ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    April 3, 1997
    INGLESIDE CITGO SERVICE, INC.,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 97-120
    (UST - Reimbursement)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
    On January 16, 1997 the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) and Ingleside
    Citgo Services, Inc. (petitioner) filed a joint notice of extension of the 35-day appeal period
    pursuant to Section 40 of the Environmental Protection Act. The Agency requested the extension
    “to March 31, 1997, or any other date not more than a total of 90 days from the date of the
    Agency's final determination.”
    The Agency issued a final reimbursement decision on
    December
    31, 1996
    , accompanied by Attachment A which contained the stated reasons for deductions.
    The final determination concerns the petitioner’s
     
    site located at 25970 West Highway 134,
    Ingleside, Lake County, Illinois. On
    March 31, 1997
    the Board received the petitioner’s
    petition for review. 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 of the time and
    location of 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
     
    July 29, 1997 (120 days from
    March 31, 1997
    ); the Board meeting immediately preceding
    the decision deadline is scheduled for July 24, 1997.
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    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 105.102) require
    the Agency to file the entire Agency record of the reimbursement application within 14 days of
    notice of the petition.
    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 _____ day of ___________, 1997, by a vote of
    ______________.
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    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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