ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    October
    20,
    1994
    INDIAN REFINING LIMITED
    PARTNERSHIP,
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB 94—287
    (Variance)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by M. McFawn):
    On October
    6,
    1994,
    Petitioner Indian Refining Limited
    Partnership filed a petition for variance regarding
    its refinery
    in Lawrence County.
    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).
    A
    hearing officer shall be assigned to conduct hearings.
    The Clerk
    of the Board shall promptly issue appropriate directions to the
    assigned hearing officer consistent with this order.
    The assigned hearing officer shall inform the Clerk of the
    Board as soon as possible of the time and location of the hearing
    since
    the public notice of hearing
    must be published at least
    21 days
    in advance thereof.
    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 February
    3,
    1995;
    the Board meeting immediately
    preceding the due date
    is
    scheduled for January 12,
    1995.
    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
    104.180) require the Agency to file
    its recommendation for
    2
    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 Control
    Board, hereby ce±4fy that the above order was adopted on the
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    day of
    (J~7-/~~,
    ,
    1994,
    by a vote of
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    Dorothy N.
    Gu~n,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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