ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March
    3,
    1994
    GENERAL
    MOTORS
    CORPORATION,
    POWERTRAIN
    DIVISION,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    PCB 91—219
    (Permit Appeal)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    ORDER
    OF THE BOARD
    (by C.A. Manning):
    This matter
    is before the Board pursuant to a joint status
    report filed on February 25,
    1994 by General Motors Corporation,
    Powertrain
    Division
    (“GM”)
    and
    the
    Illinois
    Environmental
    Protection Agency
    (“Agency”).
    On November
    8,
    1991,
    GM filed
    a
    permit appeal challenging conditions in an NPDES permit issued on
    October 9,
    1991. For the past six months, the hearing in this case
    has been under continuance while,
    among other things, the parties
    pursue negotiations.
    The status report indicates the parties are
    continuing with their negotiations, that they believe an amicable
    resolution of this matter is possible, and there is no compelling
    reason to hold a hearing at this time.
    Based
    on
    the
    parties’
    representation
    that
    settlement
    is
    probable and a hearing is not necessary, on our
    own
    motion, we are
    hereby entering a stay in this case until August 15,
    1994.
    If at
    a later time the parties wish to proceed to hearing, petitioner may
    file a motion to lift the stay and schedule hearing.
    A statutory decision deadline waiver was filed extending the
    decision until December 31,
    1994, therefore,
    if this case has not
    yet been
    dismissed and the parties wish to conclude negotiations
    past August 15,
    1994, petitioner must file for an extension of the
    stay and an additional waiver of the statutory decision deadline.
    The Board requires
    120 days
    in which
    to schedule hearing,
    give
    public notice, establish a briefing schedule, receive and review
    the transcript and fully deliberate on the matter.
    Under such time
    constraints, the Board will be required to direct that this matter
    be
    scheduled
    for
    hearing
    in
    August
    without
    a
    waiver
    of
    the
    statutory deadline.
    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
    _____
    of
    ______________,
    1994, by a vote of
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    /i~
    Dorothy M.
    Gi,4n,
    Clerk
    Illinois PolQeütion Control Board

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