ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    January 21,
    1993
    THE GRIGOLEIT
    COMPANY,
    Petitioner
    v.
    )
    PCB 92—23
    (Permit Appeal)
    ILLINOIS
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Respondent.
    ORDER
    OF THE BOARD
    (by J. Anderson):
    On January 15,
    1993, The Grigoleit Company (Grigoleit) filed
    •a Joint Status Report in response to the Board’s November 19,
    1992 order in this matter and a motion to continue.
    On November
    17, 1992, Grigoeit
    provided a waiver of
    the
    decision deadline
    through April 30,
    1993.
    In its November 19,
    1992 order, the Board directed the
    parties to file status reports with the Board by
    January 15,
    1993.
    In its response, Grigoleit states
    that the Illinois
    Environmental Protection Agency
    (Agency) authorized Grigoleit to
    file its response as a joint status report.
    Grigoleit requests
    the Board to continue this matter and require
    the
    parti.s. to file
    a st~atusreport on or before February 15,
    1993.
    In support of
    it~request, Grigoleit states that
    it and the Agency continue to
    engage
    in settlement negotiations which would,
    if successful,
    culminate in the settlement
    of this case as well as the following
    three cases:
    PCB 90-135, The Grigoleit ComDany
    V.
    Illinois
    environmental Protection Aaency PCB 91—157,
    People
    of the
    State
    of Illinois v. The Griaoleit Company and PCB 92-110, In
    the
    Matter of Trade Secret Claim by The Grigoleit Company.
    Grigoleit adds that its written
    draft
    settlement
    was
    submitted to the Agency on December 6,
    1992, and that
    the Agency
    provided its written response to Grigoleit’s proposal on January
    6,
    1993.
    Grigoleit
    states that it is preparing a reply to the
    Agency and that the parties are continuing their settlement
    negotiations to resolve all four cases currently pending before
    the
    Board.
    We note that,
    in Grigoleit’s earlier status report of
    November 16,
    1992,
    it stated that
    it
    believed that the appeal
    o.f
    PCB 89-184 before the Fourth District Appellate Court
    (No. 4-92-
    0029), would also be resolved; the Board requests clarification
    from Grigoleit as to whether this is still the situation.
    We wish to point that the Board,
    in an October 29,
    1992
    order,
    reniinded the parties that they were obligated
    via a
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    September 21,
    1992 Board order, to contact the hearing officer if
    they wish to hold another hearing in
    this
    matter.
    The
    Board
    stated that it intended to make a final determination in this
    matter by the decision deadline (at that time December 11,
    1992)
    if there was no second hearing and if no waiver was forthcoming.
    Although the decision deadline is now April 30,
    1993, the Board
    again cautions the parties that the timing of settlement
    negotiations or desire for another hearing must take into account
    the
    Board’s intent to make a timely determination in this matter.
    In light of the above, the Board grants Grigoleit’s motion
    to continue.
    The parties are directed to tile status reports in
    this matter.
    In that the Board office will be closed on
    February
    15,
    such
    status
    reports
    are
    to
    be
    received
    by
    the
    Board
    no
    later
    than
    February 16,
    1993.
    IT IS SO
    ORDERED.
    I, Dorothy M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk
    of
    the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certify th
    the
    above order was adopted on
    the
    c~/~V
    day of
    ________________,
    1993, by a vote of
    Dorothy N. ~nn,
    Clerk
    Illinois PoUution Control Board
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