the hearing request issue within 45 days of the date of this
Order,
or this petition will be subject to dismissal.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Board Member D.
Anderson dissented.
I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
Control B~rd,hereb
certify that the above Order was adop,ed
on the
~
day of ~dL~rp~3~t.&)
,
1983 by a vote of
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Christan
L.
Moff t
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Clerk
Illinois Pollution ~ntrol
Board
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