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Newsletter #37 6- - December 5, 1971 In PCB 71-51U, EPA v. City of Urbana v. Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District, and Saline Branch Drainage District, and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, the Board dismissed this action on the oral motion of the Complainant, without prejudice. In PCB 71-88, EPA v. Ralston Purina Company, the Board rejected a purported settlement agreement among the company, the Attorney General, and the intervening Bloomington neighbors, and ordered fur ther proceedings to be held. In PCB 71-227, EPA v. Miller Lumber Company, the Board ordered Miller to cease and desist the Open burning of wood refuse and by products at his sawmill near Orchard Mines, Illinois. A penalty of $500 was assessed. In PCB 71-230, EPA v. Pfizer, Inc., the Board penalized Pfizer $1,000 for violations of the Environmental Protection Act, and ordered the company to cease and desist further emissions from its East St. Louis plant in violation of the Act. V' In PCB 71-246, EPA v. Yetter Oil Company, the Board penalized Yetter $500 and ordered the company to cease and desist from dis charging any oil into the waters of the State in violation of anti pollution regulations. Yetter operates an oil field near Colmar, Illinois. In PCB 71-258, EPA v. The Town of Hutsonville, and Joe D. Goff, the Board penalized the respondents $500 and ordered them to cease and desist the operation of a refuse disposal dump in Crawford County until it is in full compliance with open burning and refuse disposal regulations. In PCB 71-260, G.L. Miller Motor Sales, Inc, v. EPA, the Board dismissed this petition seeking a variance from the North Shore Sani tary District sewer connection ban for a new automobile sales facility. In PCB 71-269, Richard P. Glovka v. North Shore Sanitary District, the Board denied a motion by the respondents to dismiss this citizen's complaint which alleges violations with respect to new connections to sewers tributary to overloaded treatment plants of the NSSD. In PCB 71-324, EPA v. Incinerator, Inc., the Board granted an 11-month variance to Incinerator of Cicero, Illinois, to operate an incinerator under a number of conditions, including that the unit shall not be operated in excess of 250 tons of refuse per day at a moisture content of more than 20 percent.