ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

August 23,

1979

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIO~sTAGENCY,

Complainant,

v.

)

PCB 78—233

GRANITE CITY STEEL COMPANY, an

Illinois corporation,

Respondent.

INTERIM ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr. Goodman):

On July 20,

1979 the parties to this action requested

that

a Stipulation and Proposal for Settlement be adopted by

the Board.

First,

the settlement allows the $10,000 proposed

p~naltyto be reduced by the amounts paid to citizens

in

settlement of their property damage claims.

The p~rialtyherein is designed to assure that property

damage claims are settled.

It does not aid in the enforce-

ment of the ~ct or induce compliance with regulations.

It

is not the Board’s duty to expedite the settlement of private

claims and the Board does not now intend to extend its author-

ity over this area.

The penalty herein

is a contingent one.

The Board does

not favor the imposition of contingent or suspended penalties;

they interfere with the Board’s duty to determine the penalty

amount and the conditions under which the penalty is warranted.

The Board hereby rejects

the Stipulation and Proposal for

Settlement.

The case

is remanded for further proceedings con-

sistent with this Order.

tT

15 SO ORDERED.

lr. Young dissents.

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I,

Christan L.

Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution

Control Board,

he

~Jj~y

certify

he abo e Interim Order was

adopt~don the

____

day of

_______________,

1979 by a vote

rk

Illinois Pollution C

ol Board

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