ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 7, 2003
     
     
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
     
    Complainant,
     
    v.
     
    INTERMATIC INCORPORATED, a
    Delaware corporation,
     
    Respondent.
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    PCB 04-13
    (Enforcement - Air)
     
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by N.J. Melas):
     
    On July 28, 2003, the Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the People of the State
    of Illinois (People), filed a nine-count complaint against Intermatic Incorporated (Intermatic).
    See
    415 ILCS 5/31(c)(1) (2002); 35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.204. The People allege that Intermatic
    violated several provisions of the Act and Board rules (415 ILCS 5/9(a) and (b), 9.1(d)(1),
    39.5(6)(a) and (b) (2002); 35 Ill. Adm. Code 201.142, 203.201, 203.203(a) and (b), 205.150(c),
    205.205(a), 205.720, 218.105(d)(2)(A)(iii)) by way of operating five sheet-fed offset printing
    presses.
     
    The People further allege that Intermatic violated these provisions by: (1) failing to
    obtain a construction permit for any of the five presses; (2) failing to modify a Clean Air Act
    permit before operating the fifth press; (3) failing to comply with Emission Reduction Marketing
    System Requirements; (4) constructing a major modification to a source (the fifth press) without
    complying with New Source Review requirements; (5) failing to comply with volatile organic
    material emissions limitations; (6) failing to comply with idling emission limitations; (7) failing
    to properly maintain and operate a carbon adsorber; (8) failing to submit idling emission limit
    exceedance reports and compliance certifications; and (9) failing to submit annual compliance
    certifications. The complaint concerns Intermatic’s facility located at 7777 Winn Road, Spring
    Grove, McHenry County, where it manufactures electrical items such as low voltage lighting,
    professional lighting, photo controllers, surge suppressor strips, and timers.
     
    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 Intermatic 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 Intermatic 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 August 7, 2003, by a vote of 7-0.
     
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
     

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