ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January 18,
    1996
    WEST SUBURBAN RECYCLING
    )
    AND
    ENERGY CENTER,
    )
    Petitioner,
    PCB96—155
    v.
    )
    (Permit Appeal-Land)
    )
    ILLINOIS
    ENVIRONNENTAL
    )
    PCB 96-156
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    (Permit Appeal-Air)
    )
    (Consolidated)
    Respondent.
    ORDER
    OF THE BOARD:
    on January 8,
    1996,
    west
    Suburban Recycling and Energy
    Center
    (West Suburban) filed two petitions for review of permit
    regarding its facility,
    located in the Villages of Summit and
    I4cCook, Cook County Illinois.
    These matters are accepted for
    hearing.
    PCB
    95-155 and 95-156 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
    95-155 involves the Agency’s December 22, 1995 denial of a solid
    waste management development permit, while PCB 96—156 involves
    the simultaneous denial of an air quality construction permit.
    As the permit appeals involve the same site,
    the Board on its own
    motion consolidates these cases in the interest of administrative
    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 a~ignedhearing officer
    ~hal1
    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
    2
    decision deadline, the statutory decision deadline is now May 7,
    1996
    (120 days from January
    8,
    1996); the Board meeting
    immediately preceding the due date is scheduled for May 2,
    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.
    Adin.
    Code 105.102) require the Agency to file the entire Agency record
    of the permit applications 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 M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereb
    certify that the above order was adopted on the
    day of
    _________________
    ,
    1996, by a vote of
    7~’
    I
    ________
    Dorothy M.//~unn,Clerk
    Illinois ~j5llutionControl Board
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