ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    December 14,
    1994
    THE
    DOW
    CHEMICAL
    COMPANY,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB 94—370
    )
    (Variance)
    )
    )
    ILLINOIS
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER
    OF THE
    BOARD
    (by M. NcFawn):
    On December
    2,
    1994, The Dow Chemical Company, filed a
    petition for variance regarding its facility,
    located near
    Arsenal Road and Interstate 55, Channahon, Will County,
    Illinois.
    The petition was accompanied by a motion for leave to file a
    special appearance pursuant to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 101.107(b). This
    motion is granted.
    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 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
    1,
    1995
    (120 days from December 2,
    1994); the Board meeting
    immediately preceding the decision deadline is scheduled for
    March 16,
    1995.
    If after appropriate consultation with the parties, the
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    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 104.180) reauire the A~encvto file its recommendation for
    disiDosition of the ~etition within 30 days of filinci~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 Control
    —~
    Board, hereby c~rtifythat the above order was adopted on the
    ____
    day of
    ____________________________
    ,
    1994, by a vote of
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    ~
    4L.
    Dorothy M./~unn,Clerk
    Illinois I~llutionControl Board

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