ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL

BOARD

March 16,

1995

BTL SPECIALTY RESINS

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CORPORATIONS,

Petitioner,

V.

)

PCB 95—98

(Variance-RCRA)

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY,

)

)

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE BOARD:

On March 14,

1995, BTL Specialty Resins Corporation

(BTL)

filed a petition for variance regarding its facility located at

3350 West 131st Street, Blue Island, 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 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 hearing, 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 July

12,

1995

(120 days from March 14,

1995);

the Board meeting

immediately preceding the due date is scheduled for June 15,

1995.

If after appropriate consultation with the parties, the

parties fail to provide an acceptable hearing date or

if after an

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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 104.180) require the Agency to file its recommendation for

disposition of the petition within 30 days of filing 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 Illinois Pollution Contro~lc—

Board, hereby certify that the above order was adopted on the /

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day of

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Dorothy M./çlunn, Cle k

Illinois ~Ølution

Control Board