ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    November 6, 2003
     
     
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
     
    Complainant,
     
    v.
     
    ROYAL TRUCKING COMPANY, a
    Mississippi corporation,
     
    Respondent.
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    PCB
    04-67
     
    (Enforcement - Water)
     
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by T.E. Johnson):
     
    On October 17, 2003, the Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the People of the
    State of Illinois (People), filed a complaint against Royal Trucking Company.
    See
    415 ILCS
    5/31(c)(1) (2002); 35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.204. At issue is the People’s allegation that Royal
    Trucking Company violated Section 12(a) and (d) of the Environmental Protection Act (415
    ILCS 5/12(a) and (d) (2002)). The People further allege that Royal Trucking Company violated
    these provisions by threatening or causing water pollution when a truck overturned in transit
    releasing sodium bisulfite on the roadway and in swales along the roadway on Interstate 94 in
    Chicago, Cook County.
     
    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 Royal Trucking Company 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 Royal Trucking
    Company 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 November 6, 2003, by a vote of 6-0.
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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