ILLINOIS POLLUTION
    CONTROL BOARD
    March
    7,
    1996
    A,F.
    MOORE & ASSOCIATES,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 96-182
    )
    (UST Appeal)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD:
    On February
    16,
    1996, A.F.
    Moore & Associates (Moore) filed a petition for review ofan
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) disapproval ofMoore ‘s Leaking
    Underground Storage Tank Corrective Action Completion Report.
    The Agency disapproved
    Moore !s Leaking Underground Storage Tank Corrective Action Completion Report on January
    12,
    1996.
    The final determination concerns Moore’s facility located at 7444 West 90th Street,
    Bridgeview, 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 of witnesses 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 orbefore the statutory
    or deferred decision deadline.
    Absent any future
    waivers ofthe decision deadline, the statutory decision deadline is now June 15,
    1996 (120 days
    from February
    16,
    1996); the Board meeting immediately preceding the decision deadline
    is
    scheduled for June 6,
    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.
    2
    The Board notes
    that Board rules
    (35
    Ill.
    Adm.
    Code
    105.102) require the Agency to file the
    entire Agency record in this matter within
    14 days ofnotice ofthe petition.
    IT IS
    SO ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk ofthe Illinois Pollution Control Board, hereby certify that the
    above order was adopted on the
    7~’
    day of
    ~Z~?
    t-~t~/-’
    ,
    1996, by a vote of
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    Dorothy M. Gui~C1erk
    Illinois Pollutiq~ControlBoard

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