ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January
    11,
    1995
    ACME
    STEEL
    COMPANY,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 91—28
    PCB 92-2
    )
    (Permit
    Appeal)
    ILLINOIS
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J. Theodore Meyer):
    On January
    5,
    1995,
    petitioner Acme Steel Company
    (Acme) and
    respondent the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency)
    filed a joint status report in this proceeding.
    The parties
    recount the progress on Acme’s petition for adjusted standard (AS
    94-8), which would,
    if granted, resolve this case with regard to
    the thermal permit limitations.
    The parties state that the
    Agency filed its recommendation on November 28,
    1994,
    recommending that the requested adjusted standard be granted,
    subject to conditions.
    In regard
    to
    the
    issues
    in
    this
    case
    which are not the subject of the adjusted standard petition, the
    Agency intends to issue a draft permit addressing those issues.
    However, the parties state that the draft has not been issued due
    to personnel shortages at the Agency, and because the draft
    permit will have to address the Board’s decision in the adjusted
    standard petition, when that decision is made.
    The parties ask
    that this matter be stayed until resolution of the pending
    adjusted standard petition, “with the additional consideration
    that USEPA response time may require another motion for a stay of
    these proceedings.”
    (Status Report at 4.)
    The Board accepts the status report.
    We will extend the
    current stay until June 15,
    1995.
    However, although we are
    sympathetic to the efforts to resolve this dispute through
    negotiation, we will not indefinitely delay substantive action on
    this proceeding, which began almost four years ago.
    The parties
    are directed to file an additional status report no later than
    June 5,
    1995.
    We expect to see concrete progress in the adjusted
    standard proceeding.
    IT
    IS
    SO
    ORDERED.
    2
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify that the above order was adopted on the
    //1~~
    day of
    ~
    ,
    1995, by a vote of
    ‘~
    Dorothy M.7~unn,Clerk
    Illinois P~1lutionControl Board

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