ILLINOIS
POLLUTION
CONTROL
BOARD
November
20, 2008
ECEVED
CLERK’S
OFFICE
1N
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STATE
OF
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VARIOUS
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CATEGORIES:
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(Rulemaking
- Air)
Pollution
Control
Board
AMENDMENTS
TO
35 ILL.
ADM.
CODE
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PARTS211AND217
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HEARING
OFFICER
ORDER
The first
hearing in
this
proceeding
took
place
Tuesday,
October
14,
2008, in Springfield.
On
Friday,
October
24, 2008,
the Board
received
the transcript
of that
third hearing
(Tr.)
and
posted
the transcript
to its Web
site
at
www.ipcb.state.iLus.
At the
conclusion
of that hearing,
the
participants
addressed
a number
of procedural
issues.
First,
after
specific spreadsheets
generated
a number
of questions
at hearing,
the Agency
committed
to supply
those
spreadsheets
to the
Board
by
October 21,
2008 so
that
the Board
could
make available
an Excel
version
to participants
who
sought
that
version
of the
documents.
Tr. at
203.
Under
this docket
number
in the
Clerk’s Office
On-Line
(COOL),
the docket
entry
dated
October
15, 2008,
lists the
documents
available
in Excel
and
includes
information
on
obtaining
copies
of
them.
Second, in
responding
to question
posed at
the first hearing,
the Agency
sought
to
wait
for the filing
of the transcript
to
ensure
that they
responded
to the specific
questions
raised.
Tr.
at 203.
The Agency
committed
to filing
written responses
to
those
questions
by Wednesday,
November
5,
2008, and
filed them
on
that date
as
Public Comment
#1.
Third, for
the
second hearing
Tuesday,
December
9,
2008, in Chicago,
the
deadline
for
prefihing
testimony
is Tuesday,
November
25,
2008.
Tr. at 203.
The
“mailbox
rule”
at 35
Ill.
Adm.
Code
101.300(b)(2)
does
not apply
to the
filing
of this
prefiled testimony,
and all filings
must be
received by
the
Clerk’s
Office
no later
than
4:30 PM
on
Tuesday,
November
25,
2008.
See T.
at
203-04.
However,
documents
may be
filed
electronically
though
the Clerk’s
Office
On-Line
(COOL)
from
the Board’s
Web
site
at
www.ipcb.state.il.us.
Any
questions
about
electronic
filing through
COOL
should
be
directed
to
the
Clerk’s
Office
at
(312)
814-3629.
IT
IS
SO
ORDERED.
Timothy
J.
Fox, Hearing
Officer
Illinois
Pollution
Control
Board
100W. Randolph
St.,
Suite
11-500
Chicago,
Illinois 60601
3
12-814-6085!foxt@ipcb.state.il.us