ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    June
    2,
    1994
    STEPAN
    COMPANY,
    )
    Petitioner,
    v.
    )
    PCB 94—156
    )
    (Permit Appeal)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD:
    On May 23,
    1994, Stepan Company filed a petition for review
    of its permit for land application of sludge pursuant to 35 Iii.
    Adm. Code 309, regarding its Nilisdale Facility, located in Will
    County.
    The Nilisdale Facility treats its process wastewaters
    and stormwater in a
    permitted on—site wastewater treatment plant
    (“WWTP”).
    The WWTP’s sludge and lime softening sludge are land
    applied.
    The appeal challenges various special technical
    conditions imposed by the Illinois Environmental Protection
    Agency, and the two year length of the permit.
    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 Iii.
    Adm. Code 101.105).
    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
    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
    September 20,
    1994
    (120 days from May 23, 1994); the Board
    meeting immediately preceding the due date
    is scheduled for
    September 15,
    1994.
    2
    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.
    Adni. Code 105.102) require the Agency to file the entire
    Ag~ncv
    record of the permit application within
    14 days of notice
    of the petition.
    This order will not appear in the Board’s opinion volumes.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy N. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify t
    the above order was adopted on the~2~~’~
    day of
    ,
    1994, by
    a
    vote of
    _________________.
    ~
    ~
    Dorothy N. ~nn,
    Cle±~k
    Illinois pdlilution Control Board

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