ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    May 16, 1996
    LAIDLAW WASTE SYSTEMS, INC.
    (Coles County Landfill),
    Petitioner,
    v.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 96-192
    (Permit Appeal - Land)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
    On March 12, 1996 the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) and Laidlaw
    Waste Systems, Inc. (Laidlaw) filed a notice of extension of the 35-day appeal period pursuant
    to Section 40 of the Environmental Protection Act, relating to a February 8, 1996 Agency
    determination regarding Laidlaw's permit application for its facility located in Coles County,
    Illinois. On May 8, 1996 the Board received Laidlaw’s petition for review. 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
    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 September 5,
    1996 (120 days from May 8, 1996); the Board meeting immediately preceding the due date is
    scheduled for September 5, 1996.
    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.
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    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 Agency to
    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 Board, hereby certify that
    the above order was adopted on the _______ day of _____________, 1996, by a vote of
    ______________.
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    Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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