TLLTNOIS POLLUtION CONTROL BOARD
    December 20, 1995
    A.E. STALEY MANUFACTURING
    )
    COMPANY,
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 96-71
    (Variance—Water, NPDES)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION
    AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD:
    (by
    E. Dunham):
    On December
    4,
    1995,
    A.
    E. Staley Manufacturing Company
    (Staley)
    filed an amended petition for variance from its NPDES
    permit for its facility located in Decatur, Macon County,
    Illinois.
    Staley has requested a hearing on its petition.
    (Am.
    Pet.
    at
    9.)
    This matter is accepted for hearing.
    The hearing must be scheduled and completed in a timely
    manner,
    consistent with Board practices and the applicable
    statutory decision deadline,
    or the decision deadline as extended
    by a waiver (petitioner may file a waiver of the statutory
    decision deadline pursuant to
    35 Ill. Adm. Code 101.105).
    The
    Board will assign a hearing officer to conduct hearings
    consistent with this order, and the Clerk of the Board shall
    promptly issue appropriate directions to that assigned hearing
    officer.
    The assigned hearing officer shall inform the Clerk of the
    Board or the time and location or the hearing at least 40 days in
    advance of hearing so that public notice of hearing may be
    published.
    After hearing, the hearing officer shall submit an
    exhibit list,
    a statement regarding credibility of witnesses and
    all actual exhibits to the Board within five days of the hearing.
    Any briefing schedule shall provide for final filings as
    expeditiously as possible and,
    in time—limited cases,
    no later
    than 30 days prior to the decision due date, which is the final
    regularly scheduled Board meeting date on or before the statutory
    or deferred decision deadline.
    Absent any future waivers of the
    decision deadline, the statutory decision deadline is now April
    2,
    1996
    (120 days from December 4,
    1995); the Board meeting
    immediately preceding the due date is scheduled for March 21,
    1996.
    4
    If after appropriate consultation with the parties, the
    parties fail to provide an acceptable hearing date or if after an
    attempt the hearing officer is unable to consult with the
    parties, the hearing officer shall unilaterally set a hearing
    date in conformance with the schedule above.
    The hearing officer
    and the parties are encouraged to expedite this proceeding as
    much as possible. The Board notes that Board rules
    (35 Ill.
    Adm.
    Code 104.180) require the Aciencv to file its recommendation for
    di~po~itionof the petition within
    30
    days of filing of the
    petition.
    This order will not appear in the Board’s opinion volumes.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify that the above order was adopted on the
    ‘ö~-’
    day of
    _________________________
    ,
    1995,
    by a vote of
    7—c’
    A.
    ~i~-’
    Dorothy M./’/unn, Clerk
    Illinois ~fllution Control Board

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