ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    July
    10, 1975
    ENVIRONI’4ENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Complainant,
    vs.
    )
    PCB 75—34
    PETTIBONE CORPORATION,
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Henss):
    Complainant has filed
    ‘Motion for Leave
    to File an
    Interlocutory Appeal from the Order of the Hearing Officer”.
    The Motion
    is accompanied by
    a document entitled “Inter-
    locutory Appeal”.
    At issue are certain discovery inter—
    rogatories which had been propounded by the Complainant
    to the Respondent and a request by Complainant for the
    right to inspect certain documents
    in possession of
    Respondent.
    It appears
    to the Board
    that
    Interrogatories
    No.
    3,
    No.
    33
    and
    No.
    34 are proper.
    Those
    Interrogatories
    ask
    for the identity of persons charged with the care and
    possession of the Respondent’s financial records;
    a list of
    the type of financial record kept by Respondent
    in the normal
    course of business;
    and identity of profit and loss statements
    from January
    1,
    1972 to the present.
    We believe that inter-
    rogatories
    No.
    27, No.
    28,
    No.
    35
    and No.
    39 ask for infor-
    mation which
    is not at this time at issue in the case,
    is
    immaterial and
    in some cases,
    is confidential,
    The Hearing
    Officer properly sustained objections
    to those
    Interrogatories.
    The request for the right
    to inspect documents
    is too broad.
    Complainant requests all periodic financial reports
    to the
    Responaemt relating
    to the operation of the subject facility
    from 1970
    to the present.
    We will sustain the Hearing Officer
    in his ruling as
    to that request for inspection.
    Presumably
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    Complainant could phrase
    a more specific request after receiving
    an answer to Interrogatory No.
    3.
    it is ordered that Respondent answer Interrogatories No.
    3,
    No.
    33, and No.
    34 on or before July
    21, 1975 and to that
    extent the order of the Hearing Officer
    is reversed.
    The order
    of the Rearing Officer is sustained with regard to Interrogatories
    No.
    27, No.
    28,
    No.
    35, No.
    39 and Complainant’s request for
    inspection of “all periodic financial reports
    to Respondent
    relating to operation of the subject facility from 1970
    to the
    present”.
    IT
    IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Christan
    L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    certify the above Order was adopted the
    /ô’~
    day of
    1975 by a vote of
    ~
    Illinois Polluti
    .trol Board
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