ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 15, 1996
    MACON COUNTY LANDFILL
    #2 & #3,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
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    PCB 96-247
    (Permit Appeal - Land)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A. Manning):
    On June 3, 1996 Macon County Landfill #2 & #3 (petitioner) filed a notice of extension
    of the 35-day appeal period pursuant to Section 40 of the Environmental Protection Act,
    relating to a May 10, 1996 Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) determination.
    The Agency on June 6, 1996 filed its agreement to an extension through August 8, 1996. The
    final determination concerns the petitioner’s
     
    site located near the City of Decatur in Macon
    County, Illinois. On August 6, 1996 the Board received the petitioner’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.
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    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 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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