ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January 22, 2004
     
     
    PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
     
    Complainant,
     
    v.
     
    DUPAGE MACHINE PRODUCTS, INC., a
    Delaware corporation,
     
    Respondent.
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    PCB 04-101
    (Enforcement - Air)
     
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by J.P. Novak):
     
    On December 23, 2003, the Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the People of the
    State of Illinois (People), filed a complaint against DuPage Machine Products, Inc. (DuPage
    Machine Products).
    See
    415 ILCS 5/31(c)(1) (2002); 35 Ill. Adm. Code 103.204. The People
    allege that DuPage Machine Products violated Sections 9(b) and 9.1(d)(2) of the Environmental
    Protection Act (415 ILCS 5/9(b) and 9.1(d)(2) (2002)); 35 Ill. Adm. Code 201.302(a),
    254.132(a), and 254.137(a); 40 C.F.R. 63.467(b) and 63.468(f) and (h), as enforceable under
    Section 9.1(d) of the Act (35 Ill. Adm. Code 5/9.1(d) (2002)); and conditions 6(b)(v)(A) and
    (b)(v)(B) and 7(b) and (c) of federally enforceable state operating permit (FESOP) number
    97050122. The People further allege that DuPage Machine Products violated these provisions by
    failing to maintain required records and submit required reports to the Agency. The complaint
    concerns DuPage Machine Products’s screw products manufacturing facility at 99 International
    Boulevard, Glendale Heights, DuPage 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 DuPage Machine Products 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 DuPage Machine
    Products 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 January 22, 2004, by a vote of 5-0.
     
    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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