ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
May 4,
1995
ESG WATTS,
INC.,
)
(TAYLOR RIDGE/ANDALUSIA
)
LANDFILL),
)
)
Petitioner,
V.
)
PCB 95—133
)
(Permit Appeal-Land)
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
)
PROTECTION
AGENCY,
)
)
Respondent.
ESG WATTS,
INC.,
(TAYLOR RIDGE/ANDALUSIA
)
LANDFILL),
)
)
Petitioner,
)
v.
)
PCB 95—134
)
(Permit Appeal-Land)
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
)
PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
)
Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD:
On April 24,
1995,
ESG Watts,
Inc.,
filed two petitions for
permit review regarding its solid and special waste landfill
located in Rock Island County,
Illinois,
coitunonly known as the
Taylor Ridge
(or Andalusia) Landfill.
These appeals were
docketed as PCB 95—133 and PCB 95-134. These matters are accepted
for hearing.
As each of these appeals involves denial of waste
stream approvals for the identical reason, the Board on its own
motion consolidates these cases 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.
Adiu. 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 of the time and location of the hearing at least 40 days in
2
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 August
22,
1995
(120 days from April 24,
1995); the Board meeting
immediately preceding the due date is scheduled for August 17,
1995.
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 Iii.
Adin.
Code 105.102) require the Agency to file the entire Aaencv record
of the permit application within 14 days of notice of the
petition.
This order will not appear in the Board’s opinion volumes.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Dorothy N. Gunn,
Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board, hereby, certify that the above order was adopted on the
____
day of
_________________
,
1995,
by a vote of
~
.
Dorothy M.
q4~’in, Clerk
Illinois Po,~1utionControl Board
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