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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1940
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572 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 30 (7) T h e problem seems to be not whether the building is objectionable in appearance or whether gases from the equipment now proposed will create a nuisance, but what will the future programs be? Therefore, the real question is, can an agreement now be drawn to limit the future use of the building to that approved by the University? (8) If such an agreement can be made, the Physical Plant Department would approve the site subject to the following conditions: ( a ) T h a t the University approve the design of all fuel-burning equipment. (b) That exhaust from the stacks shall at all times be invisible—white plumes will not be permitted. (c) That all gases from fuel-burning equipment shall pass through wet-type scrubbers. ( d ) T h a t the Survey shall continue to assume the cost of all gas consumed. ( e ) That the Geological Survey shall agree to remove from the building at its expense any operation or equipment which the University may consider the cause of a public nuisance. (9) In view of the limitations on the use of the building which the University should insist upon for the protection of the campus and the public, the Director of the Physical Plant Department recommends that the Geological Survey be urged to select a site in the vicinity of the new Power Plant. On such a site, the future research programs would not be so restricted. On motion of Mrs. Plumb, the Board reaffirmed its action of April 7» J 939 (Minutes, page 294), that the Coal Research Laboratory be not located in the area of the Natural Resources Building. Mr. Moschel offered the following resolution, and moved its adoption. On vote, the resolution was forthwith adopted unanimously. 2 RESOLUTION Whereas a report from the Director of the Physical Plant Department shows that the question of a site for the industrial research laboratory which is to be used by the Geological Survey should be settled without delay; Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Board grant a site for the construction of a building to be used as an applied or industrial research laboratory by the Geological Survey, in which, among other equipment, there will be installed a briquetting machine and a preheater for demonstrating a process for producing briquettes from Illinois coals in commercial quantities, and for conducting industrial research in fuels; and which building, after the completion of the program above described, will become available to the Geological Survey for general laboratory purposes in connection with its work in investigating means of developing the geological resources of the S t a t e ; Be it further resolved that the site which the Board will assign for the location of the applied or industrial research laboratory for research in fuels as above described shall be in the vicinity of the new Power Plant, inasmuch as it is the policy of the University to locate new structures of this general type away from academic buildings. RESPONSIBILITIES OF STATE BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES A N D CONSERVATION PURSUANT TO LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING EXPERIMENTATION W I T H ILLINOIS COAL BY STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (26) T h e State Board of Natural Resources and Conservation (an administrative agency whose function under the law is to decide all matters pertaining to the State scientific surveys, including research, investigational and scientific work, selection and appointment of members of the scientific staff, cooperation with the University in the use of scientific staff and equipment, and cooperation with allied divisions and departments of the government) has formally defined its responsibilities pursuant to certain legislation pending before the 61st General Assembly of Illinois as follows:
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