ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    July
    7,
    1995
    WEST SUBURBAN RECYCLING
    )
    and ENERGY CENTER,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    PCB 95—119
    V.
    )
    (Permit Appeal-Land)
    )
    ILLTNOTS
    ENVTRONT4RNPATJ
    )
    PCB
    95-125
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    (Permit Appeal-Air)
    )
    (Ninety—Day Extensions)
    Respondent.
    )
    (Consolidated)
    ORDER OF ThE BOARD:
    By order of April
    6,
    1995, pursuant to P.A.
    88-690, the
    Board granted West Suburban Recycling and Energy Center
    (West
    Suburban) an extension of time through July 2,
    1995 in which to
    file
    an
    appeal of the February
    10,
    1995 Illinois Environmental
    Protection Agency (Agency) denial of its permit applications.
    On
    July 3,
    1995, West Suburban,
    filed two petitions for permit
    review.
    These appeals were docketed as PCB 95-119 and PCB
    95-
    125,
    PCB 95-119 and 95-125 each involve West Suburban’s proposed
    resource recovery facility located on portions of a 36—acre site
    in the Villages of Summit and McCook, Cook County Illinois.
    PCB
    95-119 involves the Agency February 27, 1995 denial a solid waste
    management development permit, while PCB 95-125 involves the
    simultaneous denial of an air quality construction permit.
    As
    the permit appeals involve the same site,
    and petitioner has
    waived the decision deadline in each case up to December 8,
    1995,
    the Board on its own motion consolidates these cases in the
    interest if administration economy.
    These matters are 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
    I
    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.
    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.
    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 Aciency to file the entire Agency record
    of the permit application within 14 days of notice of the
    petition.
    This order will not appear in the Board’s opinion volumes.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy N.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby qeTtify that the above order was adopted on the
    ____
    day of
    __________________
    ,
    1995,
    by a vote of
    7°
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    4~’
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    ‘~‘DorothyM. c~n, Clerk
    Illinois PotJ/ution Control Board

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