IlLINOIS
    POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March21,
    1996
    LAIDLAW WASTE SYSTEMS,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 96-192
    )
    (Permit Appeal
    -
    Land
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    Ninety-Day Extension)
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by
    C.A. Manning):
    On March
    12,
    1996 the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency)
    and
    Laidlaw
    Waste Systems (Laidlaw) filed ajoint notice of extension of the 35-day appeal period pursuant to
    Section 40 of the Enviromnental Protection Act, relatingto a February 8,
    1996 Agency
    determination regarding Recyclers’s permit application.
    The Agency requested the extension
    “to
    May 8,
    1996, or any other date not more than a total of 90 days from the date of the Agency’s
    final determination.”
    P.A.
    88-690 (SB 1724) effective January 24, 1995 amends Section 40(a)(1), which
    governs the permit appeal process, to provide:
    the 35-day period for petitioningfor a hearing may be extended for aperiod of
    time not to exceed 90 days by written notice provided to the Board from the
    applicant and the Agency within the initial appeal period.
    As the Board maintains its files by docket numberonly, the Board will reserve docket
    PCB 96-192 for any appeal which may be filed by Laidlaw.
    In the event that Laidlaw fails to file
    an appeal on or before May
    8, 1996 (the 90th day after February 8,
    1996), the Board will dismiss
    the docket as unnecessary.
    A $75.00 filing fee will, of course, be required at such time as
    Laidlaw files such petition.
    IT IS
    SO
    ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn,
    Clerk ofthe Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby certify that the
    above order was adoptedon thec~?i~
    day of
    /h~t~4Y
    ,
    1996, by a vote of
    1-0
    .
    DorothyM.~finn,Clerk
    Illinois Pollkvton Control Board

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