ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
April 6,
1995
THOMAS
BROWN
)
(TOM’S CORNER FACILITY),
)
Petitioner,
)
v.
)
PCB 95—111
)
(Variance-Air)
ILLINOIS
ENVIRONMENTAL
)
PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
)
Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by J.
Ii):
On March 27, 1995,
Thomas Brown
(Tom’s Corner Facility)
filed a petition for variance regarding its facility located at
1343 South Lewis Avenue,
Waukegan, Lake County,
Illinois. This
facility is
located in the Chicago ozone nonattainment area.
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 hearing, 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
25,
1995 (120 days from March 27,
1995); the Board meeting
immediately preceding the due date is scheduled for July 20,
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
2
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.
Adiu.
Code 104.180~reauire the Agency to file its recommendation for
disposition of the petition within 30 days of fi1inc~of the
petition.
This order will not appear in the Board’s opinion volumes.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
Board, hereby ce tify that the above order was adopted on the
____
day of
_________________________
,
1995, by
vote of 7°
Dorothy ~4’/
Gunn,
Clerk
Illinois~’ollutionControl Board