ILLINOIS
    POLLUTION
    CONTROL
    BOARD
    January
    19,
    1978
    ENVIRONMENTAL PPO~ECTION
    AGENCY,
    )
    Complainant,
    )
    )
    PCB
    75~ll2
    METROPOLITAN SANITARY DISTRICT OF
    )
    GREATER CHICAGO,
    )
    Respondent~
    ORDER OF ThE BOARD
    (by Mr~Goodman):
    On January
    9,
    1978,
    the Enviionmental Protection Agency
    (Agency) filed a Motion to Strike certain letters addressed to ~
    Board by the Hearing Officer
    and a Motion to Reconsider
    the
    Board’s
    Order of November 23,
    1977, allowing the Hearing Officer to chair
    a negotiating
    session between the parties herein.
    First,
    the
    Board notes that,
    although copies of
    the
    Hearinci Officer’s letters
    were sent to the Agency,
    no response to the Hearing Officer~s
    request to chair a negotiating session was filed with the Board
    until this Motion for Reconsideration was filed, a month after a
    negotiating session was held.
    Furthermore, regardless of~EH~
    contents of the Hearing Officer’s letter of ~oven.ther21,
    1977,
    the
    lengthy record already developed in this case indicated to the
    Board that an attempt at negotiation
    chaired by the Hearing Officen
    would
    benefit the public as well as the parties.
    The Motion for
    Reconsideration
    is
    denied.
    Finally
    the Board
    is fully capable
    of
    ~istinguishing between
    evidentiary
    and non-evidentiary documents
    in its files.
    The Motion to Strike is
    denied.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    Mr.
    Young abstains.
    I,
    Christan
    L, Moffett, Clerk
    of
    the Illinois
    Pollution
    Control
    Board, hereby certify the above
    Order was adopted
    on the J~day
    of
    ,
    1978
    by a
    vote
    of
    __________
    _____
    Christan
    L. Mo
    -
    ,
    Clerk
    Illinois Polluti
    Control Bcsrd
    29
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