ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February 17,
    1994
    CENTRAL
    ILLINOIS
    PUBLIC,
    )
    SERVICE
    COMPANY,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 94—54
    )
    (Permit
    Appeal)
    ILLINOIS
    ENVIRONMENTAL,
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by C. A. Manning):
    On February 4,
    1994,
    Central Illinois Public Service Company
    (CIPS)
    filed a petition for permit review regarding its Newton
    Power facility, located in Jasper County.
    On February 7,
    1994,
    CIPS filed an amended petition to correct certain deficiencies in
    the initial filing.
    CIPS also requests that the Board direct the
    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) to provide,
    prior to the hearing, all information regarding its decision. The
    Board directs the Agency to file its answer pursuant to 35 Iii.
    Adm Code 105.102(b) (5) consisting of the permit application,
    permit denial or issuance letter, and all correspondence
    concerning the application within 14 days of the notice of the
    amended petition.
    If the Agency does not provide all the
    information CIPS deems necessary CIPS should file another motion
    to the Board requesting what specific information is required.
    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.
    Adin. Code 105.102).
    The
    Chief Hearing Officer shall assign a hearing officer 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 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
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    regularly scheduled Board meeting date on or before the statutory
    or deferred decision deadline.
    In this case, the statutory
    decision deadline is June 7,
    1994; therefore the decision due
    date is June 2,
    1994.
    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.
    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, her by certify that the above order was adopted on the!7
    day of
    ,
    1994,
    by a vote of
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    Dorothy N. G~(n,Clerk
    Illinois Po)~utionControl Board

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