ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

September 1,

1994

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION,

)

POWERTRAIN DIVISION,

Petitioner,

)

v.

)

PCB 91—219

(Permit Appeal)

ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY,

)

)

Respondent.

ORDER OF THE

BOARD

(by C.A. Manning):

This matter is before the Board pursuant to a joint motion

for stay of hearing filed on August 16,

1994 by General Motors

Corporation, Powertrain Division (“GM”)

and the Illinois

Environmental Protection Agency (“Agency”).

On November 8,

1991,

GM filed a permit appeal challenging conditions in an NPDES

permit issued on October

9,

1991.

The hearing in this case has

been stayed while, among other things, the parties pursue

settlement.

The motion to extend the stay indicates that the

parties are continuing with their negotiations, and they believe

an amicable resolution of this matter is possible.

Accordingly, we hereby grant an extension of the stay in

this matter until July 1,

1995.

Though the parties have

requested a stay until August 15,

1995 and have provided a waiver

of the decision deadline until October 31,

1995, we must allow

120 days upon the stay being lifted for a hearing, the filing

briefs and deliberation by the Board, should a hearing become

necessary.

If this case has not yet been dismissed and the parties wish

to conclude negotiations past July

1,

1995,

the petitioner must

again seek an extension of the stay before the Board and provide

an additional waiver of the statutory decision deadline.

In the

interim, the petitioner is directed to file a status report in

this case on or before December 8,

1994.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

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I, Dorothy

M.

Gunn,

Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

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

/~-

day of

~

,

1994, by a vote of ~

Dorothy N. dunn,

Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board