ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

January

4,

1996

AMOCO OIL COMPANY,

)

Petitioner,

v.

)

PCB 96—92

(UST-Appeal)

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

)

PROTECTION AGENCY,

)

)

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD:

On December

22,

1995,

the Illinois Environmental Protection

Agency

(Agency)

and

the

Amoco

Oil

Company

filed

a

notice

of

extension of the 35-day appeal period pursuant to Section 40 of the

Act,

relating to the September

26,

1995 Agency rejection of the

Amoco’s Site Classification Plan.

On December 22,

1995, the Board

received the Amoco’s petition for review.

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

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 April 20,

1996; the Board meeting immediately preceding the decision deadline

is scheduled for April 18,

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

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

reimbursement application within 14 days of notice of the petition.

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

IT IS SO ORDERED.

I,

Dorothy M.

Gunn,

Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Contr9L~

Board, hereby certify

the above order was adopted on the

day of

1996, by a

vote of

Clerk

Dorothy M.

Illinois

ion Control Board