ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March
    9,
    1995
    MEDICAL DISPOSAL,
    )
    SERVICES,
    INC.,
    Petitioner,
    v
    )
    PCB 95—75
    (Permit Appeal-Air)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    MEDICAL DISPOSAL,
    SERVICES,
    INC.,
    Petitioner,
    V.
    )
    PCB 95-76
    (Permit Appeal—Medical Waste)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    (Consolidated)
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD:
    On March
    3,
    1995,
    in PCB 95-75, Medical Disposal Services,
    Inc.
    filed a petition for review of an Illinois Environmental
    Protection Agency
    (Agency)
    denial of its application for an air
    permit for the construction of a medical waste treatment
    facility.
    The final determination concerns Medical Disposal
    Services, Inc. ‘s facility located at 16565 Center Avenue,
    Harvey,
    Cook County,
    Illinois.
    This matter is accepted for hearing.
    On March
    3,
    1995,
    in PCB 95-76, Medical Disposal Services,
    Inc. filed a petition for review of an Illinois Environmental
    Protection Agency
    (Agency) denial of its application for a
    development permit
    (land)
    for the construction of
    a medical waste
    treatment facility.
    The final determination concerns Medical
    Disposal Services, Inc.’s facility located at 16565 Center
    Avenue, Harvey, Cook County, Illinois.
    This matter is accepted
    for hearing.
    On March
    3,
    1995, Medical Disposal Services also filed a
    motion to consolidate these cases which involve the same site.
    The Board grants the motion.
    The hearing must be scheduled and completed in a timely
    manner,
    consistent with Board practices and the applicable
    2
    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
    1,
    1995
    (120 days from March
    3,
    1995); the Board meeting immediately
    preceding the decision deadline is scheduled for June 15,
    1995.
    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 A~encvto file the entire Agency record
    of the permit application within
    14 days of notice of the
    petition.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    B ar
    ,
    hereby certify that the above order was adopted on the
    ____
    day of
    ~ 1995,
    by a vote of
    ________
    Dorothy
    M.
    ,G,xinn,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pôjlution Control Board

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