ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

September

20,

1973

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Complainant,

vs.

)

PCB 72—489

STEPAN CHEMICAL COMPANY,

a

Delaware corporation,

Respondent.

STEPAN CHEMICAL COMPANY,

a

Delaware Corporation,

Petitioner,

vs.

)

PCB 73—184

ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY,

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD

(by Mr. henss)

These two

cases

——

an enforcement and

a variance

——

were

consolidated for hearing which was held on July

19,

1973.

The parties at that time informed

the Hearing Officer

that

they

~iad entered into

an agreement which they believed would

disoose of all

the issues, consistent with the public interest.

The ~iarties described the agreement and said they would file

si~i~d copies of the settlement agreement and

the recommendatio~i

of the EPA

in the following week.

We have not received the signed agreement.

The Agency has

not filed

a Recommendation in

the variance case.

Our decision

in the variance case

is due September

26,

1973.

We are now informed that there

is no

longer an agreement

and the cases should be set for hearing.

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We shall schedule the cases for consolidated hearing

if Stepan Chemical Company gives an appropriate extension

of time within which we can decide the variance case.

If

Stepan Chemical does not provide us with the necessary

waiver, we will decide the variance case on

the record

presented to date and without further hearing.

In that

event,

the cases will be severed and the enforcement case

will be scheduled for hearing.

IT

IS SO ORDERED.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereby certify the above Order was adopted this

~

day of

~

,

1973 by a vote of _____to

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