ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

January

4,

1996

STEPAN COMPANY,

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 96—138

(UST-Appeal)

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

)

PROTECTION AGENCY,

)

)

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD:

On December

22,

1995,

Stepan Company filed

a petition for

review of an Illinois Enviornmental Protection Agency

(“Agency”)

November

17,

1995

final

determination

concerning

petitioner’s

Physical Soil Classification Plan/Site Classification Completion

Report.

The final determination concerns Stepan’s site located at

22

W.

Frontage Road,

Northfield,

Cook

County,

Illinois.

This

matter is accepted for hearing.

The hearing must

be

scheduled

and

completed

in

a

timely

manner, consistent with Board practices.

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 ~3Odays 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 decigion deadline

ig

now July 19,

1996; the Board meeting immediately preceding the decision deadline

is scheduled for June 20,

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.

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

---

2

105.102) require the Agency to file the entire Agency record of the

reimbursement application within 14..days of notice of the netition.

This order will not appear in the Board’s opinion volumes.

IT

IS

SO

ORDERED.

I,

Dorothy

Jd.~.

Gunn,

Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

B9jpd, hereby c~4ifythat the above order was adopted on the

*~

day of

_________________,

1996,

by a vote o

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7

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Dorothy M ,?unn, Clerk

Illinois ~y1lution Control Board