ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
October 20,
1994
SAFETY-KLEEN DOLTON RECYCLE
)
CENTER,
Petitioner,
v.
)
PCB 93—205
(Permit Appeal)
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY,
)
Respondent.
ORDER OF THE BOARD
(by
G. T
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Girard):
This matter is before the Board on a October
17,
1994,
Notion to file the record instanter,
filed by the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency (Agency).
This petition was
filed with the Board on November 1,
1993, and the Agency states
that it received notice of the petition on November 3,
1993.
Pursuant to 35
Ill. Adm. Code 105. 102 (a) (4), the Agency record is
to be filed with the Pollution Control Board within 14 days “upon
notice of the petition”.
The record was therefore due to be
filed on November 17,
1993.
The Agency explains in the instant motion that the
petitioner (Safety—Kleen) has approximately fifteen separate
appeals pending before the Board.
Most of these permit appeals
have several issues of law and fact in common according to the
Agency.
During the past year, the Agency and Safety-Kleen have
engaged in numerous attempts to settle all of the pending permit
appeals.
The Agency further states that the instant case is the
only case which did not contain common issues of law and fact in
relation to the other pending appeals.
The Agency record, which
is voluminous, was not filed during the settlement negotiations
because both parties believed that the instant appeal could be
resolved and, if resolved, the record would not need to be filed
with the Board.
The Agency states that petitioner’s counsel has
been fully informed concerning the Agency record and has no
objection to granting this motion.
In light of the fact that the petitioner does not object,
the Board hereby grants the Agency motion to file the record
instanter.
However,
in the future, the Board instructs the
Agency to file a request for stay of the proceeding or other
appropriate motion, such as a motion for extension of time.
In
this case the Board had no way of knowing that this record was
voluminous, that the parties were negotiating, or that there were
extenuating circumstances which precluded a timely filing of the
Agency record.
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
I, Dorothy N.
Gunn,
Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby
cer
fy
that the above order was adopted on the ,~h
day of
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1994,
by a vote of
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