ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 15,
    1996
    ROYER OIL COMPANY, INC;
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    )
    V.
    )
    PCB 96-177
    )
    (LiST
    Fund)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD:
    On February
    13, 1996, Royer Oil
    Company, Inc. (Royer) filed apetition for reviewof an
    Illinois Environmcntal Protection Agency (Agency) final reimbursement determination from tile
    Underground Storage Tank Fund.
    The Agency issued a final reimbursement decision on January
    9,
    1996 accompanied by attachment A which contains the stated reasons for deductions.
    The
    final determination concerns Royer’s facility located at 200 South Third Street, Greenville, Bond
    County, Illinois.
    This matter is accepted for hearing.
    The hearing must be scheduled and compicted in a timely manner, consistent withBoard
    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 ofthe 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 decision deadline, the statutory decision deadline is now June
    12,
    1996 (120 days
    from February
    13,
    1996); the Board meeting immediately preceding the decision deadline is
    schcdulcd for June 6, 1996.
    If after appropriate consultation with the parties, the parties fail to provide an acceptable
    hearing date or ifalter 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.
    2
    The Board notes that Board rules
    (35
    Iii. Adm. Code
    105.102) require the Agency to file the
    entire Agency record of the reimbursement 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 M. Gunn, Clerk of the Il1inoj~4~ol1ution
    Control Board, hereby certifS’ that the
    above order was adopted on the
    /5~~’
    day of
    ~
    ,
    1996, by a vote of
    7-6
    .
    Dorothy M. ~$Lnn,Clerk
    Illinois Pollthfon Control Board

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