ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    April 9, 1992
    LTV STEEL COMPANY,
    )
    )
    Petitioner,
    )
    v.
    )
    PCB 91—49
    )
    (Permit Appeal)
    ILLINOIS ~,ENVIRONNENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    )
    )
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD (by J. C. Marlin):
    This matter is before the Board on the parties’ March 16, 1992
    agreed motion to hold this permit appeal in abeyance. The parties
    state that the sole remaining issue in this Permit Appeal is the
    thermal limitations required by the Draft Permit. LTV has agreed
    to perform a thermal study of a section of the Calumet River, in
    conjunction with Acme Steel Company, a neighboring steel facility
    that has a similar permit appeal pending before the Board. LTV
    asserts that the results• of the thermal study will provide the
    basis for an adjusted standard petition that LTV and Acme Steel
    intend to file to adjust the thermal limitations currently set in
    their Permits that are on appeal. LTV Steel moves the Board to
    hold this permit appeal in abeyance pending the outcome of the
    thermal study and the outcome of the adjusted standard. Finally,
    LTV states that should the “third airport” be developed in the
    proposed Lake Calumet area, the facility that is the subject of
    this appeal would probably be demolished, rendering this appeal
    moot.
    The Board notes that, while decision in this matter is
    currently due on September 1, 1992, LTV apparently seeks an
    indefinite “stay” of this permit appeal. The Board will
    accordingly construe LTV’s motion as a motion for stay. The Board
    will not grant this request, particularly since the motion contains
    no detail concerning LTV’s projected timetable for completion of
    its thermal study; the Board has an obligation to bring permit
    appeals to a timely resolution. The Board will, however, stay this
    proceeding for a 60-day period, through May 25, 1992, at which time
    the parties are directed to file a status report. In the event the
    parties wish to seek an additional stay, any motion must be
    accompanied by an appropriate waiver of the Board’s decision
    deadline and information sufficient to allow the Board to determine
    the anticipated date for conclusion of this action.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
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    2—45
    2
    I, Dorothy M. Gunn, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify
    t1~.atthe..
    ~bove Order was adopted on the
    V~-
    day of __________________________, 1992, by a vote of
    7~-c
    .
    Control Board
    132—46

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