ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March 6, 2003
     
    GERE PROPERTIES, INC.,
     
    Petitioner,
     
    v.
     
    JACKSON COUNTY BOARD and
    SOUTHERN ILLINOIS REGIONAL
    LANDFILL, INC.,
     
    Respondents.
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    PCB 02-201
    (Third-Party Pollution Control Facility
    Siting Appeal)
      
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by T.E. Johnson):
     
    The Fifth District of the Illinois Appellate Court has remanded to the Board a motion to
    supplement the record on appeal in Gere Properties, Inc. v. Illinois Pollution Control Board,
    Jackson County Board, and Southern Illinois Regional Landfill, Inc., No. 5-02-0700. For the
    reasons below, the Board grants the motion and directs the Clerk of the Board to certify and
    transmit to the court the supplemental record.
     
    By way of background, the Board affirmed the decision of the Jackson County Board
    (Jackson County) to approve the siting of Southern Illinois Regional Landfill, Inc.’s proposed
    landfill expansion.
    See
    Gere Properties, Inc. v. Jackson County Board and Southern Illinois
    Regional Landfill, Inc., PCB 02-201 (Sept. 5, 2002). Gere Properties, Inc. (Gere) had filed a
    third-party petition with the Board challenging Jackson County’s decision on one of the nine
    landfill siting criteria specified in the Environmental Protection Act (415 ILCS 5/39.2(a), 40.1(b)
    (2002)). After the Board affirmed Jackson County’s siting approval, Gere appealed the Board’s
    decision to the appellate court.
     
    On January 23, 2003, Gere filed with the court a motion to supplement the record on
    appeal. On February 18, 2003, the Board received from the court a February 14, 2003 order of
    the court and a copy of Gere’s motion. By the order, the court remanded the motion to the Board
    for the Board to rule on the motion under Supreme Court Rule 329, which allows for omissions
    or inaccuracies in records on appeal to be corrected.
     
    In its motion to supplement the record on appeal, Gere states that various pages from
    Jackson County’s siting proceeding record are either not present in, or not clearly reproduced in,
    the record on appeal. Motion at 1. Gere asks that the record on appeal be supplemented with
    copies of the missing pages and clear copies of the illegible pages, which supplemental pages
    Gere identifies in and attaches to its motion.
    Id.
    at 2-3. Gere further states that it cited to some
    of these supplemental pages in its opening brief filed with the court.
    Id.
    at 1. No response to the
    motion has been filed either with the court or the Board.
     
     
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    The Board grants Gere’s motion to supplement the record on appeal. In accordance with
    Supreme Court Rule 329, the Board directs the Clerk of the Board to certify and transmit to the
    court, as a supplemental record, those pages identified in and attached to Gere’s motion.
       
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
     
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, certify that the Board
    adopted the above order on March 6, 2003, by a vote of 6-0.
     
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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