ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    March 21,
    1996
    LAND AND LAKES COMPANY,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB96-198
    )
    (Variance
    -
    Land)
    ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL
    )
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by C.A.
    Manning):
    On March 18,1996 Land And Lakes Company filed a petition for variance regarding its
    facility located in Dolton,
    Cook County,
    Illinois.
    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 hearing, 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 ofhearing 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 July
    16,
    1996
    (120 days from March 18,
    1996); the Board meeting immediately
    preceding the due date is
    scheduled for June 20,
    1996.
    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
    Iii.
    Adm.
    Code
    104.180) reciuire the Environmental Protection Agency to file its
    recommendation for
    disposition of the petition within 30 days of filing of the petition.
    2
    IT IS
    SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy M.
    Gunn, Clerk of the
    Illinois Pollutioi~
    Control Board,
    hereby certify that
    the
    above
    order
    was
    adopted
    on
    the
    ~‘/‘~
    day
    of /77
    4-i-c1’
    ,
    1996,
    by
    a
    vote
    of
    ~t4~Z,1~?.
    /~L~-~
    Dorothy M/ç~unn,Clerk
    Illinois Pi~i4’tionControl Board

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