ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
April
18,
1996
STEPAN COMPANY,
)
)
Petitioner,
)
)
PCB96-138
v.
)
(UST
-
Reimbursement)
)
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
)
PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
)
Respondent.
)
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by G.T.
Girard):
This
matter is before the Board pursuant to an Illinois
Environmental
Protection
Agency (Agency)
motion for an extension of time to file the Agency
Record.
Stepan
Company filed this
appeal of the Agency’s underground
storage tank reimbursement decision
on December
22,
1995.
The Agency requests the Board to grant an extension ofthe
14 day
period for filing the Agency Record to any other date not less than 21
days from the date of
the scheduled public
hearing, if a hearing
is
scheduled.
The Agency
states that no prejudice will result in granting the extension, as the
petitioner
is already
in possession of the majority of documents which would constitute the
Record.
Additionally, the Agency states that
the parties are engaged in negotiations and would
be
willing to submit status reports concerning the progress of the matter.
No hearing has been
scheduled and petitioner has filed an open waiver in this matter.
The Board grants
the Agency’s motion for an extension of time.
The Agency Record
is
now due
30 days prior to the date of a
scheduled hearing in
this matter.
The Hearing
Officer assigned to this
matter when scheduling
a hearing, in
the same order,
shall also
establish the
filing date of the Agency Record consistent with this
order.
IT IS SO
ORDERED.
I, Dorothy M.
Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board,
hereby certify that
the ab9ve order was adopted on the I 2~day of
~
1996,
by a vote of
Illinois
Control Board