ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    Nay 7,
    1992.
    ROCKFORD PRODUCTS CORPORATION,)
    )
    Petitioner,
    PCB 91—31
    v.
    )
    (Permit Appeal)
    )
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by M.
    Nardulli):
    This matter comes before the Board on a motion to reconsider
    the Board’s April
    9,
    1992,
    order filed
    on April
    24,
    1992.
    The
    motion
    ask that the Board vacate
    its
    April
    9,
    1992
    order which
    directed the hearing officer to schedule this matter for hearing by
    Nay 11,
    1992,
    and to finish all hearings by July 15,
    1992.
    The motion
    to
    reconsider
    states that
    the
    Board
    failed
    to
    follow its own procedural rules by taking action on the Board’s own
    motion
    without providing
    the
    parties
    an
    opportunity
    to
    reply.
    Further, the motion states that the April
    9 order was “improperly
    entered in contravention of the Board’s own rules.”
    The Board is
    not a party to this action; therefore, the Board is not subject to
    the
    procedural
    rules.
    Further,
    the
    Board
    is
    at
    a
    loss
    to
    understand the implication, by the movant, that the Board lacks the
    authority
    to
    control
    its own
    docket.
    The
    Board
    rejects
    these
    arguments as being without merit.
    (See also Heico. Incorporated v.
    Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency,
    PCB
    90-196,
    April
    23,
    1992)
    This case was originally filed 14 months ago and prior to this
    motion, the parties had taken no action on the record other than to
    waive decision deadline to a date certain.
    The motion indicates
    that the parties are continuing to negotiate a potential settlement
    in this matter.
    Therefore, the Board will reconsider its order of
    April 9,
    1992 and the Board will vacate the order setting this case
    for hearing by July 15,
    1992.
    However, the Board will not grant
    the 60 day extension requested in the motion as such a delay would
    not allow suffici.;
    t
    time for hearings to be held prior
    to the
    October
    31,
    1992
    c
    ~ision deadline.
    Therefore the Board directs
    the parties to submit
    a status report to be received by the Board
    no later than August
    1,
    1992.
    The Board notes that the August
    1
    datewill
    allow the Board the time necessary to hold
    a
    hearing
    prior to the October
    31,
    1992 decision deadline,
    if
    a hearing
    is
    necessary.
    133—229
    2
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    Board Member
    B. Forcade concurs.
    I, Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    hereby
    certify that the above
    order
    was
    adopted
    on the
    __________
    day
    of
    ~y)--~
    ~
    ,
    1992,
    by
    a
    vote
    of
    7-0.
    I
    ~
    ~
    ).
    Dorothy N.
    ,Gy~nn,
    Clerk
    Illinois PôJ/lution Control Board
    133—230

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