ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February
    1,
    1996
    BORG WARNER AUTOMOTIVE
    )
    AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
    )
    CORPORATION,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB96-165
    )
    (UST
    -
    Appeal)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    )
    ORDER OF
    THE
    BOARD:
    On January 29,
    1996, Borg Warner Automotive Automatic Transmission Systems
    Corporation (Borg Warner) filed a petition forreview ofan illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency (Agency) determination concerning Borg Warner’s Site Classification Work Plan.
    The
    Agency issued
    its final determination on December 21,
    1995.
    The final determination concerns
    Borg Warner’s sitelocated at 700
    South 25th Avenue, Bellwood, Cook County, Illinois.
    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 ofthe 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 ofthe Board shall promptly issue appropriate directions to that assigned
    hearing officer.
    The assigned hearing officer shall
    inform
    the Clerk ofthe Board ofthe time and location
    ofthe hearing at least 40 days in advance ofhearing so that public notice ofhearing may be
    published.
    After hearing, the hearing officer shall submit an exhibit list, a statement
    regarding
    credibility ofwitnesses and all actual exhibits to the Board within five days ofthe 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 beforethe statutory
    or deferred decision deadline.
    Absent any friture
    waivers ofthe decision deadline, the statutory decision deadline is now May 28,
    1996 (120 days
    afterJanuary 29,
    1996); the Board meeting immediately preceding the due date is scheduled for
    May 16,
    1996.
    2
    Ifafter appropriate consultation with the parties, theparties fail to provide an acceptable
    hearing date or if after an attempt the hearing officer is unable to
    consult with the parties, the
    hearingofficer shall unilaterally set a hearing date in conformancewith the schedule above.
    The
    hearingofficer and the parties are encouraged to expedite this proceeding as much
    as possible.
    The
    Board
    notes that Board rules
    (35.111. Adm.
    Code 105.102) require the Agency to filethe
    entire Agency record in this matter
    within
    14 days ofnotice ç~the
    petition.
    This order will not appear in the Board’s opinion volumes.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk ofthe Illinois Po
    tionControl Board,
    hereby
    certify
    that the
    above order was adoptedon the
    /~
    day of
    _~
    ~.
    1996,
    by a vote of
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    I
    Dorothy M.,4tinn, Clerk
    Illinois Poll&ion Control Board

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