RECEIVED
BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
CLERK’S OFFICE
NOV
18
2004
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
)
STATE
OF
ILLINOIS
PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
Pollution Control Board
)
Complainant,
)
AC 04-89, AC 04-90, AC 04-91
)
V.
)
(IEPA Nos. 305-04-AC,
306-04-AC and
)
308-04-AC)
EARL andNORMA MARTIN,
)
Respondents.
NOTICE OF FILING
To:
Grant R.
Gulovsen
Barash & Everrett, LLC
256
South Soangetaha Road
Suite 108
Galesburg, Illinois 61402-1408
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on this date I mailed for filingwith the Clerk of the Pollution Control
Board ofthe State of Illinois the following instrument(s) entitled MOTION TO CONSOLDATE.
Respectfully submitted,
Special Assistant Attorney General
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
1021 North Grand Avenue East
P.O. Box 19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
(217)782-5544
Dated:
November
15,
2004
THIS FILING SUBMIUED
ON RECYCLED PAPER
RECEIVED.
CLERK’S OFFICE
BEFORE
THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
NOV
182004
STATE OF ILLINOIS
ILLINOIS
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
)
Pollution Control Board
AGENCY,
)
)
Complainant,
)
AC
04-89
)
)
(IEPA
No. 305-04-AC)
)
EARL and NORMA MARTIN,
)
Respondents.
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
)
AGENCY,
)
)
Complainant,
)
AC 04-90
)
V.
)
(IEPA No. 306-04-Ac)
)
EARL and NORMA MARTIN,
)
Respondents.
)
ILLINOIS
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
)
AGENCY,
)
)
Complainant,
)
AC 04-91
)
V.
)
(IEPA No. 308-04-AC)
)
EARL and NORMA MARTIN,
)
Respondents.
)
MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE
FOR PURPOSES
OF HEARING
NOW COMES
the
Complainant,
the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (“Illinois
EPA”), by andthrough its attorney, Special Assistant Attorney General Michelle M. Ryan, pursuant
1
to 35
Ill. Adm.
Code
101 .406 and
101.500, and respectfully states as follows:
(1)
Pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 101.500(b) and 101.502, this motion is directed to the
hearing
officer.
(2)
On
June
24,
2004,
Illinois
EPA issued
three
Administrative
Citations
to
the
Respondents,
based on inspections conducted by Jeff
Port
on May 7, 2004 (308-04-AC), May 10,
2004
(305-04-AC),
and May24, 2004 (306-04-AC) at the
same property
owned and operated by the
Respondents.
(3)
On July 27, 2004, Respondents filed petitions for review with this
Board.
(4)
Theparties and property at issue in thesethree cases
are
identical, Illinois EPA’s main
witnesses are likewise identical,
and the burdens of proofare identical.
(5)
Consolidation forthe purpose ofhearing is in the interest ofconvenient, expeditious,
and
complete determination of claims in each ofthese cases.
(6)
No material prejudice would be caused by consolidating these cases for hearing.
WHEREFORE,
the
Illinois
Environmental
Protection
Agency
requests
that
the Board
consolidate the pending actions against Respondents forpurposes of
hearing.
ILLINOIS
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY,
Complainant
.
Michelle M. Ryan
Special Assistant Attorney General
-
2
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
1021
North Grand Avenue East
P.O. Box
19276
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
(217) 782-5544
Dated:
November
15,
2004
3
PROOF OF SERVICE
I hereby certif~i
that I did on the
15th
day ofNovember 2004, send by U.S.
Mail with postage
thereon fullyprepaid, by depositing in a United States Post OfficeBox a
true
and correct copy ofthe
following instrument(s) entitled MOTION TO CONSOLDATE
To:
Grant R.
Gulovsen
Carol
Sudman
Barash & Everrett, LLC
Hearing Officer
256 South
Soangetaha Road
Illinois Pollution Control Board
Suite
108
1021 North Grand Avenue East
Galesburg, Illinois 61402-1408
P.O. Box
19274
Springfield, Illinois
62794-9274
and the original
and nine (9) true and correct copies ofthe same foregoing instruments on the same
date by U.S. Mail with postage thereon fully prepaid
To:
Dorothy Gunn, Clerk
Pollution Control Board
James R. Thompson Center
100
West Randolph Street, Suite 11-500
Chicago, Illinois 60601
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-
_________
ichelle M. Ryan
Special Assistant Attorney General
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
1021 North Grand Avenue East
P.O. Box
19276
Springfield, Illinois
62794-9276
(217)782-5544
THIS FILING
SUBMITTED ON RECYCLED PAPER
