Legal Opinion
Village of Lombard v. Pollution Control Board
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided May 20, 1977No. 48501PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dooley
The critical issue here is whether the Pollution Control Board, created by the Environmental Protection Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. IIV/2, pars. 1001, 1005), has authority under that act to adopt regulations mandating the regional treatment of water in counties.
The Pollution Control Board promulgated a regulation whereby it divided Du Page County into nine water-treatment regions. (Rules 1101 through 1114 of part XI of chapter 3 (Water Pollution).) Each region, comprised of more than one unit of local government, was required to establish a centralized water-treatment program. The…
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